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AP - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, South Korea said, a violation of U.N. resolutions and an apparent message of defiance to the United States on its Independence Day.
AP - President Barack Obama sought to rally support for his domestic initiatives, while Sen. John McCain called for Americans to support Iranian election protesters. The one-time presidential rivals both cited the spirit of the nation's founders in their Fourth of July radio and Internet addresses.
Reuters - North Korea fired seven ballistic missiles on Saturday, South Korea's defense ministry said, in an act of defiance toward the United States that further stoked regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.
AFP - North Korea test-fired a seventh missile on Saturday from its base on the east coast, South Korea's defence ministry said.
AP - Militants exploded a vehicle outside the gates of a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, sparking a two-hour gunbattle that ended when American troops called in airstrikes, officials said. Two U.S. troops were killed.
AP - A terrified rural South Carolina community hunkered down over the Fourth of July after the sheriff said a serial killer was on the loose, and longtime residents were reminded of a murderer who terrorized the town in the 1960s.
AP - Manny Ramirez is back in the big leagues, looking like a guy who missed 50 games. Returning from his suspension for violating baseball's drug policy, the Los Angeles slugger barely hit the ball out of the infield in the Dodgers' 6-3 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.
AP - A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him in an editorial Saturday of committing crimes against the nation .
AP - Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has defied political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early.
AP - Questions about Michael Jackson's use of prescription drugs are intensifying after a powerful sedative was found inside his home.
After reporting that she will not run for election again, Sarah Palin has stated that she will resign as Governor of Alaska within 30 days.
Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern who once suggested "gays are worse than terrorism" is back to demonizing gays again, this time blaming economic woes on same-sex marriage and gay pride month.
A boat carrying aid to pro-Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip was surrounded and boarded by Israeli forces off the coast of the Gaza Strip Tuesday.
McKinney is quoted as saying that the confrontation was "an outrageous violation of international law," and she claimed the boat was on a humanitarian mission and was not in Israeli waters.A Florida man was charged with domestic battery after he drenched his wife with a garden hose for smoking inside their home.
A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. .
Forty years to the day after Stonewall - when a police raid of a New York gay club led to riots and launched the modern gay-rights movement - police in Fort Worth, TX, are being accused of repeating the incident.
June 25, 2009 By GINGER THOMPSON and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN President Obama is expected to meet with Congressional leaders of both parties on Thursday to begin laying the political groundwork for sweeping immigration legislation, even though its passage this year is considered very unlikely.
Kentucky State University could open a boarding school aimed at preparing African American males for college as soon as 2010, according to President Mary Sias.
