Washington - The United States and Iraq are still working on a deal outlining the legal basis for keeping US troops in Iraq after a UN mandate expires at the end of this year, the US State Department said Wednesday.
"Nothing is done until everything is done. Everything isn't done," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "The Iraqis are still talking among themselves. We are still talking to the Iraqis."
Washington - With Wall Street continuing in a tailspin, US President George W Bush Wednesday said he realized the country was in a grim financial crisis but was confident "in the long run, this economy will come back."
Bush met in the morning with his financial advisors, then flew to Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of the hard-hit manufacturing areas of the country and a major Democratic stronghold for the November 4 presidential elections. He met with small-town business owners and bankers in Michigan.
Washington - Economic activity weakened across the United States in September as consumers and businesses became more pessimistic about the economy amid the worsening financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
The report known as the Beige Book, which is published eight times a year on conditions in the central bank's 12 regions, showed consumer spending and manufacturing had decreased in most areas.
Los Angeles - Fierce Santa Ana winds subsided Wednesday, helping thousands of firefighters reign in blazes that had threatened to shoot to the Pacific ocean through the network of canyons that ring Los Angeles.
The blazes claimed two lives and burned 7,200 hectares acres at the start of the season in which the hot Santa Ana winds roar in from the desert and fan ferocious fires.
That toll was seen as a lucky let-off after fire managers had warned earlier in the week that the winds could easily turn the fires into unstoppable wall of flames.
Los Angeles - Former first lady Nancy Reagan was in hospital Wednesday with a broken pelvis after a fall at her home, CNN reported, quoting a Reagan family spokesman.
Reagan, 87, suffered the fall last week after getting up in middle of the night and twisting her leg. She decided Monday to get checked out at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where doctors determined she had a fractured pelvis.
Washington - A supporter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin went beyond a bumper sticker and named his new born daughter after the duo.
The child's name, Sarah McCain Palin Ciptak, however was a surprise to her mother. The parents had agreed to name the girl Ava Grace, but father Mark Ciptak instead filled out the birth certificate with the political name to draw attention to the candidates, he told local newspaper the Kingsport Times News.
Washington - The United States and Iraq are still working on a deal outlining the legal basis for keeping US troops in Iraq after a UN mandate expires at the end of this year, the US State Department said Wednesday.
Washington - With Wall Street continuing in a tailspin, US President George W Bush Wednesday said he realized the country was in a grim financial crisis but was confident "in the long run, this economy will come back."
Washington - Economic activity weakened across the United States in September as consumers and businesses became more pessimistic about the economy amid the worsening financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
Los Angeles - Fierce Santa Ana winds subsided Wednesday, helping thousands of firefighters reign in blazes that had threatened to shoot to the Pacific ocean through the network of canyons that ring Los Angeles.
Los Angeles - Former first lady Nancy Reagan was in hospital Wednesday with a broken pelvis after a fall at her home, CNN reported, quoting a Reagan family spokesman.
Washington - A supporter of Republican presidential candidate John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin went beyond a bumper sticker and named his new born daughter after the duo.
