By Sophie Kanter Washington, DC 28 July 2006 watch Bowling for Soup report Bowling for Soup Bowling for Soup is one of the hottest new punk bands on the American music scene. The musicians met while attending Midwestern State University. They have r...
Washington, DC 28 July 2006 watch Heat Wave report Eleven days of triple digit temperatures in California are taking a toll on the state's agricultural industry. Meteorologists expect the deadly heat wave that has killed at least 60 people could sub...
By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 28 July 2006 watch Medical Secrets report Submersible in search for rare plant and animals in the deep Oceanographers using deep water submersibles believe they are rapidly getting closer to creating drugs that can great...
By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 28 July 2006 A senior minister of the interim government of Somalia was slain Friday as he was leaving prayers at a mosque in the interim government's provincial base, Baidoa. Many fear the attack will further destabilize the...
By Dan Robinson Washington 28 July 2006 A bipartisan congressional panel reports that, while reforms of the U.S. intelligence community approved in 2004 have helped protect against new terrorist attacks, some serious weaknesses remain. Release of th...
By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 27 July 2006 Nineteen Cabinet ministers in Somalia's fragile secular interim government in Baidoa resigned Thursday, possibly in an attempt to facilitate a power-sharing deal with rival Islamists. Meanwhile, the Islamists str...
By David Gollust State Department 27 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to decide Friday whether to pay a return trip to the Middle East to try to help broker a durable cease-fire in the Lebanon conflict. The Secretary has been consult...
By Jim Malone Washington 27 July 2006 Demonstrators gather for immigrant rights rally in Chicago Immigration is expected to be a significant issue in the November congressional elections in the United States. ---- Immigration reform can be an emotio...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 27 July 2006 President Bush says he wants to see an end to the fighting between Israeli forces and Lebanese-based Hezbollah militants as soon as possible. But Mr. Bush is cautioning against a fake peace. --------- George...
By Andre de Nesnera Washington 27 July 2006 Smoke rises from extensive Israeli air strikes as Lebanese motorists speed away The conflict in southern Lebanon continues as Israeli forces battle Hezbollah guerillas. In this report from Washington, Seni...
By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 27 July 2006 Southern Lebanon has been pounded by more than two weeks of Israeli airstrikes and artillery, which have leveled villages and forced roughly half a million people to flee their homes. The Israeli mili...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 27 July 2006 U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton defended his record before a Senate panel Thursday, with just months left before his recess appointment to the world body expires. President Bush wants Bolto...
By Meredith Buel Washington 27 July 2006 Fierce fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants has entered its third week, in a conflict that has killed more than 400 Lebanese and at least 50 Israelis. Middle East analysts and Israeli milit...
By Scott Stearns Washington 27 July 2006 President Bush has reauthorized key civil rights protections for African American voters in southern states. President Bush, center, surrounded by members of Congress signs legislation extending Voting Rights...
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 27 July 2006 In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a fire has broken out at the security camp of a former rebel leader just as he was holding a large campaign rally in the capital Kinshasa ahead of Sunday's post-war electio...
