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AP - 1 hour , 38 minutes ago
A wind-whipped wildfire sent flames roaring through a rugged canyon in the Colorado foothills, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying dozens of homes -- some that belonged to the firefighters themselves, authorities said early Tuesday.
 
  • Tropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas
    AP - 58 minutes ago
    Tropical Storm Hermine began to lose its punch as it pushed north Tuesday, after causing landslides in northeast Mexico and leaving one Texas town almost entirely without power.
  • Indonesian volcano erupts again; strongest yet
    AP - 1 hour , 45 minutes ago
    An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.
  • Abbas asks US to step into settlement dispute
    AP - 45 minutes ago
    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he has asked the U.S. to settle a dispute with Israel over settlement expansion that is threatening to derail Mideast peace talks.
  • Top US commander: Burning Quran endangers troops
    AP - 25 minutes ago
    The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned Tuesday an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.
  • Australian Labor Party wins enough support to rule
    AP - 3 hours , 44 minutes ago
    Prime Minister Julia Gillard will lead Australia's first minority government in 67 years after two independent lawmakers threw their support behind her center-left Labor Party on Tuesday, ending two weeks of uncertainty left by national elections that ended on a knife-edge.
  • Study: Aid after 2005 quake won trust in Pakistan
    AP - 3 hours , 49 minutes ago
    The influx of foreign aid after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake significantly increased survivors' trust in the West, according to new research that also suggests hard-line Islamist charities did little to help despite the publicity they generated.
  • ABC News president David Westin steps down
    AP - 3 hours , 32 minutes ago
    ABC News President David Westin, the longest-reigning network news division chief, with more than 13 tumultuous years on the job, told his staff Monday that he is resigning and will leave by the end of the year.
  • Oracle names ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd co-president
    AP - 3 hours , 44 minutes ago
    Oracle Corp. has hired former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd to help lead the database software maker in a pivotal moment in Oracle's 33-year history as it tries to muscle in on more of HP's turf.
  • Death toll rises to 45 in Guatemala mudslides
    AP - 11 hours , 25 minutes ago
    Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.
  • Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program
    AP - 11 hours , 57 minutes ago
    A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.
  • Vegas police defend Hilton's quick jail release
    AP - 13 hours , 33 minutes ago
    Las Vegas police are defending Paris Hilton's quick release from jail after her Aug. 27 arrest on suspicion of cocaine possession, saying they wanted to avoid disruptions in the jail's operations.
  • Suriname leader: Drug conviction 'almost a joke'
    AP - 15 hours , 5 minutes ago
    Former Surinamese dictator Desi Bouterse shrugged off questions about his past during his first overseas trip as elected president, saying Monday that he will not interfere in his ongoing murder trial and dismissing a 1999 drug conviction as "almost a joke."
  • Suicide attack in NW Pakistan kills 17 people
    AP - 17 hours , 5 minutes ago
    A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an explosion that shattered the station and neighboring homes.
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