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Karzai, Abdullah tie election with 10 percent of votes tallied

Tuesday, Aug. 25,2009 11:58 p.m.

Afghanistan’s election commission said President Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah both have roughly 40 percent of the nationwide vote for president with 10 percent of ballots in.

Obama keeps Bernanke Federal Reserve chairman for 2nd term

Tuesday, Aug. 25,2009 11:56 p.m.

President Barack Obama has announced he wants Ben Bernanke to get a second four-year term as head of the Federal Reserve.

Hurricane Bill downgraded after leaving 2 dead

Monday, Aug. 24,2009 11 p.m.

The remnants of Hurricane Bill moved out into the Atlantic, forecasters said Monday, a day after the storm’s powerful winds churned up waves that were blamed in the deaths of at least two people on the East Coast.

Malaysia delays caning of woman who drank beer

Monday, Aug. 24,2009 10:59 p.m.

Officials said the caning of a Muslim model who was apprehended for drinking beer has been postponed until after the Islamic fasting month.

Iraqi police: Bombs kill 11 southeast of Baghdad

Monday, Aug. 24,2009 10:59 p.m.

Bombs attached to two minibuses have exploded southeast of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, an Iraqi police official said Monday.

College financial aid shrinking as demand booms

Wednesday, Aug. 12,2009 7:29 p.m.

MADISON, Wis. – Struggling with budget shortfalls that reach into the billions, several states are making deep cuts in college financial aid programs, including those that provide a vital source of cash for students who most need the money.

US, Swiss reach deal on secret bank accounts

Wednesday, Aug. 12,2009 7:28 p.m.

MIAMI – The U.S. government and Swiss banking giant UBS AG have reached a long-awaited agreement in a case about secret Swiss bank accounts for alleged American tax evaders, lawyers for both sides told a federal judge Wednesday.

JFK's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at 88

Tuesday, Aug. 11,2009 9:57 a.m.

HYANNIS, Mass. – President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died Tuesday morning, her family said in a statement. She was 88.

Homeless Holocaust survivor leaves university 100K

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:56 p.m.

JERUSALEM – Hebrew University has received a surprise donation of more than $100,000 from an unexpected benefactor – a woman who survived the Nazi Holocaust and appeared to be destitute, a university official said Sunday.

Typhoon Morakot forces evacuation of 1 million Chinese

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:54 p.m.

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.

Health-care outbursts foreshadow a hot August

Sunday, Aug. 9,2009 7:52 p.m.

DES MOINES, Iowa – Loud outbursts, hot tempers and pleas for civility at town hall meetings around the country Saturday foreshadowed a long, hot August as Democratic lawmakers returning home faced resistance to proposals to reform the nation’s costly health-care system.

President Barack Obama looks on as his Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday May 26, 2009.

Sotomayor sworn in

Saturday, Aug. 8,2009 11:11 a.m.

WASHINGTON – It's Justice Sotomayor now.

Senate confirms Sotomayor for Supreme Court

By Julie Hirschfeld Davis · Thursday, Aug. 6,2009 4:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court.

US journalists return home after North Korean pardon

Wednesday, Aug. 5,2009 6:46 p.m.

BURBANK, Calif. – Two American journalists freed by North Korea returned home to the United States on Wednesday for a jubilant, emotional reunion with family members and friends they hadn’t seen in nearly five months.

Florida Bay’s ecology on the brink of collapse

Wednesday, Aug. 5,2009 6:45 p.m.

ISLAMORADA, Fla. – Florida Bay is a sprawling estuary at the state’s southern tip, covering about three times the area of New York City.

Novartis starts yearlong swine flu vaccine testing

Wednesday, Aug. 5,2009 6:44 p.m.

LONDON – Swiss drugmaker Novartis has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people in the company’s first human tests, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Police searching for suspect in Tel Aviv gay club shooting

Sunday, Aug. 2,2009 6:02 p.m.

TEL AVIV, Israel – Hundreds of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed two people at a youth club in the worst ever attack on homosexuals in Israel.

Off to Africa, Clinton to pledge new military aid to combat extremists

Sunday, Aug. 2,2009 6:01 p.m.

WASHINGTON – On a seven-nation tour of Africa this week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will pledge more U.S. assistance, including military aid, to Somalia’s shaky government as it fights for survival against Islamist extremists.

Philippines mourns democracy icon

Sunday, Aug. 2,2009 6 p.m.

MANILA, Philippines – Military honor guards carried former President Corazon Aquino’s flag-draped casket to a school gym Saturday for public viewing, as Filipinos mourned the beloved democracy icon who swept away a dictator and fought off seven coup attempts.

Nigerian military ignored warnings of militant sect violence

Sunday, Aug. 2,2009 5:59 p.m.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigerian authorities ignored dozens of warnings about a violent Islamist sect until it attacked police stations and government buildings last week in a bloodbath that killed more than 700 people, Muslim clerics and an army official said.

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