Even if an agreement can be reached, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., signaled Thursday that the Senate would likely not be able to consider the bill until after Thanksgiving.

The blaze broke out before dawn Thursday at Riverside Downs, a former race track not far from the Kentucky-Indiana border.

State officials have taken into protective custody 20 more children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, alleging they had been abused and neglected.

An anonymous tipster told police 10 students gathered a week ago near an abandoned home in the hills of Montecito, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said Tuesday.

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The travel club says 41 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home. That’s down from 41.6 million last year.

President George Bush will talk today about how to make air travel easier during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about a fraudulent scheme to extort money from consumers by callers who falsely identify themselves as “FDA special agents” or other FDA officials

    WASHINGTON (AP) - It’s not easy finding a room in D.C. for
Barack Obama’s inauguration.

    PHOENIX (AP) - As an 8-year-old Arizona boy sits in a juvenile
jail, charged with murdering his father and another man, the
biggest unanswered question is “Why?“

    NEW YORK (AP) - Former Congressman Mark Foley says he’s trying
to find his way back, two years after he sent lurid, sexually
explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol
Hill pages.

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - While there’s anger and recriminations
in California’s gay-rights movement after voters there banned
same-sex marriage, gay couples in Connecticut are at the opposite
extreme: They’re getting ready to pick up marriage license forms.

Swedish truck and bus maker Volvo AB says it will lay off 1,000 staff at its powertrain unit in Sweden and North America.

    LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who often
played futuristic heroes in his movie career, came face-to-face
with the world’s largest laser system.

    WASHINGTON (AP) - War veterans have always sought one another’s
companionship but the days of a beer with friends at the local
veterans’ hall may be giving way to the computer age.

    NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush is making one of his last visits
to New York City as chief executive to formally rededicate the
Intrepid museum this Veterans Day.

    ST. JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy charged in the
shooting deaths of his father and another man appeared in handcuffs
at a court hearing, drawing tears from some in the audience, and
the judge slapped a gag order on the shocking case.

Even the palatial New York City apartment of
late society doyenne Brooke Astor isn’t immune from the housing
crunch.

A Texas man arrested on suspicion of
first-offense drunken driving posted a $200 bond and walked out of
a Nebraska jail without facing a judge.

Members from Fairfax Co. rescue teams have been deployed to Haiti to help in the search for victims of a collapsed school.

Parents pull kids from day care as money tightens

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the housing finance system being constructed following the collapse of the current system will need better safeguards to allow it to function during times of stress.

87-year-old former first lady expected to make a full recovery.

AIG executives take hunting trip in England and spend $86,000.

The Bush administration plans to make it easier for mountain bikers to gain access to national parks and other public lands before the president, an avid cyclist himself, leaves office.

The accord allows American businesses to sell nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India

A lack of sufficient credit would smother not just companies trying to start up or expand, but also any new jobs that would come about

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators sent a letter to American International Group Inc warning of its lack of transparency and ability to oversee its financial products in March, a top Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Countries scrambled to slow the growing global financial crisis on Tuesday and Wall Street braced for the day after a massive sell-off, nervous about corporate earnings and hoping Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke might offer a ray of hope.

Global markets fall on credit, economic fear * European bank rescues add to nervousness * Citigroup sues Wells Fargo and Wachovia over competing bid * Oil falls on worry about weak demand