Politics Jan 14 Bold Suicide Attack on Kabul Hotel Kills 6 Four heavily armed militants attacked a hotel popular with foreigners in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, killing at least six people in a brazen Taliban-backed attack apparently targeted at Western workers, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.
Politics Jan 14 Kenya’s Lawmakers to Reconvene Despite Continued Unrest Kenya's feuding political parties are bracing for a contentious week as the sharply divided Parliament reconvenes and opposition leaders plan mass demonstrations.
Science Jan 14 Scientists Grow Rat Heart from Transplanted Cells Researchers grew beating rat hearts in a lab using heart cells from newborn rats grafted to the scaffolding of hearts from dead rats, according to a study released Sunday.
Science Jan 11 Switchgrass Yields Energy-efficient, Clean Fuel, Study Finds Switchgrass, a prairie grass grown on marginal farmland and processed into ethanol, can produce five times more energy than it takes to grow the crop, according to a new study.
Economy Jan 11 Bank of America to Buy Mortgage Lender for $4B Bank of America Corp. said Friday that it has agreed to pay $4 billion in stock for Countrywide Financial -- rescuing the battered lender that has come to represent the excesses of the subprime mortgage market.
Nation Jan 10 U.S. Considers Adding 3,000 Marines to Fight in Afghanistan The Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan to bolster efforts to thwart another expected Taliban offensive in the spring, military officials said.
Politics Jan 09 Justices Appear Hesitant to Overturn Voter ID Law In a politically sensitive case, the Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to strike down the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before they cast ballots.
Politics Jan 09 Obama Secures Coveted Culinary Workers Union Nod in Nev. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination got a boost Wednesday when he picked up the endorsement of the 60,000-member Culinary Workers Union in Nevada, 10 days before that state's caucus.
Politics Jan 09 N.H. Voters Leave Both Parties in Search for Front-Runner New Hampshire's primary voters rejected the winners of earlier states' contests on Tuesday, breathing life into two presidential campaigns that had been showing recent signs of faltering.
Science Jan 09 Agency Delays Decision on Polar Bear Listing The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service postponed a recommendation originally due Wednesday on listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act due to changes in its habitat from global warming.