India picked up intelligence in recent months that Pakistan-based terrorists were plotting attacks against Mumbai targets, an official said Tuesday, as the government demanded that Pakistan take “strong action” against those behind the deadly rampage.

President George W. Bush says history will
judge him, but he is getting his own crack first. Bush is using his
final 50 days in office to tout his legacy, hoping to leave a
lasting impression of overshadowed progress.

A 30-mile scar of debris along the
Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local
officials say is FEMA’s sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane
season.

A Houston hospital says former first lady Barbara Bush is in good condition and recovering from ulcer surgery as expected.

The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday.

The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker.

As authorities finished removing bodies Monday from the bullet- and grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel, a Muslim graveyard refused to bury nine gunmen who terrorized this city over three days last week, leaving at least 172 people dead and wreaking havoc at some of its most famous landmarks.

Stricter new rules governing sex offenders are taking effect in North Carolina.

Deep discounts on everything from sweaters to TVs drove shoppers out of hibernation for the Thanksgiving weekend, but the buying was tempered and sales for the traditional start of the holiday season appear at best in line with stores’ low expectations.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday, taking a detour to sunny California after storms hit the main landing strip in Florida.

As of Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, at least 4,206 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be heading to New Delhi this week after meetings in London and Brussels.

Gay is the new black, say the protest signs and magazine covers, casting the gay marriage battle as the last frontier of equal rights for all.

President-elect Barack Obama is set to name four more of his cabinet posts Monday.

President Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Mumbia in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

The space shuttle Endeavor landed in California safely Sunday afternoon.

Reports say New York Giants’ wide receiver Plaxico Burress was accidentally in the leg a nightclub.

President Bush says the United States will send support to India in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly terrorist attacks.

Indian commandos continue to assess the damage from Wednesday’s attacks in Mumbai.  The death toll has risen to at least 195 people.

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has confirmed that a New York rabbi and his wife are among the dead in the India terrorist attack.

Police say a Wal-Mart worker has died after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers shortly after the Long Island store opened Friday.

The space shuttle undocked from the space station Friday morning, ending a 12-day visit that left the orbiting complex with more modern and deluxe living quarters.

A suspect is to be arraigned today in the beating death of a TV anchorwoman in Little Rock, Arkansas.

A massive explosion has shaken the besieged Mumbai Jewish center, blowing out windows in neighboring buildings. The new figure brings the death toll to at least 143.

Shoppers, who had snapped their wallets shut since September, flocked to stores and malls before dawn Friday to grab deals on everything from TVs to toys for the official start of the holiday shopping season, feared to be the weakest in decades.

Arkansas Police have arrested a suspect in the deady attack of Arkansas anchorwoman Anne Pressly.

Thousands of people crowded the streets of New York City Thursday morning for the 82nd annual Macy’s Day Thanksgiving Parade.

President Bush says the agreement between the Iraqi parliament and the U.S. government is a major step.

The Indian navy says its forces are boarding a cargo vessel suspected of ties to the Mumbai attacks that killed 101 people.

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