Central African Republic

With surprising swiftness, the government's "cash for clunkers" program has burned through its $1-billion budget in less than a week as car buyers swarmed dealerships, and federal officials were scrambling late Thursday night to find more money to keep it...

Lawmakers and Obama administration officials scrambled this morning to find more money for the government's "cash for clunkers" program after overwhelming demand left the $1-billion initiative nearly out of money. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md....

Authorities say a U.S. Marine has been killed and another is critically injured in a car crash in Orange County. Orange County Sheriff's Lt. Ted Boyne says the vehicle struck a tree at a high rate of speed in San Clemente. Boyne says the man in the...

The House today approved an additional $2 billion for the government's "cash for clunkers" program, moving unusually quickly to replenish the program after overwhelming demand from consumers left the initiative in danger of shutting down because of lack...

Taurus captivated the public with its weird styling when introduced for 1986 and captured the auto sales crown from the Honda Accord. But Ford couldn't handle success. A 1996 redesign proved too radical. Worse, a name change to Five Hundred in 2005...

by Mark Silva Ever since the election of a young president from Hope, Arkansas, the notion of a new generation unbridled by the burdens of the past has carried a certain and powerful political currency. "Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone,'' they......

The arrest warrant issued last week for Sudan President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir has thrown into stark relief a question the Obama administration and Congress need to address: What are we going to do about the International Criminal Court? The desire...

The rebels targeted churches on Christmas Day. Men were killed first, often stripped of shirts and pants, and then bound with their arms behind their backs. Rather than waste bullets, the attackers hacked victims in the back of the neck with machetes...

Embattled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and flew into exile early Sunday as gunfire and looting engulfed the capital. An advance guard of U.S. Marines arrived late in the evening, prepared to help restore order. Once widely popular...

In the steamy twilight of the jungle, Gilles Bokande hunkered beside a mossy stump and pinched his nose between his index and middle fingers. Blowing air through the back of his throat, he bleated like a duiker, a tiny forest antelope. Nothing happened....

The wind has no name. But it is a fierce wind, a bad wind, and when it blows down this tar-black jungle river most people run. Because it turns their eyes to color of blood. Because the wind kills them. Isidore Edjimouagno knows. He survived the evil...

The State Department is warning Americans to avoid travel to these countries: Afghanistan; Algeria; Angola; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Burundi; Central African Republic; Colombia; Congo-Kinshasa; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; Ivory...