June 20, 2008 -
Today kicks off the 76th annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in Miami, the biggest gathering of city leaders in the country. Democratic nominee Barack Obama is slated to the crowd over the weekend, as is Bill Clinton.
June 19, 2008 -
Today is Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day that, in 1865, slaves in Texas were finally told they were free -- two months and 10 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ullyses S. Grant at Appomattox.
June 19, 2008 -
President Bush echoed the call of Republican presidential candidate John McCain this week in calling for an end to the 27-year-old federal ban on offshore oil drilling along the East and West coasts and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
June 19, 2008 -
Blackwater Worldwide CEO Erik Prince, President Gary Jackson, and spokesperson Anne Tyrrell traveled from the company's compound in Moyock, N.C.
June 19, 2008 -
A new study finds that older people are suffering the brunt of the bankruptcy and credit crisis.
June 18, 2008 -
Beside the bullying behavior of Big Energy, another troubling aspect of the story about environmental activist Panagioti Tsolkas' spirited fight against Florida Power & Light's expansion plans has been the media coverage.