My Blog My WordPress Blog

WASHINGTON – Support for President Bush’s mission of spreading democracy throughout the world, especially the Mideast, is winning accolades from an unlikely source — New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson (search), a prominent Democrat often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (search) …

MANILA, Philippines – At least 27 elementary school children died and another 100 were hospitalized after eating a snack during morning recess Wednesday in the southern Philippines (search), officials said. Francisca Doliente, said her 9-year-old niece Arve Tamor was given some of the deep-fried caramelized cassava (search) by a classmate …

VATICAN CITY – People’s hands flew to their faces and some wept as they witnessed Pope John Paul II’s (search) struggle in front of a microphone, where he managed only a few sounds before he gave up and delivered his Easter blessing with a sign of the cross. Many applauded …