News

Squatters Looking for a Home of Their Own in Haiti

Oct 12, 2010 - 6:36 AM |AOL News

Emily Troutman for AOL News

CABARET, Haiti (Oct. 12) -- Jacques Klin is ankle-deep in dirt -- digging, singing -- with an irrepressible grin on his face. Today is a big day. Today is the day he stakes his claim. Around him on...

A Nobel Prize That's All About Jobless Debate

Oct 11, 2010 - 3:18 PM |AOL News

(Oct. 11) -- At a time when the human toll of global financial turmoil remains one of the biggest public challenges, this year's Nobel Prize in economics directly addresses the job-market disruption...

Obama Touts $50 Billion Transportation Proposal

Oct 11, 2010 - 12:07 PM |AP

Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

WASHINGTON (Oct. 11) - President Barack Obama on Monday lobbied for Republican support from Capitol Hill for a burst of spending on transportation projects, calling his proposal a jobs creator for...

Parties Have Dueling Stories on the Economy

Oct 11, 2010 - 9:36 AM |Politics Daily

Mandel Ngan, AFP / Getty Images

(Oct. 11) -- With just over three weeks to go before the 2010 midterms, the election appears to hinge on voters' own financial security and their impression of the nation's general material...

Two Americans, British Citizen Win Nobel in Economics

Oct 11, 2010 - 7:24 AM |AP

STOCKHOLM (Oct. 11) -- Two Americans and a British-Cypriot economist won the 2010 Nobel economics prize today for developing a theory that helps explain why many people can remain unemployed despite...

Paladino Explains Remarks on Homosexuality

Oct 11, 2010 - 7:07 AM |Politics Daily

Kathy Willens, AP

(Oct. 11) -- Tea Party favorite and New York's Republican candidate for governor, Carl Paladino, on Sunday sharply attacked homosexuality in a speech to Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn even as the tragedy...

Fame May Be Fleeting for Trapped Chilean Miners

Oct 11, 2010 - 6:29 AM |AP

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (Oct. 11) -- A torrent of emotions awaits the 33 miners when they finally rejoin the outside world. As trying as it has been for them to survive underground for more than two...

Police Look for Missing NC Girl, Question Parents

Oct 11, 2010 - 6:14 AM |AP

FBI / AP

HICKORY, N.C. (Oct. 11) -- A hearing-impaired North Carolina girl with a prosthetic leg vanished over the weekend, and her father said Monday it was possible that his wife was involved in the...

Mexico Opens Probe Into Reported Lake Shooting

Oct 11, 2010 - 6:13 AM |AP

ZAPATA, Texas (Oct. 11) -- The Mexican government said Friday it has opened a federal investigation into the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by Mexican pirates and...

Rand Paul Says Wealthy Should Pay More for Medicare

Oct 10, 2010 - 8:35 PM |AP

Alex Slitz, Daily News / AP

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (Oct. 10) -- Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul raised the idea Sunday that wealthier people like his opponent, the co-owner of a Kentucky Derby horse, should pay more for...

Serbian Police Clash With Anti-Gay Rioters

Oct 10, 2010 - 6:38 PM |AP

BELGRADE, Serbia (Oct. 10) -- Serbian riot police fought running battles Sunday with thousands of far-right supporters who hurled Molotov cocktails and stun grenades to try disrupt a gay pride march...

Government Won't Appeal Decision to Ban Witness in NY

Oct 10, 2010 - 6:31 PM |AP

NEW YORK (Oct. 10) -- The U.S. government announced Sunday it would prosecute the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to face a civilian trial without its star witness because appealing a judge's ruling...