President Obama is resisting calls for an investigation into torture and other abuses during the Bush years. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

The first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving with the message that clean technologies are available now to stop global warming.

A week after the election of Barack Obama, gun buyers across the country are stocking up. Some say they are worried that the incoming Obama administration will attempt to reimpose the ban on assault weapons. Others fear the loss of their right to own guns

Some 47 million people in the United States do not have health insurance. Obama wants to create a National Health Insurance Exchange to help individuals and small businesses buy private insurance.

U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression."

The troubled insurance giant American International Group already has consumed three-quarters of a federal $123 billion rescue loan, a little more than a month after the government stepped in to save the company from bankruptcy.

Scientists filming in one of the world's deepest ocean trenches have found groups of highly sociable snailfish swarming over their bait nearly five miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean. This is the first time cameras have been sent to this depth

"This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said. "Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing

Mr. Powell mentioned Mr. Khan's death to underscore why he was deeply troubled by Republican personal attacks on Mr. Obama, especially false intimations that he was Muslim. Mr. Obama is a lifelong Christian, not a Muslim, he said.

A handful of top executives from American International Group Inc. spent thousands of dollars during a recent English hunting trip, even as the New York-based insurer asked for an additional $37.8 billion loan from the Federal Reserve.