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...

Barack Obama likes to say, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term." Bush's "third term" has become a favorite attack line for Democrats, repeated almost daily by the...

A threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to a John McCain campaign office in this south Denver suburb Thursday, authorities said. No injuries were immediately reported. Authorities later...

John McCain may have created his own housing crisis. Hours after a report that the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting didn't know how many homes he and his multimillionaire wife own, Democratic rival Barack...

Democrat Barack Obama Thursday depicted John McCain as rich, out of touch and less a foreign-policy expert than he claims _ part of the increasingly negative tone of the presidential hopeful's message as he tries to...

As if a fourth straight day of rain from Tropical Storm Fay wasn't enough, weary residents are now dealing with quintessentially Floridian fallout: alligators, snakes and other critters driven from their swampy lairs...

Iraq and the U.S. pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of major Iraqi cities by next June, with a broader withdrawal from the long and costly war by 2011. Subject to...

A woman and her accountant husband who claims he's developed a formula for lottery picks have each claimed $350,000 jackpots _ twice. Verlyn and Judith Adamson claimed two $350,000 jackpots on Monday because each held...

An ice cave collapsed on two teenage boys Thursday, trapping them for hours until rescuers with chain saws managed to cut through large chunks of compact snow and ice to free them. The Seattle teens, 17-year-old Alec...

Florida authorities are investigating a threatening letter sent to Gov. Charlie Crist that contained a suspicious but nontoxic white powder. Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Heather Smith says the...

Suicide bombers killed 67 people at Pakistan's largest arms factory Thursday in one of the country's deadliest terror attacks, adding to turmoil from political squabbling that is threatening to tear apart the ruling...

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...

South Korea's president said Friday his country needs a stronger military to cope with threats from abroad, amid rising tension with its nuclear-armed neighbor, North Korea. Though President Lee Myung-bak did not...

Chile's lower house of congress has suspended plans to boost a $1,626 gasoline subsidy for each of its members. The payment dwarfs a $2.80 monthly electricity subsidy President Michelle Bachelet unveiled this week for...

Russia and key Western nations remained at odds Thursday over a U.N. resolution aimed at bringing peace to Georgia, with the U.S., France and Britain insisting on immediate withdrawal of Russian troops and a commitment...

Mexico's economy expanded 2.8 percent in the second quarter, up slightly over 2.6 percent growth in the first three months of the year. A Thursday statement from the National Statistics Institute said the farming...

Ford Australia announced Friday that it will cut up to 350 jobs, or 15 percent of its Australian manufacturing work force, due to a slump in sales of large cars. The cuts, expected in mid-November, follow an earlier...

Qantas Airways Ltd. will inevitably merge with another major airline as part of the global restructuring taking place in aviation industry, the company's chief executive officer said Friday. Geoff Dixon, who retires...

Two billionaires used the screening of a documentary in theaters across the United States on Thursday to urge the country to come to grips with its staggering debt load. Warren Buffett and Pete Peterson were at the...

Oil prices held above $121 a barrel Friday in Asia after jumping more than $5 overnight as investors mulled the likelihood that tension with Russia would further disrupt crude supplies to the West. Light, sweet crude...

A man using the name Clark Rockefeller says in an upcoming television interview that he had hoped to live an "obscure life" in Baltimore with the 7-year-old daughter he's accused of kidnapping in a custody snatch. ...

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. ...

Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers of the U.S. win the gold medal in men's beach volleyball. ...

Angie Harmon and husband Jason Sehorn are expecting their third child, Harmon's publicist confirmed Wednesday. The 36-year-old actress and 37-year-old former National Football League player were married in 2001 and...

When reporter David Carr began thinking about writing his life story, he found he couldn't trust his own memory. Was it his best friend who pulled the gun on Carr some 20 years ago when Carr _ fired from a job and...

Nick Punto tripled and scored on a single by rookie Denard Span in the 12th inning, helping the Minnesota Twins beat the Los Angeles Angels 2-1 on Thursday night and pull within a half-game of the AL Central lead. The...

Emil Brown homered and Greg Smith allowed four hits over six innings for his first win since June as the Oakland Athletics beat the Seattle Mariners 2-0 on Thursday night. Carlos Gonzalez added an RBI single in the top...

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...

Alex Schwazer of Italy has won the gold medal in the 50 kilometer walk with an Olympic record, beating Australia's Jared Tallent. Denis Nizhegorodov of Russia, the silver medalist from the Athens Games and world record...

Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser have completed the American sweep of the beach volleyball gold medals, beating Brazil in three sets. A day after Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor weathered a driving rainstorm to win...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Internet-based telecommunications provider ShoreTel Inc. on Thursday said it swung to a loss in the fiscal fourth quarter as expenses climbed. For the three months ended June 30, ShoreTel posted a loss of $47,000, or...

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...

THE PROMISE: Using wireless power transmission, one day people might be able to recharge their laptops or cell phones or other gadgets without plugging them into an electrical socket. The technology makes use of some...

Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska's northwest coast, an increase from previous surveys that may indicate warming conditions are forcing bears to make riskier, long-distance...

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...