By Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - Two contract employees for the State Department have been fired and a third disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's passport file, and the department is investigating ...

By Mary Anne Ostrom "Chill out. " That's the advice former President Bill Clinton gave Democrats concerned about the extended nomination fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in a speech Sunday at the state Democratic convention in ...

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  Does a vampire have guilt (except for the ones in an Anne Rice novel)?  Feelings like compassion, empathy, contrition, and regret has been vanquished from the Bush psyche ... Tom-Tom, Mickey -- Since you respond to my rehetorical ...

By Anne D'Innocenzio Associated Press NEW YORK -- Here's a sign of how shaky the economy has become: Wal-Mart says its shoppers are redeeming their holiday gift cards for basic items -- pasta sauce, diapers, laundry detergent -- instead of iPods or ...

Leave God out of it Leave God out of it Leave God out of it Leave God out of it Recently, The Nation magazine ran a front page article about "The New Atheists" - Toward a Revival of Secular Humanism It discussed the leaders in... ...

Anne Schuchat, who heads the CDC's national center for immunization and respiratory disease ... Doctors nationwide may have had some inkling of problems with Merck's Hib vaccine as early as one month ago, when Merck notified the CDC that its ...

By Anne D'Innocenzio Associated Press NEW YORK -- After facing recall after recall of millions of Chinese-made items, the nation's biggest toy sellers are imposing stricter measures on their suppliers -- including tougher standards for lead content ...

By Anne Gearan Associated Press PARIS -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday militant Palestinians, not Israel, are to blame for deteriorating conditions in the sealed-off Gaza Strip, as the United States announced it intends to donate ...

Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the purpose of the trip was to "reaffirm the president's commitment to the current efforts toward the two-state solution and efforts to strengthen Palestinian institutions ... Appearing with Abbas in ...

But if nothing appears within a week, the child will not be affected, said Anne Schuchat, director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Children who were vaccinated weeks or months ago are also protected, she ...

In addition to using his star appeal to raise money for Clinton, Buffett also appeared with Clinton in joint interviews on two cable TV business channels, CNBC and the new Fox Business Channel. The Buffett fundraising and media spree in San ...

The image and the report of the protester unfurling a black banner - the Olympic rings replaced by handcuffs - appeared around the world in newspapers, on websites and on television broadcasts ... "The very idea that they will be able to ...

By Jonathan S Landay; Warren P Strobel ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The Bush administration is pressing the opposition leaders who defeated Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to allow the former general to retain his position, a move that Western ...

By Robert Burns and Anne Gearan Associated Press MOSCOW -- Outgoing President Vladimir Putin, in talks with President Bush's two top foreign policy aides, embraced on Monday a U ... Putin, whose hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, is due ...