World-Business/Politics news

Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on World AIDS Day.

The Department of Justice today announced more than $82.7 million in grant funds and assistance to tribal communities for law enforcement and justice system improvements in fiscal year 2007.

The Democratic majority isn't sticking to "fiscal discipline." Though House Democrats each called for a savings average of $731 million, this offsets 0.2 percent of their spending-hike bills, resulting in a net agenda of $470.1 billion - the highest among the past nine Congresses.

In an interview that airs this weekend on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) program "Political Capital with Al Hunt," former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski threw his support behind Barack Obama's presidential candidacy.

Millions of Americans, shocked by the Senate grand bargain on immigration that gives the precious gift of legalization to millions of illegal aliens and felons, have taken to the phones to demand no amnesty.

Latest Harris Poll finds Senator Clinton has since strengthened her position and that Senator Obama has slipped. She now leads Obama by fully 13 points -- 40 percent to 27 percent.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative candidate, is elected President of the French Republic with 53-55% of the vote, defeating Socialist Segolene Royal, television projections said.

Hrant Dink, the 53-year-old Turkish-Armenian journalist of the weekly Agos newspaper, was shot and killed Friday as he left his Istanbul newspaper building.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton confirms that she will run for the 2008 presidential race.

Germany has taken over the rotating presidency of the European Union, which now has two new members, Bulgaria and Romania.

A powerful explosion caused by a car bomb caused extensive damage in a parking garage in Madrid in front of Terminal 4 of Spain's busiest airport.

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday.