U.S. / Breaking News

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- Global warming is likely to increase illegal immigration, create humanitarian disasters and destabilize precarious governments and could add to terrorism, all of which could threaten U.S. national security, according to an assessment by U.S. intelligence.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- In 2005, when Denise Bolds was looking to refinance her four-bedroom Victorian home in the Hudson Valley town of Poughkeepsie, she was intrigued by a mailing that said she'd been "pre-selected" for a loan program that could lower her monthly payments... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A member of a notoriously violent street gang was arrested and booked Wednesday on three counts of murder in the shootings of a San Francisco father and two sons in the city's Excelsior district that police believe stemmed from a minor traffic incident, a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Nine teenagers and two adult guides who were missing on an adventure trip in the Sierra south of Yosemite National Park were found safe this afternoon, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department said. Three of the people are from the Bay Area. Four girls,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Three women pleaded not guilty Wednesday to child abuse and other charges involving a 5-year-old boy who was burned, starved and beaten. A Superior Court commissioner received the pleas in an abuse case against the boy's mother, 24-year-old Starkeisha.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- For more than two years, Neil Entwistle told the same story: He came home from running errands and found his wife and baby daughter cuddled in bed, dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Never did Entwistle suggest who might have killed his wife, Rachel, a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- It was swift and chaotic, witnesses said, as the plastics plant worker with a determined look opened fire, killing five co-workers then himself in rural western Kentucky. A man who called 911 from the plant described the violent scene early Wednesday w.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A lightning-sparked wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that already burned 16 homes was moving closer Thursday to the scenic community of Big Sur, where it threatened 500 houses. The blaze was only 3 percent contained late Wednesday and had bur.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- The Mississippi river has burst through one levee in the US state of Illinois and threatens to break many more throughout the American Midwest. Three feet of water flooded the area near the town of Gulfport, closing a bridge and cutting commuters off... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Levee break threatens town But inconvenience turned to frustration is some parts of Illinois Tuesday after one levee failed. Another 27 levees are in danger of overflowing, according to the federal government. Interactive map: Rampaging rivers Ri.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Reports of this town’s impending demise have been greatly exaggerated. Take it from John Hark, emergency management director for the boyhood hometown of America’s most beloved literary curmudgeon, Mark Twain. “We think we’re good,” Hark sa.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Videos Bringing Abu Ghraib back into focus June 17: “Standard Operating Procedure” co-author Philip Gourevitch discusses the continuing fallout from the photos taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.Nightly NewsPhysicians.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Strong defense of waterboarding One of the most explosive memos was the account of the October 2002 Guantanamo Bay meeting in which the CIA's Fredman joined 10 Defense Department officials and lawyers to discuss how to extract better intelligence from.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Attempts by conservative opponents to halt same-sex marriage in California before the November election failed Tuesday when both a state appeals court and a Sacramento trial judge refused to block local officials from issuing marriage licenses to gay coup.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 18, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Marital bliss, same-sex style, has broken out at county clerk offices all over the Bay Area, with eager gay and lesbian couples exchanging vows the moment the offices opened this morning. From Sonoma and San Mateo to San Francisco and Contra Costa, ebu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

MSNBC -- Mayor Jo Anne Smiley surveyed the bustling effort to save her tiny historic town from the rapidly rising Mississippi River, took a deep breath and ran down her mental checklist. “Foodwise, I think we’re OK for today,” she said. “My husband is g.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- When Senior Assistant Attorney General Christopher Krueger was leaving home to represent the state in opposing same-sex marriage during a historic hearing before the California Supreme Court in March, his wife kissed him on the lips and said, "Good luck,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Lesbian rights pioneers Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, together for more than half a century, will get married in San Francisco City Hall this evening wearing the same pastel-colored pantsuits they donned four years ago when they wed the first time. Once.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- Same-sex weddings are being held around the state starting this evening. Here are officials' plans: Alameda County: The county clerk's office will stay open late tonight - until 8 p.m. - and is one of a handful of offices statewide to wed couples today.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Developing nations have subsidized fuel to ensure peace and to support economic growth. But those policies have begun to falter. Malaysia and India, groaning under the weight of high fuel prices, have just begun cutting subsidies. Analysts such as Mich.. Read More