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    McCain deploying staff, expanding advertising (AP)

    Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., listens to a briefing before touring the Florida Everglades near Miami, Fla., Friday, June 6, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - With his Democratic foe now certain, Republican John McCain is deploying dozens of staffers into battleground states, boasting of improved fundraising and expanding his advertising into some of the most competitive terrain of the general election.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:22:52 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Big Brown is patched, ready for run at history (AP)

    Belmont hopeful Big Brown is washed by a groomsman as exercise rider Michelle Nevin looks on after the horse's workout Friday, June 6, 2008 at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. Big Brown, running in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, will attempt to be the first horse in 30 years since Affirmed to win the Triple Crown.  (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The Triple Crown trail is littered with colts whose feet failed them along the way. Less than 24 hours before the biggest horse race in three decades, favorite Big Brown and his Japanese challenger, Casino Drive, took steps in opposite directions.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:43:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Wonder Woman actress finds body on river in D.C. (AP)

    In this May 5, 2008 file photo, actress Lynda Carter shows off her Wonder Woman bracelet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York. Carter says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)AP - The actress who played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s says she didn't do anything extraordinary when she discovered a body this week on the Potomac River in Washington.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:24:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Caribbean monk seal becomes extinct (AP)

    An Hawaiian monk seal called Nuka, 18, pokes its head above the water, Monday, in this March 2, 1998 file photo, at the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu. The Caribbean monk seal was declared officially extinct by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service on Friday June 6, 2008. The Hawaiian monk seal population, protected by NOAA, is declining at a rate of about 4 percent annually, according to NOAA. The agency predicts the population could fall below 1,000 in the next three to four years, placing the mammal among the world's most endangered marine species. (AP Photo/Tony Cheng, FILE)AP - Federal officials have confirmed what biologists have long thought: The Caribbean monk seal has gone the way of the dodo.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:50:39 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Water drains from earthquake-formed lake in China (AP)

    Earthquake survivors carry their belongings to move to higher grounds as the drainage has begun  at the swollen Tangjiashan quake lake at Mianyang in southwest China's Sichuan province on Saturday June 7, 2008.  (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - Water began flowing into a spillway Saturday from a swollen lake formed by a landslide in China's devastating earthquake, easing the immediate threat of a flood that had led to the evacuation of more than 250,000 people.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:46:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    UN: Zimbabwe aid cutoff endangers 2 million people (AP)

    A family heads to the market place in a scotch cart in Esigodini  where Morgan Tsvangirai  was arrested about 80 km from Bulawayo, Friday, June, 6, 2008. Tsvangirai was briefly arrested  during his campaigning after police said  they had not sanctioned his campaign.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)AP - At least 2 million people in Zimbabwe face greater risk of starvation, homelessness and disease because the government ordered aid groups to halt operations there, according to the U.N.'s top humanitarian official.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:53:21 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Clinton poised to end historic presidential bid (AP)

    Mystery shrouded secret talks between Democratic presumptive White House nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which sparked new speculation Friday over her vice presidential prospects.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton is ready to thank her supporters for hanging on during her 17-month roller coaster journey from sure thing to also ran and to urge them to rally behind Barack Obama.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:38:33 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Energy chief: Flat production behind oil prices (AP)

    U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, right, is greeted by Japan's Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Akira Amari prior to their bilateral meeting held on the sideline of the G8 Energy Meeting in Aomori, northern Japan, Saturday, June 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, Pool)AP - Nations should fight rising oil prices by cutting subsidies and vastly increasing investment in energy, while oil-producing countries need to ramp up output and divulge more information about how much they produce, the U.S. energy secretary said Saturday.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:49:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama-Clinton talks spark frenzy (AFP)

    In this July 19, 2006, file photo Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, during the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Washington. Clinton and likely Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama met privately Thursday night June 5, 2008 to talk about uniting the Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File )AFP - Mystery shrouded secret talks between Democratic presumptive White House nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, which sparked new speculation Friday over her vice presidential prospects.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:26:36 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Police force Zimbabwe opposition chief to halt campaign (AFP)

    Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, seen here on June 3, 2008, has accused Britain of fomenting Western efforts to effect AFP - Zimbabwe opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai was forced Friday to halt his campaign to topple Robert Mugabe at a run-off poll this month after being detained by police for the second time in a week.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:01:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    India wobbles on fuel hikes after anger, Malaysia firm (Reuters)

    Motorists line up to buy petrol before the price increase at midnight, in Putrajaya, Malaysia, June 4, 2008. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters)Reuters - Protests and strikes over fuel price rises spread across India on Friday despite moves to take the sting out of the hikes, while anger fizzled out in Malaysia as the government stood firm after larger increases.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:13:53 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    U.S. climate bill dies; hope for 2009 (Reuters)

    A view across the Washington Mall of the Capitol Building, April 28, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. carbon-capping bill aimed at curbing climate change died on Friday in the Senate but its supporters looked to the next president to enact a global warming law as early as 2009.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:46:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Iraq says it wants to restrict movement of U.S. troops (Reuters)

    U.S. soldiers walk out of an airplane during a stop of their military flight at an airfield in Mosul June 6, 2008. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - Iraq said on Friday it would not grant U.S. troops freedom of movement for military operations in a new agreement being negotiated on extending the presence of American troops on its soil.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:52:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Israel to attack Iran unless enrichment stops: minister (Reuters)

    An Israeli fighter jet takes off from an air force base in a file photo. An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks 'unavoidable' given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday. (Abir Sultan/IDF/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - An Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear sites looks "unavoidable" given the apparent failure of sanctions to deny Tehran technology with bomb-making potential, one of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's deputies said on Friday.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:02:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Police detain Zimbabwe's Tsvangirai again (Reuters)

    Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai talks with Zimbabweans sheltering at the police station in Alexandra township, outside Johannesburg, May 22, 2008. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwean police detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday for the second time this week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the June 27 presidential run-off vote.


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    Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:35:03 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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