National Stories:
DETROIT — General Motors completed an unusually quick exit from bankruptcy protection on Friday with ambitions of making money and building cars people are eager to buy.
- In Ghana, Obama marks Africa's promise, problems
- Report: Bush program extended beyond wiretapping
- Hispanic rights group at center of Sotomayor fight
- California's creditors look to options for IOUs
- Obama admin: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes
- House Dems want to tax the rich for health care
House Democrats want to tax the rich to pay for health care Trade deficit drops to $26B Fact Check: GOP joins spin game over stimulus jobs Suspected US missile strike kills three in NW Pakistan Families grapple with anger at gravedigging scheme Somali Islamist insurgents behead 7 people Economic disaster averted, Obama declares at summit Report: Bush surveillance program was massive 4-day workweek creates new volunteers in Utah Death toll from China’s ethnic riots hits 184 Dispute over vet’s protest erupts in Wisconsin town Animal advocates concerned about owners abandoning horses in the wild
WASHINGTON — Key House Democrats decided Friday to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for health care legislation, capping an up-and-down week for President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit fell to the lowest level in more than nine years in May as exports posted a small gain while the weak American economy pushed imports down for a 10th straight month.
EDITOR’S NOTE — An occasional look at assertions by government officials and how well they adhere to the facts.
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike hit a Taliban communication center in the country’s northwest late Friday, killing at least three people and wounding three more, intelligence officials said.
ALSIP, Ill. — Hundreds of horrified relatives grappling with guilt and anger wandered around a historic black cemetery near Chicago on Friday searching for their loved ones’ graves after former cemetery workers were accused of dumping hundreds of unearthed corpses in a scheme to resell their plots.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somali Islamist fighters on Friday beheaded seven prisoners accused of abandoning the Muslim faith and spying for the government in the largest mass execution since the Islamists were pushed from power two and a half years ago.
L’AQUILA, Italy — Lasting worldwide recovery “is still a ways off,” President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at the conclusion of a global summit that a disastrous economic collapse apparently has been averted.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration built an unprecedented surveillance operation to pull in mountains of information far beyond the warrantless wiretapping previously acknowledged, a team of federal inspectors general reported Friday, questioning the legal basis for the effort but shielding almost all details on grounds they’re still too secret to reveal.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah, a state that has always been a leader in the percentage of residents who volunteer, appears to have inadvertently found a way to boost volunteerism: a four-day workweek.
URUMQI, China — China raised the death toll from riots in its Xinjiang region to 184, state media said Saturday, giving an ethnic breakdown of the dead for the first time after communal violence broke out in this far western city.
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it — an Iraq war veteran — claims the officers trespassed and stole his property.
RENO, Nev. — A domestic horse found loose in Nevada with the brand cut out of its hide is drawing outrage from equine advocates concerned about the growing number of horses abandoned in the wild.
