Tropical Storm Claudette was on course late Sunday afternoon to hit the Florida Panhandle in the evening, and the storm’s outer rain bands already were pushing into the area. At 5 p.m
Tropical Storm Claudette bears down on Florida
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Quake strikes off Indonesian coast
A 7.0-magnitude quake struck off the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Death toll up to 8 in California police chase
The death toll climbed to eight in a crash tied to a police pursuit in central California, authorities said Sunday.
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Japan coast
A strong earthquake struck off the south coast of Japan on Sunday night local time, "jolting Tokyo and wide areas of eastern Japan," the country’s Kyodo news agency reported.
Allies may torture terror suspects, top UK ministers say
Britain cannot guarantee that its allies are not torturing terror suspects, two top government ministers said Sunday. And it’s possible that information used to thwart planned terror attacks was obtained through torture abroad, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Home Secretary Alan Johnson said
Dozens feared dead in India mudslide
At least 43 people are feared dead after a massive mudslide swept away three hamlets in northern India, authorities said Sunday.
Read his lips: Does tax pledge put Obama on shaky ground?
"Read my lips: No new taxes." That famous phrase from George H.W. Bush came as he accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Committee convention in 1988. At the time, it was exactly the red meat Republicans were looking for.
Moussavi, Khatami blast Iran trials
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi and reformist former President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday blasted the trials of people arrested in post-election demonstrations. Those on trial had been tortured into confessions, Moussavi said in a statement posted on his Ghalam News Web site. “They have been stepped on so severely that they would have confessed to anything else, had they been instructed to do so,” Moussavi said.
Indonesia: Plane carrying 15 disappears
A Merpati Nusantara Airlines plane with 15 passengers and crew on board disappeared shortly after takeoff in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, an airline official said.
Two deputies killed in Oklahoma shooting
An Oklahoma man is accused of shooting two sheriff’s deputies who were trying to arrest him on domestic assault charges Sunday, authorities said. He’s facing murder charges in the deaths.