WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats have cleared the way for a pivotal floor vote on health care overhaul as early as the weekend, after tweaking their 1,990-page bill to crack down harder on insurance companies.
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Nairobi/Malabo - Oil-rich Equatorial Guinea goes to the polls Sunday in what observers say is a sham election designed to rubber stamp the rule of long-term president Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Obiang, who seized power from his...
By MALCOLM FOSTER Associated Press Writer TOKYO (AP) - Japanese flocked to a large gymnasium in central Tokyo in recent weeks to see what for them was an unusual sight: senior bureaucrats being grilled over their budget...
The medical student who died in a Utah cave was the third spelunker in recent years to get stuck in the same tiny crevice but the only one die - an outcome that devastated the dozens of rescuers who worked for more than a...
Windhoek — Polling stations around the country are ready for today and tomorrow's presidential and National Assembly elections. Yesterday, the polling station at ONE of Namibia's biggest logistical operations gets into full...