Barack Obama said Thursday he's chosen his running mate, but coyly kept all the details to himself as he campaigned with one leading contender and planned a major rally to present the Democratic ticket Saturday in...

A conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign wants to spend $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group...

Authorities say a threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to a John McCain campaign office in the Denver suburb of Centennial, and a similar letter was sent to a McCain office in Manchester,...

!!-- pobj:FLORL103-0821081114 -->Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's delegates will have their own organizers on the floor of the Democratic National Convention, an unusual move at a convention that is being billed as...

IN THE HEADLINES Obama says he's chosen his running mate, but won't say who ... Obama pounces on McCain for not knowing how many houses he and multimillionaire wife own ... Election panel rules McCain not bound by...

A grand jury issued three new felony indictments Thursday against members of a polygamist sect raided here in April. Schleicher County Clerk Peggy Williams confirmed the grand jury issued indictments against three...

A former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq did what he did to save his comrades, his attorney said Thursday as opening statements in the defendant's first-of-its-kind federal trial began. Jose Luis...

A 33-year-old man who authorities say wore a "World's Greatest Dad" T-shirt to have sex with what he believed was a 14-year-old girl has been sentenced to three to 20 years in prison. Oakland County Circuit Judge...

!!-- pobj:TXTYL102-0821081643 -->!!-- pobj:TXTYL101-0821081641 -->An auto body shop worker was convicted and swiftly sentenced to life in prison Thursday for grooming children as young as 5 to perform in sex shows at a...

!!-- pobj:NYBM102-0821081320 -->They had no water, hardly any air and no way out. In frantic, confused radio dispatches from inside a burning toxic skyscraper near ground zero last August, firefighters made a series of...

As of Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008, at least 4,145 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight military civilians...

In another embarrassing stumble with computerized data, Britain's government confirmed Thursday that a contractor lost a memory device containing information on every prison inmate in England and Wales. British...

Wildlife officials moved ahead Friday with plans to euthanize an injured and abandoned baby humpback whale that has been trying to suckle boats in the waters off Sydney. The decision was made Thursday after...

Russian forces lingered deep in Georgia on Thursday, digging trenches and setting up mortars a day before Kremlin officials promised to complete a troop withdrawal from this former Soviet republic. But a top Russian...

Some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan in recent years: _ Aug. 21, 2008: Suicide bombers blow themselves up at two gates into mammoth weapons factory in town of Wat, killing at least 59 people and wounding...

Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer. However, the Food and Drug Administration said...

Rising commodity costs kept weighing on food makers H.J. Heinz Co. and Hormel Foods Corp. in the most recent quarter, even as consumers continued to swallow price increases for their favorite foods. Hormel Foods, the...

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Barnes & Noble Inc., down $1.07 at $24.67 The nation's largest bookseller said its...

Customers bought more Whoppers, Cheesy Bacon BK Wrappers and crispy chicken sandwiches in the fourth quarter, driving Burger King's profit up 42 percent. But investors weren't too impressed by the profit gain at the...

Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation's largest bookseller, posted a 15 percent drop in second-quarter profit Thursday as it struggles with sluggish consumer spending. The New York-based retailer also projected that...

It's Love, Angel, Music, and Baby No. 2 for Gwen Stefani, who on Thursday gave birth to a boy. Zuma Nesta Rock weighed 8 pounds and 5 ounces when he was born Thursday afternoon, according to publicist Dave Tomberlin. ...

The stars of "Desperate Housewives," snubbed by the Emmy nominators this time around, will get a moment in the ceremony's spotlight anyway. Marcia Cross, Dana Delany, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria Parker...

Officials report white powder found in mail sent to John McCain campaign office in Colorado. ...

The brightly lit room looks like any nondescript warehouse packed with boxes and dusty shelves, but inside this plain brick building is nearly $200 million worth of treasures from the world's most famous shipwreck. The...

Sheryl Crow wants your vote _ and figures she can get it for a song. The Grammy Award-winning singer is offering a free download of her politically charged tune "Gasoline" to anyone who logs onto the Rock the Vote Web...

Losing for the first time since 2000, the U.S. softball team was denied a chance for a fourth straight gold medal Thursday, beaten 3-1 by Japan in the sport's last appearance in the Olympics for at least eight years _...

Gene Upshaw, a towering lineman on the football field who went on to win untold millions of dollars for NFL players as their union leader, has died at age 63. Upshaw had a Hall of Fame career as a guard for the Oakland...

Emmanuel Burriss scored the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 victory over the Florida Marlins 4-3 on Thursday. Burriss drew a one-out walk off closer...

With two perfect shots, Hunter Mahan put a terrible week at the PGA Championship behind him at The Barclays. Playing in calm morning conditions at demanding Ridgewood Country Club, Mahan split the fairway with his...

Derek Lowe cooled off Colorado by allowing one run in 6 1-3 innings, James Loney homered and had two RBIs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Rockies 3-1 Thursday to salvage the finale of a three-game series. The...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Recently I was in Tulsa, Okla., sharing in an EKG/Sunday School conference. It was both well-organized and well-attended. A large crowd gathered for the better part of a beautiful Saturday to...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--C.W. Brister Jr., a pastoral ministry professor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1957 until his retirement in 2001, died Aug. 9 after a battle with Lou Gehrig's disease. He was...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--John H. Allen, who supervised the mentoring of hundreds of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary students, died Aug. 18 after a lengthy bout with cancer. He was 77.Allen was director of...

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is mourning the death of Zambia's president, Levy Mwanawasa, on Aug. 19 at the age of 59.Mwanawasa's pastor, Rodney Masona of Twin Palms Baptist Church...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP)--Tropical Storm Fay made it to the Atlantic coast Wednesday but stalled in the Cape Canaveral area, after passing across the Florida Keys Monday night and making a second Florida landfall early...

Transplanting faces may seem like science fiction, but doctors say the experimental surgeries could one day become routine. Two of the world's three teams that have done partial face transplants reported Friday that...

Consumers worried about salad safety may soon be able to buy fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce zapped with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and a few other germs. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday will...

Measles cases in the U.S. are at the highest level in more than a decade, with nearly half of those involving children whose parents rejected vaccination, health officials reported Thursday. Worried doctors are...

Federal drug safety regulators said Thursday they are investigating whether the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin can increase patients' risk of developing cancer. However, the Food and Drug Administration said...

An expensive vaccine aimed at preventing cervical cancer makes sense for young teens when it comes to cost-effectiveness, but not for women in their 20s, contends a new report. The vaccine against the HPV virus was...

In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists...

Barry Diller's IAC/InterActiveCorp completed its split into five publicly traded companies Thursday _ a move intended to give each business more focus and value than the previously cluttered whole. With the split, home...

Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison, a longtime fixture on the list of the world's richest people, is now ensconced atop The Associated Press' rankings of the top-paid chief executives in the United States. Never shy...

Microsoft Corp.'s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic. The site, called Photosynth, stitches together a set of related digital photos...

An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America. Scientists...

Tropical Storm Fay was expected to make landfall along Florida's northern Atlantic coast Thursday morning, bringing with it very heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds. Flooding was predicted. The Northeast was to...

Tropical Storm Fay was expected to move northwest toward northern Florida or the Georgia coast Wednesday evening. Forecasters said it could intensify into a hurricane as it moves over water and were keeping a close eye...

Florida saw heavy rains and high winds coupled with tornado reports as Tropical Storm Fay trekked north Tuesday. Storms in the Northeast brewed strong winds that knocked down trees and dropped hail in southeastern...

Thunderstorms and severe weather were to continue across Florida as Tropical Storm Fay moved further inland Tuesday. The storm was expected to weaken as it continues moving northeastward, though heavy rains and high...

Tropical Storm Fay, expected to gain hurricane strength, was projected to reach the Florida Keys late Monday. Evacuations of the Keys have already begun despite indications that the storm's path would take it to the...