U.S. judge refuses to lift ban on stem cell funds
| A U.S. judge Tuesday refused to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite warnings from the Obama administration that it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs. |
High winds fuel fires across Detroit
Detroit fire officials said nearly 20 fires broke out in the city late Tuesday afternoon.
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Hermine's remnants head north after storm weakens
| What was left of Tropical Storm Hermine was making its way north Wednesday, having drenched parts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas before weakening. |
WTC steel column installed at ground zero
Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit.
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Protesters, police clash over L.A. immigrant death
Protesters on Tuesday night pelted a police station with eggs, rocks and bottles despite Police Chief Charlie Beck's plea for calm earlier in the day and his promise to thoroughly investigate an officer's fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant wielding a knife.
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FBI: No explosives found after jet bomb threat
Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday.
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Husband says wife faked cancer for free wedding
Residents of the city of Newburgh, N.Y., are feeling angered — and saddened — over news that they may have fallen for the worst kind of hoax.
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Critics of Obama plans ask: What jobs, exactly?
Analysis: President Barack Obama's new stimulus plan directs government assistance to some of the strongest parts of the economy without solving the biggest problem: jobs.
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Ariz. Green Party sues to block 'sham candidates'
| The Arizona Green Party is asking a judge to kick more than half of the group's nominees off the November ballot and overturn the state law the let them on the ballot. |
Reclusive heiress's attorney lashes out at family
Elderly heiress Huguette Clark's attorney has responded to an effort by her relatives to oust him by ridiculing them as Johnny-come-latelies. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.
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BP probe spreads blame for Gulf oil spill
Oil giant BP said in an internal report on Wednesday that multiple companies and work teams contributed to the massive Gulf of Mexico spill that fouled waters and shorelines for months.
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Fla. pastor has legal right to burn Qurans
| Florida pastor Terry Jones will undoubtedly offend and infuriate many people around the world if he follows through on a plan to burn Muslim Qurans at his church this weekend. |
N.Y. imam: Mosque project won't be stopped
The imam at the center of the controversy over a YMCA-like Islamic center proposed for a site near the World Trade Center says the project will not be stopped.
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Holder calls Quran-burning plan 'idiotic'
| Attorney General Eric Holder calls the planned burning of the Quran at a Florida church "idiotic and dangerous." Pastor says the Sept. 11 protest is on, but he's praying about it. |
NYT: Obama will not extend tax cuts to wealthy
| NYT: President Obama will rule out on Wednesday any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said. |
Battle lines drawn over tax cuts for the wealthy
| Ahead of President Obama's big economic speech, House Republican Leader John Boehner is proposing a two-year freeze on all tax rates and a cut in government spending to the levels of 2008. |
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