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  1. People convicted in the Abramoff investigation AP - Fri Sep 5, 3:25 AM ET Avg. Rating: 5.0

    Lawmakers, lobbyists, Bush administration officials, congressional staffers and businessmen caught up in the Jack Abramoff public corruption probe:

  2. The dollar struck a near 11-month high versus the euro on news of slumping industrial output in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, and as the market awaited key US jobs data(AFP/Getty Images/File/Annie Tritt)
    Jobless rate jumps to 5-year high of 6.1 percent AP - 7 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.7

    WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, dramatic proof of the mounting damage a deeply troubled economy is inflicting on workers and businesses alike.

  3. A strand of DNA is seen in an undated handout image. (National Institutes of Health/Handout/Reuters)
    Gene trawl shows curing cancer harder than thought Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 3:56 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer experts who probed every gene in tumors from two of the hardest-to-treat cancers found that cancer is much more complicated than anyone thought -- and say they found why a cure is so unlikely after a tumor has spread.

  4. Remains of 3 sailors from Pearl Harbor identified AP - Fri Sep 5, 5:08 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.6

    PORTLAND, Ore. - Two-thirds of a century ago, Kathleen Wyman drove her brother to California to join the Navy. From there, he shipped out to the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.

  5. Official: Egyptian ship hijacked near Somalia AP - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.6

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members has been hijacked by pirates off Somalia's coast, the 10th vessel to be seized in less than two months, a global maritime watchdog said Friday.

  6. Intruders shot after Texas couple wrests shotgun AP - Thu Sep 4, 6:03 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    BLUE MOUND, Texas - When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn't think twice.

  7. FDA orders stronger warnings for 4 arthritis drugs AP - Thu Sep 4, 5:28 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections.

  8. This image provided by NOAA was taken at 12:01 a.m. EDT Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. At 11 p.m. EDT, its center was 540 miles south of Wilmington, N.C., and was moving northwest at 14 mph with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. Rain and wind from Hanna could start as early as Friday night in the South, where some residents shuttered houses and stocked up on food and sandbags, coastal parks closed, and schools canceled events and changed sports schedules. Tropical storm watches and warnings were issued from Georgia to near Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/NOAA) .
    Southeast braces for Hanna as Ike strengthens AP - Fri Sep 5, 4:03 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    WILMINGTON, N.C. - Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine.

  9. The flagship of the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, the USS Mount Whitney, arriving to the Georgian port Poti, with more aid for Georgia, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
    US warship carries aid to Georgian port of Poti AP - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.5

    POTI, Georgia - The flagship of the U.S. Navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored outside the key Georgian port of Poti on Friday, bringing in tons of humanitarian aid to a port still partially occupied by hundreds of Russian troops.

  10. Supporters of Pakistan People's Party celebrate the nomination of Asif Ali Zardari for presidential candidate in Multan September 1, 2008. (Asim Tanveer/Reuters)
    Pakistani officials report missile strike AP - Fri Sep 5, 6:04 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.5

    DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan - An explosion possibly caused by a missile strike killed five suspected foreign militants near the Afghan border on Friday, Pakistani officials said.

  11. Songstress and MAC AIDS Fund spokesperson Fergie strikes a pose following performances about the dangers of HIV and prevention methods from a group of New York City youth at Safe Space, a homeless drop-in center, on September 3, 2008. Fergie's visit is part of a launch of a new $2.3 million youth-focused funding initiative from the MAC AIDS Fund, designed to combat the spread of the disease among 15- to 24-year-olds who account for more than half of all new infections. Money for the new initiative was raised through sales of Fergie's limited edition MAC Viva Glam lip gloss, one of eight products in the makeup line that dedicates 100 percent of the sales price to the MAC AIDS Fund.
    Gene may hold key to neutralizing HIV: U.S. study Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 3:40 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - The AIDS virus is especially hard to fight because few people develop antibodies to neutralize it, but U.S. researchers said on Thursday they have found an immunity gene that may offer a new way to fight back.

  12. In this Jan. 3, 2006 file photo, lobbyist Jack Abramoff leaves Federal Court in Washington. From the time Jack Abramoff began cooperating with the FBI, the once powerful lobbyist knew the day would come when he would have to answer for a lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors. 'I have been thinking about this moment literally for years,' the disgraced power broker wrote a federal judge Wednesday about his sentencing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
    'Broken man' Abramoff gets 4 years in prison AP - 1 hour, 55 minutes ago Avg. Rating: 4.4

    WASHINGTON - Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006.

  13. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (L) stands with his attorney Juan Mateo in Wayne County Circuit Court as he accepts a plea agreement and resigns from office in Detroit, Michigan September 4, 2008. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)
    Detroit mayor pleads guilty, to leave office Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 9:34 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty on Thursday to obstruction of justice in a plea agreement that forces him from office and caps a scandal that had threatened to spill over into the U.S. presidential campaign in a key battleground state.

  14. "Cremated" father reunited with family Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 11:43 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    LONDON (Reuters) - A father mistakenly declared dead after going missing eight years ago has been reunited with his family after his son spotted him on television, police said on Thursday.

  15. A Perseid meteor streaks towards the horizon during the annual Persied meteor shower in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, August 12, 2008. Perseids meteors are bits of debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle which burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. REUTERS/Doug Murray (UNITED STATES)
    Unusual asteriod orbit sheds light on comets' birth: researchers AFP - Thu Sep 4, 2:16 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Canadian, French and US astronomers have found a strange asteroid with an odd orbit which could help explain the origin of comets, the National Research Council of Canada reported Thursday.

  16. Residents cross a road cut off by flooding caused by Tropical Storm Hanna in Gonaives, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. The city was flooded by Hanna, that swirled over Haiti for four days, dumping massive amounts of water and leaving at least 61 dead in its wake. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city AP - Fri Sep 5, 12:24 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    GONAIVES, Haiti - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago.

  17. Actress Anne Hathaway arrives for the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, September 3, 2008. (Max Rossi/Reuters)
    Hathaway's dark role sparks early awards buzz Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 1:17 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    VENICE (Reuters) - Anne Hathaway's dark role in "Rachel Getting Married," which premiered this week in Venice, is generating early Oscar buzz, with several critics hailing her departure from fairytale and comic characters.

  18. Iranian women attend a prayer ceremony in Tehran on Friday, Aug. 8, 2008. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)
    Iran bill to ease polygamy angers women AP - Thu Sep 4, 2:22 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    TEHRAN, Iran - A bill that would allow Iranian men to take additional wives without the consent of their first wife has angered women and the country's top justice official, who say it would undermine women's rights and could be a government attempt to more deeply enshrine its strict Islamic interpretation into law.

  19. "Robin Hoods" steal at the store, give to the poor? Reuters - Thu Sep 4, 11:44 AM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek anarchists stormed a supermarket on Thursday and handed out food for free in the latest of a wave of raids provoked by soaring consumer prices.

  20. The Media Descend to a New Low The Weekly Standard - Thu Sep 4, 1:19 PM ET Avg. Rating: 4.4

    Washington (The Daily Standard) - Time's Mark Halperin has posted an advance copy of the cover of US Weekly magazine, the tabloid published by Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner. That cover shows a smiling Sarah Palin, holding her youngest son Trig. The screaming headline: "Babies, Lies and Scandal: John McCain's Vice President."Wenner has contributed $5300 to Obama's campaign since 2007.

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