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In this Friday, June 13, 2008 file photo, tomatoes ripen on the vine in Hanover County, Va. Since a salmonella scare has caused many customers to shun what's normally a summer favorite, tomato farmers across the nation have had to plow under their fields and leave their crop to rot in packinghouses. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

FDA reports more cases of salmonella illnesses

AP - Sat Jul 5, 11:27 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The government on Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a record salmonella outbreak in which tomatoes are the leading suspect although investigators are testing other types of fresh produce.

  • Detainee asks judge to delay 1st Guantanamo trial AP - Thu Jul 3, 4:21 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Osama bin Laden's former driver asked a civilian judge Thursday to delay his military trial.

  • Nation's capital: An ever-changing American mirror AP - Thu Jul 3, 2:50 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The 32nd president stares resolutely from his wheelchair, cast in the kind of immortal bronze reserved for the leaders we remember as distant paragons of national virtue. Yet something seems ... amiss.

  • Solar application moratorium called off AP - Wed Jul 2, 6:21 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The government said Wednesday it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands.

  • US contradicts itself over its own ID theft advice AP - Wed Jul 2, 1:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The government doesn't have to look very far to see who's ignoring its advice on preventing identity theft.

  • US-supplied food: Another US-NKorea deal AP - Tue Jul 1, 9:17 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Relief workers distributing thousands of tons of U.S.-supplied food in North Korea have unprecedented freedom of access in the insular country to ensure the food goes to the people who need it, says the project's chief U.S. negotiator.

  • Post office announces reorganization AP - Mon Jun 30, 5:34 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Postal Service on Monday announced a reorganization that officials expect to streamline agency operations.

  • Judges cite nonsense poem in Guantanamo case AP - Mon Jun 30, 3:03 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.

  • Guests for the Sunday TV news shows AP - Sat Jun 28, 8:00 AM ET

    Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

  • In this June 6, 2008 file photo, Roosevelt (Mich.) High School's Cara Smock, left, and Allison Hubble work on geometry. A majority of Americans think schools are placing too much emphasis on the wrong subjects, and more than half think they're doing just a fair job in preparing children for the work force or giving them the practical skills they need to survive as adults, according to an Associated Press poll released Friday. (AP Photo/Amy E. Powers, file)
    Poll: Schools not properly preparing kids AP - Fri Jun 27, 3:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - It's not much of a report card.

  • Environmentalists sue to overturn EPA water rule AP - Fri Jun 27, 3:33 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A Florida environmental group sued the Bush administration Friday over a recent decision to allow water to be transferred without a permit.

  • Senate clears banker to go to Fed AP - Fri Jun 27, 3:11 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Elizabeth Duke on Friday to become a member of the Federal Reserve, which has been battling housing, credit and financial crises with a short staff.

  • In this April 27, 2007 file photo, an employee stocks some beer kegs into a cooler at the Little Red Barn liquor store in Belmar, N.J. Many of the nation's estimated 10.8 million underage drinkers are turning to their parents or other adults for free alcohol, a government survey found. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)
    Study: Many teens get alcohol from adults AP - Thu Jun 26, 5:09 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Many of the nation's estimated 10.8 million underage drinkers are turning to their parents or other adults for free alcohol.

  • In this April 3, 2008 file photo, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. With inflation moving higher on its worry list, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, June 25, 2008, ending nearly a year of cuts to bolster the economy, and hinted that the next direction for rates could be up. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)
    Fed signals aggressive rate cutting is done AP - Thu Jun 26, 3:06 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve's aggressive period of cutting interest rates to keep the country from falling into a recession is over. That point is in general agreement. The trouble starts when you try to figure out what period the Fed has now entered.

  • An employee at the National Security Agency (NSA) sits at her computer terminal in the Threat Operations Center in a file photo. The House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that could shield phone companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits for their participation in the warrantless surveillance program begun by President Bush after the September 11 attacks. REUTERS/Jason Reed
    Court: NSA can refuse to say if lawyers wiretapped AP - Wed Jun 25, 7:18 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their phones were tapped as part of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

  • New video of mistreated cows released AP - Wed Jun 25, 6:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - An animal advocacy group released undercover video footage Wednesday of sick or injured dairy cows that it contends were mistreated at an auction facility where cattle are sold for slaughter.

  • Judge lowers expectations in Indian trust suit AP - Wed Jun 25, 6:49 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - A federal judge indicated Wednesday that American Indians who have filed a lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of trust funds may not be awarded the $47 billion they have said they are owed.

  • Environmentalists to sue EPA over park haze AP - Wed Jun 25, 6:31 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Environmentalists took steps on Wednesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to compel states to clean up the haze plaguing the nation's parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.

  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives at New Chitose International Airport in Chitose, near Sapporo, Sunday, July 6, 2008. The G8 leaders from the United States, Japan, Russia, France, Britain, Canada, Italy and Germany begin a three-day summit on Monday. The top issues are expected to be global warming and soaring oil and food prices. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
    Report: Climate change linked to national security AP - Wed Jun 25, 9:39 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments in political hot spots, all of which could affect U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies.

  • Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, and Gregg Doud, an economist with the National Cattleman's Beef Association, at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2008. Gov. Perry is asking for a partial waiver from the E.P.A. on their renewable fuels standard mandates. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
    Texas governor trying to slash ethanol production AP - Tue Jun 24, 5:20 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Texas Gov. Rick Perry, supported by livestock producers concerned about rising feed prices, stepped up his effort Tuesday to pressure the federal government to cut ethanol production requirements in half.