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Law enforcement officers wanted: must work graveyard shifts alone in remote towns along the Mexican border, put in long hours and perform well in triple-digit temperatures. That message is never toute

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain spoke before the American Legion national convention Tuesday in Phoenix. It was a friendly audience for the one-time prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain attacked Barack Obama's foreign policy, and vowed to protect and improve health care for veterans.

Street life in the neighborhoods is picking up, with vendors, hawkers and street games of table soccer resurfacing. Residents of Sadr City credit the area's radical Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr for the quiet in their impoverished neighborhood.

Although the U.S. is neutral on who will be Pakistan's next president, Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. envoy to the U.N., has been speaking several times to one candidate. His conversations have angered State Department higher-ups, who put an end to them.

Harry Potter and his owl, Hedwig, may have once again popularized the mysterious and scholarly owl. But unlike the owls in the children's books, owls are wild raptors protected by the U.S. Governmen

An Impromptu Kucinich Interview

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now appears to be more receptive to tax increases to get a state budget passed. But will that just turn-off Republican legislators who vow to oppose any new taxes?

The Democratic National Convention was gaveled to order Monday in Denver. The convention gives Barack Obama an opportunity to reassure voters about his values and readiness to be president. That task began Monday when an ailing Ted Kennedy passed the torch to Obama, and then Michelle Obama spoke about her husband.

As production of crude oil falls in Mexico, debate continues on the issue of privatization of the oil monopoly. Without radical reform, Mexico could run out of oil in less than a decade.

Clinton's Tuesday speech at the Democratic National Convention will set a tone for party unity — or disunity. Even though she conceded defeat for the presidential bid in June, Clinton has not released her delegates.