States bypass Congress, hike minimum wage
By Carey Gillam
As Congress battles over whether or not to raise the minimum wage, Main Street America is moving on.
More than a dozen U.S. states, including Massachusetts, Michigan, Arkansas…
Dems to Bush: ‘Bring the troops home’
By Vicki Allen
Trying to patch over their differences before November elections, top congressional Democrats urged President George W. Bush on Monday to start pulling U.S. troops from…
As insurgents target Iraqi civilains, U.S. death rate drops
By Will Dunham
The U.S. military death toll in Iraq fell for a third straight month in July to one of the lower levels of the 3-year-old war despite …
Nixon considered nuking North Vietnam
President Nixon, in his first year in office and eager to end an unpopular war that killed tens of thousands of U.S. troops, considered using nuclear weapons against the North…
GOP blows opportunity in California
By DAN WALTERS
Sacramento Bee
With the California Democratic Party drifting leftward, Republicans had an …
‘An example of American democracy’
By KEVIN SITES
Yahoo! News
TYRE, Lebanon -- With a targeted missile strike in the center of downtown Tyre,…
Administration claims support for Iraq
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
A number of nations have expressed a willingness to help boost international economic support for Iraq, the Bush administration said Monday.
Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert…
Big Media? Not in Uncle Sam’s eyes
By FRANK BASS
Maybe "Big Media" isn't so big in the eyes of government after all.
Some of the nation's largest news media companies, including The Associated Press, were…
Offshore accounts cost U.S. billions in tax revenue
By MARY DALRYMPLE
Offshore tax havens hold trillions of dollars in assets and allow wealthy Americans to avoid paying $40 billion to $70 billion in taxes each…
Investigated Gitmo general retires with honors
By ROBERT BURNS
An Army general who supervised the detention of insurgents in Iraq and ran the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terror suspects was lauded at a retirement…
