John McCain announced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate Friday, calling her "the running mate who can best help me shake up Washington." "She's exactly who this country needs ...

She owns two Saturn dealerships in the Lansing area, but will lose her partnership with General Motors in three years because the automaker is discontinuing the Saturn and Pontiac brands as part of ...

Computer education culture discourages girls, survey says. From Staff Reports. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The methods used to teach computer programming classes are turning off girls at ...

The average cost of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline increased by nearly two cents over the past two weeks, ending a nine-week decline in the price, a nationwide survey of gas prices released ...

We were out filming the devastation caused by Hurricane Rita in the now famous 9th Ward section of New Orleans and had just finished our interviews and stand-uppers when my cameraman, Scottie ...

Carol Costello anchors the 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. (ET) edition of CNN Newsroom each weekday. She is based in the network’s New ...

U.S. government Web sites -- including those of the White House and the State Department -- have been under attack since the Fourth of July, along with financial and commercial sites like Yahoo ...

President-elect Barack Obama said Friday that he hopes there still will be a way to provide temporary assistance to keep the troubled U.S. automakers afloat. "I am disappointed that the Senate could ...

Water is the key to life. It is fundamental to all human activities. Water grows the food we eat, generates the energy that supports our modern economies and maintains the ecological services on which ...

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What we would like to continue to emphasize is that there are many different types of biofuels, some are more promising than others. Certainly there are things that need to be reevaluated and looked ...

The campaign needed to find a way to break through all of the noise about Obama, and tried -- if a tad desperately -- to do so. First came the charge, hotly disputed, that Obama decided to go to the ...