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 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
Rivals agree to free-flowing TV debate format
The Obama and McCain campaigns have agreed to an unusual, free-flowing format for the three televised presidential debates, which begin on Friday, but the McCain camp fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning at the vice presidential debate, advisers to both campaigns said yesterday.
- GEORGE CONDON | A CAPITAL VIEW
Reagan's playbook could help Obama out
From the very start of the 2008 presidential campaign, it has been the Republican candidates who have tried to emulate the example of their political hero, Ronald Reagan. But this week it is a Democrat who stands to gain the most by taking a page from Reagan's playbook.
- Dozens die in suicide bombing at hotel in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A massive suicide truck bomb ripped through a luxury hotel in the Pakistani capital last night, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 250 as the building was engulfed in flames, officials said.
- 9/11 hijackers' remains unclaimed, in custody of FBI and NYC coroner
Seven years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, the remains of 13 of the 19 men responsible have been identified and are in the custody of the FBI and the New York City medical examiner's office.
- 2008 VOTE: PRESIDENT
Both candidates have teams preparing for leadership transition
WASHINGTON – Although they hate to discuss it, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are quietly planning what to do in the frenetic 77-day period from the presidential election to Inauguration Day, so they'll be ready to take up the reins of government.
- Road to White House: Where They Stand
- Writer gets 18 months in prison for stealing presidential letters
NEW YORK – A historian and author has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison after apologizing for stealing letters written by George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and prized by Theodore Roosevelt.
- Evangelist's HQ raided in child porn investigation
FOUKE, Ark. – FBI agents and state police raided an evangelist's headquarters yesterday as part of a two-year child pornography investigation, and social workers interviewed children who live at the complex in southwestern Arkansas to find out whether they were abused.
- Man defies odds, finds rifle that his dad used in Korean War
DAVISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – As gifts go, Jim Richardson's choice for his father's 79th birthday was a long shot.
- NATION UPDATE
Dust could indicate collision of 2 planets
WASHINGTON – Masses of dust floating around a binary star system suggest that two Earth-like planets obliterated each other in a violent collision, U.S. researchers reported Friday.
- Galveston residents to face grim conditions upon return
GALVESTON, Texas – Rats, raw sewage and a no-excuses curfew await exiled residents who try to return to storm-wrecked Galveston Island when it reopens this week, officials warned yesterday, a week after Hurricane Ike came thundering ashore.
- Attempt to weaken skyscraper building codes rejected
WASHINGTON – The nation's largest official building-code group yesterday rebuffed a push by a federal agency and real estate developers to weaken skyscraper code enhancements adopted last year in response to the World Trade Center attack.
- Judge orders vice president to preserve all his records
WASHINGTON – A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction yesterday ordering Vice President Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all of his official records.
- Lost capital of Khazars may have been found
MOSCOW – A Russian archaeologist claims he's found the lost capital of the Khazars, a powerful nation that adopted Judaism as its official religion more than 1,000 years ago only to disappear, leaving little trace of its culture.
- Nuclear threat, leader's health cause worry on Korean border
AT THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Korea – Dank and mossy, the “invasion” tunnels dug by North Korea beneath its border with the South are a grim reminder that the two sides remain at war, locked in a tenuous, decades-long truce watched over by soldiers, tanks and barbed wire.
- Mortgages used in Mexico to fight police corruption
MORELIA, Mexico – Mexican police are testing a new weapon against widespread corruption in their ranks: home ownership. Officers and prison guards in Michoacan state can get special deals on houses and financing through a pilot program designed to keep them out of the pockets of organized crime.
- The week in Mexico
The heads of a U.S.-Mexican intergovernmental agency were among four people killed when a light aircraft they were traveling in slammed into mountains in northern Mexico.
- China tries to ease fears over milk
BEIJING – China's leaders scrambled yesterday to contain public dismay over widespread contamination of milk supplies, castigating local officials for negligence while moving to tamp down criticism of the government's response.
- More problems force shutdown of big European atom smasher
GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher – which was launched with great fanfare earlier this month – has been damaged twice and will be out of commission for at least two months, its operators said yesterday.
- Militants in Nigeria claim they hit another oil pipeline
DAKAR, Senegal – Militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria said yesterday they had hit another oil pipeline, continuing a streak of attacks that have badly damaged the country's largest oil producer, Royal Dutch Shell.
- WWII-era bomb explodes in Vienna
VIENNA, Austria – Austrian authorities said yesterday that what initially appeared to be a small earthquake that rattled Vienna turned out to be the explosion of a large World War II-era bomb.
- Putin defies West on troops in separatist regions
MOSCOW – Only Russia and the “states” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia will decide how many troops Moscow can keep on their soil, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday, signaling the Kremlin will do as it pleases in the separatist Georgian regions regardless of Western demands.
- WORLD UPDATE
Suicide bombing kills 3 in Iraqi town
BAGHDAD – Three people were killed and 20 wounded when a car bomb exploded yesterday in Tal Afar, a northern town, Iraqi security officials said.
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