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Phelps On Relay Team
Michael Phelps is named to the 4x100-meter freestyle relay team that will compete in Sunday's final, keeping alive his quest for a possible eight Olympic gold medals. | 8 |
V. Williams Wins Opening Match
Defending gold medalist Venus Williams overpowers Melinda Czink of Hungary 6-1, 6-2 in the opening match of the Athens Games' tennis tournament. | 8 |
Floridians Return to Storm-Ravaged Homes (AP)
AP - After getting a first look at the widespread damage left behind by Hurricane Charley, Florida residents were faced with the arduous task of sorting through the wreckage, and for some, starting over again. | 12 |
Charley's Force Took Experts by Surprise (AP)
AP - Hurricane Charley's 145-mph force took forecasters by surprise and showed just how shaky a science it still is to predict a storm's intensity — even with all the latest satellite and radar technology. | 12 |
Charley Grinds Through Coastal Carolinas (AP)
AP - A weakening Tropical Storm Charley sloshed through North Carolina's eastern counties on Saturday, doing little more than damaging trees and causing power outages after devastating the west coast of Florida. | 12 |
Bush Plans to Cut Forces in Europe, Asia (AP)
AP - President Bush has decided to bring home tens of thousands of U.S. troops from posts around the world — most of them in Europe and Asia — plus 100,000 of their family members and support personnel, U.S. officials said Saturday. | 12 |
Wildfire Sweeps by Old Calif. Mining Town (AP)
AP - A wind-fueled wildfire roared through an old mining town near Redding on Sunday, destroying 20 homes and forcing nearly 125 residents to flee, officials said. The blaze broke out Saturday afternoon and quickly grew to 2,500 acres, sweeping through the mountain community of French Gulch, about 20 miles east of Redding, said Linda Galvan, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. | 12 |
Memorial Service Held for Lori Hacking (AP)
AP - Family and friends of Lori Hacking gathered Saturday for a memorial service to remember the woman whom authorities believe was slain by her husband while she slept. | 12 |
'American Taliban' Lawyer Seeks Reversal (AP)
AP - The attorney for American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh says Lindh's case should be reconsidered now that another U.S. citizen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield may soon be released. | 12 |
McGreevey's Missteps Aided in Downfall (AP)
AP - From liberal Massachusetts to conservative Arizona, gay politicians have gone public and survived. New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey's decision to come out on live television could have made him the most prominent among them — the nation's first openly gay governor. | 12 |
Judge Nixes Pa. Clergy Sex Abuse Lawsuits (AP)
AP - Seventeen adults who sued the Philadelphia archdiocese for alleged child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy waited too long to file suit, a judge ruled. | 12 |
Greek Community in NYC Celebrates Olympics (AP)
AP - Inside the Athens Cafe in Astoria, Queens — the neighborhood at the heart of New York City's Greek-American community — Costas Maurikis beamed as the gold-glowing Acropolis appeared on television. | 12 |
Florida Retiree Town Devastated by Storm (AP)
AP - Where Calusa Indians once fought off early Spanish attempts to colonize, retirees and families seeking a slower pace and a sunny, affordable climate had turned Punta Gorda, or "Broad Point," into a comfortable community along the Gulf of Mexico. | 12 |
Hurricane Survivors Haunted by Bodies (AP)
AP - When Cindy Vallier returned home Saturday after Hurricane Charley, the bodies of the old couple across the road were lying in her front yard, covered in blankets. | 12 |
Acting Columbo Mob Boss Pleads Guilty (AP)
AP - The acting boss of the Columbo crime family pleaded guilty in a mistaken mob hit on a 78-year-old judge whose son, a former prosecutor, was the intended target. | 12 |
Democratic Senator Urges Energy Reform (AP)
AP - Congress must pass legislation to protect the nation's electricity grid if it wants to avoid repeats of the devastating outages that rolled across eight states last year, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Saturday. | 12 |
Chicago Suburb Targets Underage Partying (AP)
AP - Jennifer Gilligan says she wasn't drinking at the party and didn't know other underage people were. But when Naperville Police pulled up, the 20-year-old and more than a dozen others were ticketed, not for underage drinking, but for simply being at a party where their peers had alcohol. | 12 |
'Passion' Killer Gets 75-Year Sentence (AP)
AP - A man who said the movie "The Passion of the Christ" prompted him to confess to strangling his girlfriend has been sentenced to 75 years in prison. | 12 |
Ruling Leaves Gays Unsure of Benefits (AP)
AP - With their same-sex marriages yanked away by the California Supreme Court, many gay and lesbian couples were left wondering Friday what will happen to the benefits they briefly received, such as family insurance discounts and medical coverage. | 12 |
Man Says McGreevey Made Sexual Advances (AP)
AP - Was he a powerful politician, forcing himself on a young aide? Or was it consensual? A day after New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey made history by announcing his resignation over an affair with another man, Golan Cipel gave his side of the story. | 12 |
Bush Promises Aid to Hurricane Victims (AP)
AP - President Bush asked his supporters Saturday to pray for Hurricane Charley victims and announced that he will visit Florida to survey the damage. | 12 |
Campaign takes hard right past H'wood (Variety)
Variety - VICKSBURG, Miss. -- On the eve of what is arguably the most important presidential election in decades, Hollywood has again become a lightning rod. It simply takes a trip out of town to see the extent to which that is true. | 12 |
Kerry leading Bush in key swing states (AFP)
AFP - Although polls show the US presidential race a virtual dead heat, Democrat John Kerry appears to be gaining an edge over George W. Bush among the key states that could decide the outcome. | 12 |
Oldest Heinz Son Pursues Hands-On Activism (AP)
AP - Teresa Heinz Kerry once hinted at tensions with her first-born son, a 37-year-old blacksmith who seeks an anonymous life with his wife and child in rural Pennsylvania. | 12 |
Poll: Bush Tops Kerry As a Strong Leader (AP)
AP - President Bush retains an advantage with voters on such qualities as decisiveness and strength of leadership despite the Democrats' effort to promote John Kerry as a strong leader, a poll this week finds. | 12 |
Democratic Senator Urges Energy Reform (AP)
AP - Congress must pass legislation to protect the nation's electricity grid if it wants to avoid repeats of the devastating outages that rolled across eight states last year, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Saturday. | 12 |
Kerry Says His Daughter Has Won Fulbright (AP)
AP - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said Saturday that his daughter Vanessa has won a Fulbright scholarship to study medicine in London. | 12 |
Never a hostile question for campaigning Bush (AFP)
AFP - President George W. Bush famously dislikes press conferences but has embraced "Ask President Bush" sessions packed with supporters at least as eager to pay tribute to him as get an answer. | 12 |
Bush Tells Crowd Kerry Will Raise Taxes (AP)
AP - Trying to energize the electorate in heavily Republican western Iowa, President Bush hammered home the message Saturday that voters must keep rival John Kerry out of the White House because the Democrat will raise taxes on the middle class. | 12 |
Kerry Campaign Helping With Fla. Recovery (AP)
AP - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry does not plan to visit Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley because he's concerned his campaign entourage could distract from recovery efforts, he said Saturday. | 12 |
Edwards Calls for Changes to Drug Plans (AP)
AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards called for changes to prescription drug programs and praised running mate John Kerry's military and government service at an outdoor campaign rally here Saturday. | 12 |
Government Aims to Curb Political Groups (AP)
AP - Government lawyers are renewing their push to rein in groups like those spending millions on ads and voter outreach in the presidential race. | 12 |
Bush to Visit Hurricane-Damaged Florida (Reuters)
Reuters - President Bush wrapped up a
five-day campaign swing with a rally in the battleground state
of Iowa on Saturday and scheduled a quick trip to Florida to
survey hurricane damage in a state he needs to win in the
November election. | 12 |
Kerry Makes Most of 'Dead' Campaign Time (AP)
AP - On the last day of a two-week march from the Atlantic to the Pacific, tens of thousands of people stood under a hot sun on a bank of the Willamette River to hear John Kerry explain why he should be elected president. | 12 |
Kerry Asks Campaign Workers to Help Charley Victims (Reuters)
Reuters - Democrat John Kerry on
Saturday asked his presidential campaign workers in Florida to
help in recovery efforts after Hurricane Charley, but said he
had no immediate plans to visit the devastated communities. | 12 |
Bush Ad Assails Kerry on Intel Reforms (AP)
AP - President Bush assails rival Sen. John Kerry on intelligence reform, arguing in a new television ad that the Democrat's pledge to fix the system is at odds with his record and concluding, "There's what Kerry says, and then there's what Kerry does." | 12 |
Bush to visit Florida with Kerry's support (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush announced he would visit Florida Sunday to survey the devastation wrought by Hurricane Charley and try to comfort those afflicted by the deadly storm. | 12 |
Kerry, wrapping up cross-country tour, cheered by 60,000 in Pacific Northwest (AFP)
AFP - Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry wrapped up a two-week bus and train tour of the United States in the Pacific Northwest, cheered by tens of thousands at a star-studded rally. | 12 |
Bush threatens possible WTO case against Airbus (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush warned that the United States may bring WTO action in September against Airbus Industrie, citing "unfair" government subsidies to the European aircraft maker. | 12 |
Bush hails Afghan, Iraqi athletes' participation in Olympics (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush hailed the participation of Afghan and Iraqi athletes in the Athens Olympics, saying they were now representing nations free from "tyranny and repression." | 12 |
Debate Panel May Have Made 2000 Blunder (AP)
AP - The Commission on Presidential Debates may have violated federal election laws when it refused to allow any third-party presidential candidates into the debate halls to watch the 2000 presidential debates, a federal judge has ruled. | 12 |
Bush, Kerry Trade Charges Over Tax Cuts (AP)
AP - President Bush traded one refrain for another Friday, saying he is "getting the job done" on the economy and more. Not so, said Sen. John Kerry, criticizing administration tax cuts as insensitive to the middle class as he ended a 22-state tour. | 12 |
Bush, Edgar Martinez Exchange Baseballs (AP)
AP - President Bush and veteran Seattle Mariners designated hitter Edgar Martinez exchanged signed baseballs Friday. | 12 |
U.S. Could Go to WTO Over Airbus Subsidies -- Bush (Reuters)
Reuters - President Bush complained about
European subsidies for Airbus on Friday and threatened to take
a case to the World Trade Organization if they were not ended. | 12 |
CBO Report: Bush Tax Cuts Tilted to Rich (Reuters)
Reuters - One-third of President Bush's tax
cuts have gone to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans,
shifting more burden to middle-income taxpayers, congressional
analysts said on Friday. | 12 |
Bush Assails Kerry on Intel in New TV Ad (AP)
AP - President Bush assails rival Sen. John Kerry on intelligence reform, arguing in a new television ad that the Democrat's pledge to fix the system is at odds with his record and concluding, "There's what Kerry says, and then there's what Kerry does." | 12 |
US anti-war, Arab-American groups sue New York over Central Park rally permit (AFP)
AFP - An Arab-American organization and a group opposed to war and racism filed suit charging they were unconstitutionally denied a permit to hold a protest in Central Park during the upcoming Republican National Convention. | 12 |
New York City Sued for Blocking Civil Rights Rally (Reuters)
Reuters - An Arab American organization and an
anti-war group said on Friday they have sued New York City for
blocking a huge civil rights rally in Central Park just before
the start of the Republican National Convention. | 12 |
Results of Latest Presidential Polls (AP)
AP - Results of recent polls on the presidential race. Listed above each set of results is the name of the 2000 winner in a given state, the organization that conducted the poll, the dates, the number interviewed, whether it was adults, registered voters (RV) or likely voters (LV) and the margin of error (MoE). Results may not total 100 percent because of rounding. | 12 |
Bush, Kerry Spar Over Tax Cuts in Oregon (Reuters)
Reuters - President Bush and his Democrat
rival Sen. John Kerry sparred on Friday over the wisdom of
giving tax cuts to the wealthy as their two campaigns converged
on the battleground state of Oregon. | 12 |
Notes and Quotes From Campaign 2004 (AP)
AP - Sen. John Kerry's Nevada supporters said they liked what he had to say — though not with his East Coast accent — when he campaigned in the state this week. | 12 |
Bush backer: Kerry would emulate France (AFP)
AFP - On the same day that US President George W. Bush made perhaps his strongest defense of French foreign policy, a top backer derided Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry for wanting the United States to "act like the French." | 12 |
Labor Unions Mobilize for Kerry Campaign (AP)
AP - Labor has much to offer Sen. John Kerry in his quest for the presidency: a massive voter mobilization machine that is backed by well more than $157 million and was fine-tuned by union leaders this week. | 12 |
Republicans to tout Bush "leadership" at convention (AFP)
AFP - President George W. Bush's campaign played down the possibility that the Republican national convention this month would give him a significant "bounce" in his tight re-election race against Democrat John Kerry. | 12 |
GOP Staging 'Masquerade Ball,' Dems Say (AP)
AP - First, Republicans accused Democrats of staging an "extreme makeover" convention in Boston last month in an effort to portray John Kerry as anything but liberal. | 12 |
Bush Backs Off Idea of National Sales Tax (AP)
AP - President Bush is distancing himself from suggestions that he wants to replace the federal income tax with a national sales tax, saying "People shouldn't worry about me raising taxes." | 12 |
Lehrer to Get Help in Moderating Debates (AP)
AP - Jim Lehrer, host of PBS's "News Hour," will be a moderator for the presidential debates, but unlike past election years, he will divide the work with ABC's Charlie Gibson and CBS's Bob Schieffer. | 12 |
Kerry consistent on Iraq ... mostly (AFP)
AFP - While Republicans are trying to keep Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on the ropes for alleged flip-flops on Iraq, his position has in fact been largely consistent with a couple of exceptions. | 12 |
Kerry Opens Leads in Several Key States (AP)
AP - Sen. John Kerry has opened narrow leads in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire and a handful of other battleground state polls since accepting the Democratic nomination, increasing pressure on President Bush to regain lost ground at the Republican National Convention. | 12 |
Bush says he's ready to take "rap" over Iraq (AFP)
AFP - President George W. Bush said he was ready to take "the rap" for the Iraq war if the US people decided in November to elect his Democratic rival John Kerry, whose Vietnam war record, he said, was something to be proud of. | 12 |
Democrats See Nader As a Menace on Margins (AP)
AP - He's dropped in polls that gave him one lonely digit to begin with and seen friends peel away — even fall melodramatically to their knees begging him to quit. Even a little bit of Ralph Nader is too much for Democrats. | 12 |
Bush Declines to Condemn Attack Ads on Kerry (Reuters)
Reuters - President Bush praised John Kerry's
military service as honorable on Thursday but declined to
condemn ads from Vietnam veterans who questioned the
Massachusetts senator's military record. | 12 |
Cheney Criticizes Kerry's Terror War Plan (AP)
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday questioned Sen. John Kerry's call for a "more sensitive" war on terror, saying it won't impress the Sept. 11 terrorists or the Islamic militants who have beheaded U.S. citizens — criticism Kerry dismissed as negative politics. | 12 |
White House Sees Critical Period for Terror (Reuters)
Reuters - The presidential election campaign
has entered a two-month period when the threat of an al Qaeda
attack to disrupt the process could be greatest, a White House
official warned on Thursday. | 12 |
Cheney Mocks Kerry's 'Sensitive' War on Terror (Reuters)
Reuters - Vice President Dick Cheney mocked
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Thursday for
pledging to wage a more "sensitive" war against terrorism. | 12 |
President Bush Pays Visit to Nancy Reagan (Reuters)
Reuters - President Bush paid a visit to
former First Lady Nancy Reagan on Thursday in a sign of easing
tensions between the Bush and Reagan families despite their
disagreement over stem-cell research. | 12 |
Bush, Kerry Chase Each Other Across U.S. (AP)
AP - President Bush and Democratic opponent John Kerry seem to be playing a modern version of "Me and My Shadow" these days. The two presidential candidates keep popping up in the same states within days of each other — sometimes within hours. | 12 |
Bush Seen Taking Incremental Tax-Reform Approach (Reuters)
Reuters - President Bush is likely to tout tax
reform as a broad campaign theme but nothing as sweeping as a
national sales tax, despite recent warm words, Republican
sources said on Thursday. | 12 |
Court Rules Against Anti-Abortion Group (AP)
AP - A federal court on Thursday ruled against an anti-abortion group that wants to run ads in Wisconsin that mention Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, who is up for re-election this year. | 12 |
Education Group's Ads Assail Bush (AP)
AP - An interest group funded in part by the nation's largest teachers' union will launch $2.5 million worth of new commercials on Friday assailing President Bush's education reform law after spending several million dollars on television ads this summer. | 12 |
Kerry touts Clinton economy, slams Bush record (AFP)
AFP - Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry launched a two-week tour focusing on the economy as a new poll showed President George W. Bush vulnerable on the key campaign issue. | 12 |
A Look at States Where Kerry Has Improved (AP)
AP - Democrat John Kerry has gained ground on President Bush in several states in recent weeks, while independent Ralph Nader remains a factor. | 12 |
Mattel Puts Barbie on Campaign Trail (Reuters)
Reuters - Look out Bush and Kerry, Barbie's
making a run for the White House. | 12 |
Poll Gives Kerry 6-Point Lead Over Bush in Florida (Reuters)
Reuters - Democrat John Kerry leads
President Bush 47 percent to 41 percent among registered voters
in Florida, according to a poll released on Thursday that
showed independent Ralph Nader with 4 percent. | 12 |
Newsview: Bush Draws Kerry Into Iraq Fray (AP)
AP - With fighting flaring in an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq, President Bush hopes to draw Democratic Sen. John Kerry into a different kind of battle and destroy his claim as a veteran qualified for command in an age of terrorism. | 12 |
Republicans, Democrats clash bitterly over anti-terror war (AFP)
AFP - Republicans and Democrats clashed bitterly over the war on terrorism, with Vice President Dick Cheney heaping scorn on a call by presidential candidate John Kerry for a more "sensitive" campaign involving other nations. | 12 |
Kerry Hits Hot Spots in Western Swing (AP)
AP - The thermometer read 114 degrees when John Kerry left his air-conditioned campaign bus to gaze up at an electronic sign that locals call the world's tallest thermometer. | 12 |
Kerry scouring hinterlands for last undecided voter (AFP)
AFP - Democratic candidate John Kerry, with a paper-thin lead over President George W. Bush, is wooing the most rural newspapers in the smallest towns in the American heartland in a relentless quest for that last undecided voter. | 12 |
Kerry Takes Lead Over Bush in Florida (AP)
AP - Democrat John Kerry has taken a slight lead over President Bush in Florida — the essential swing state in the 2000 election, according to a poll out Thursday. | 12 |
Bush, Kerry, dueling over Saudi Arabia (AFP)
AFP - Much the way their predecessors warred over Sino-US ties in past elections, US President George W. Bush and Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry are trading blows over Saudi Arabia. | 12 |
Uncounted Ballots Hold Primary in Limbo (AP)
AP - Hundreds of uncounted ballots clouded the outcome Wednesday of a tight Republican congressional primary in which the top two candidates were separated by 275 votes out of more than 30,000 cast. | 12 |
Train Conductor Suspended for Kerry Quip (AP)
AP - An Amtrak conductor has been suspended without pay for telling his train passengers that they should vote against Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. | 12 |
Kerry courts senior voters, takes aim at Bush health care policy (AFP)
AFP - US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry decried President George W. Bush's health care policy, saying Americans are paying too much for medication while neighboring Canadians are able to buy cheaper prescription drugs. | 12 |
Bush assails Kerry over Iraq withdrawal pledge (AFP)
AFP - US President George W. Bush assailed Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry's pledge, if elected, to slash US troop levels in Iraq by next August. | 12 |
Najaf fighting keeps Iraq in US voters' eyes (AFP)
AFP - Fighting in the Shiite city of Najaf is keeping Iraq on the front pages of US newspapers, to the likely discomfort of President George W. Bush whose policies there have become a key issue in his re-election bid. | 12 |
Milestone of 1,000th U.S. Death in Iraq Looms for Bush (Reuters)
Reuters - The United States faces a painful
moment probably next month when its military deaths in Iraq are
expected to surpass 1,000. It will also be a crucial moment for
President Bush, who faces a presidential campaign in which Iraq
is a central issue. | 12 |
Unions Court Retirees to Vote for Kerry (AP)
AP - From union swing voters to retirees, organized labor is trying to wring out every vote possible for John Kerry in November. | 12 |
Coors Wins Senate Primary Race in Colo. (AP)
AP - The great-grandson of beer baron Adolph Coors handily won the Republican primary for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat, triggering a face-off with the state's Democratic attorney general this fall. In Georgia, a Democrat became the first black candidate ever nominated to the U.S. Senate from that state. | 12 |
Rumsfeld Says Drugs a New Threat to Afghan Future (Reuters)
Reuters - The war against terror was being won in
Afghanistan, but the country faced a new danger that threatened
the entire international community, Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld warned on Wednesday. | 12 |
Kerry: No nuclear waste for Nevada (AFP)
AFP - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said Nevada should not be home to a nuclear waste site under Yucca Mountain. | 12 |
Anti-Kerry Book Author Sorry for Slurs (AP)
AP - One of the authors of a new anti-John Kerry book frequently posted comments on a conservative Web site describing Muslims and Catholics as pedophiles and Pope John Paul II as senile. | 12 |
Bush crows over Kerry's acknowledgement on Iraq vote (AFP)
AFP - President George W. Bush claimed political vindication after Democratic rival John Kerry said he would have authorised military action in Iraq even knowing what he knows today. | 12 |
U.S. to Speed Up Immigrant Deportations (AP)
AP - The day before President Bush was to campaign in Arizona and New Mexico, the Homeland Security Department announced it would hasten deportations of illegal immigrants who are not Mexican or Canadian citizens. | 12 |
Poll: Older Americans Unhappy with Medicare Changes (Reuters)
Reuters - Older Americans are confused and
unhappy about upcoming changes in the federal Medicare health
program, according to a nonpartisan survey released on Tuesday
that indicates the issue could help Democrats win the November
vote. | 12 |
NY Activists Press for Anti-Bush Rally in Park (Reuters)
Reuters - Authorities on Tuesday spurned a new
bid by an anti-war group to stage the biggest rally of the
Republican convention in Central Park after activists rejected
a site chosen by New York police. | 12 |
Groups File Complaint Over Anti-Kerry Ad (AP)
AP - Three campaign finance watchdog groups filed a complaint Tuesday accusing a group of Vietnam veterans of violating the campaign finance law by airing an ad that challenges Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's military record. | 12 |
Can a Candidate Be Too Conservative in Bush Country? (Reuters)
Reuters - A battle is raging for the Texas
congressional seat that represents President Bush's adopted
home of Crawford, and redistricting, religion and a
cross-dressing scandal are weighing in the race. | 12 |
Top Texas Democrat Seeks Party's Funds (AP)
AP - The Texas Democratic Party chairman wants financial donors in the state to stop sending money to the national party because he says officials there are treating it as a Republican state where Democrats can't win. | 12 |
US withdrawal from Iraq depends on security, diplomacy - Kerry (AFP)
AFP - Chances for the United States to reduce its military forces in Iraq within one year will depend on security on the ground and advances in US diplomacy, US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said. | 12 |
First Lady Bashes Kerry Stem Cell Stance (AP)
AP - First lady Laura Bush, defending her husband's policy on embryonic stem cell research, accuses proponents of overstating the potential for medical breakthroughs and says it is "ridiculous" for John Kerry to claim the president has banned the research. | 12 |
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