Court: Texas had no right to take polygamists' kids

AP - 37 minutes ago

SAN ANGELO, Texas - A state appellate court has ruled that child welfare officials had no right to seize more than 400 children living at a polygamist sect's ranch.

Senator Robert Byrd, L,  (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and ranking member Sen. Thad Cochran, R, (R-MI) talk with Charles Kieffer, majority staff director, during a committee meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington May 15, 2008. The committee met to discuss a supplementary budget bill that would continue to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.    REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque   (UNITED STATES)

Senate passes Iraq war funding bill with add-ons

AP - 47 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans have broken with President Bush to help Democrats add support for veterans and the unemployed to a bill paying for another year of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Republican presidential nominee US Senator John McCain (R), accompanied by Florida Governor Charlie Crist, speaks to the press in March 2008 in West Palm Beach, Florida. McCain sent the rumor mill about his vice presidential pick into overdrive Thursday while Democrat Barack Obama was said to have started his own search for a White House running mate.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)

Polls, VP talk, enliven US general election mix

AFP - 41 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The pace quickened in the nascent US general election Thursday, with battleground states in focus and Republican John McCain and top Democrat Barack Obama stoking running-mate speculation.

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