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 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
Economy makes McCain's job difficult
PUEBLO, Col. – Sen. John McCain is entering the final month of the presidential campaign with his prospects weakened by the deepening financial crisis and persistent doubts about his choice of running mate, but his game plan is clear: to sow doubts about Sen. Barack Obama by portraying him as liberal and unready to lead.
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Simpson convicted of robbery, kidnapping
LAS VEGAS – O.J. Simpson, who went from American sports idol to celebrity-in-exile after he was acquitted of murder charges in 1995, was found guilty last night of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room.
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New FBI intelligence-gathering rules worry rights groups
WASHINGTON – Justice Department officials released new guidelines yesterday that empower FBI agents to use intrusive techniques to gather intelligence within the United States, alarming civil liberties groups and Democratic lawmakers who worry that they could help bring about privacy violations and other abuses.
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Talks over hijacked ship have hit a reef
NAIROBI, Kenya – It is one thing to haggle over a price for a pirate's ransom. But it is apparently a whole other matter to figure out who, exactly, should pay it.
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7 Russian peacekeepers die in South Ossetia car bomb blast
MOSCOW – A car bomb in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali killed seven Russian peacekeepers and two others yesterday, raising tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory.
- Tightening credit remains concern to state leaders
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's top finance officials reacted cautiously yesterday to congressional approval of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package, warning that the nation's tight credit market still presents considerable challenges for the state.
- More bone fragments found at crash site
MAMMOTH LAKES – Investigators discovered three more bone fragments yesterday while combing the high Sierra Nevada site where Steve Fossett's airplane smashed into the side of a mountain in the Eastern Sierra, authorities said.
- REGION UPDATE
Congresswomen's brother is missing
LOS ANGELES – The brother of California U.S. Reps. Loretta and Linda Sanchez and his girlfriend were missing yesterday after their 26-foot boat was apparently destroyed, possibly in a collision with a barge outside the nation's largest port complex.
- Readers blast newspapers for DVD critical of Muslims
NEW YORK – Newspapers that carried an advertising supplement in recent weeks containing a DVD critical of radical Muslims have faced complaints from readers and questions about whether newspapers should offer a platform to everyone willing to pay for distribution.
- Experts: Tiny amounts of melamine OK
WASHINGTON – Tiny traces of melamine, the chemical that has set off a global food-safety scare, are not harmful in most foods, except baby formula, government experts said yesterday.
- NATION UPDATE
EPA seeks input on tainted-water plan
WASHINGTON – Federal regulators said yesterday they don't plan to try to rid drinking water supplies of a toxic rocket-fuel ingredient that's been found in 35 states, including California.
- After apparently shooting self, widow, 90, gets eviction reprieve
AKRON, Ohio – At the age of 90, Addie Polk found herself in foreclosure this week, about to be forced from the home she has lived in for nearly 40 years.
- THE FIGHT FOR IRAQ
Council ratifies law allowing provincial vote
BAGHDAD – Iraq's presidential council yesterday ratified a law that paves the way for the first provincial elections in four years, officials said.
- WORLD UPDATE
Major arms sale sought for Taiwan
WASHINGTON – The Bush administration announced plans yesterday to sell up to $6.5 billion in arms to Taiwan, a decision sure to anger Taiwan's rival, China, and one that could complicate stalled North Korean disarmament efforts.
- Mexico considers drug rehab, not jail
MEXICO CITY – Mexican President Felipe Calderón has an offer for drug users: Go into rehab, stay out of jail. Calderón sent lawmakers an initiative Thursday that would give people caught with less than 2 grams of marijuana, half a gram of cocaine, 40 milligrams of methamphetamine or other drugs the choice of treatment.
- Skype's ally in China saves chats
HONG KONG – Savvy Internet users in China began avoiding the version of Skype offered by its Chinese partner two years ago, but news that it filtered and saved text messages has sparked new worries about the global firm's commitment to privacy.
- Boy goes on killing spree at zoo in Outback; 13 animals are dead
SYDNEY, Australia – A 7-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director said yesterday.
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