Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Kevin Rudd’s 18-day trip overseas has no bearing on whether drugs are added to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Ms Gillard on Thursday dismissed news reports which said the prime minister’s absence from the country would unnecessarily stall subsidy of the drugs through their addition to the PBS.
A cabinet meeting [...]
Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. legislators during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of Congress to travel to Iraq in October 2002 at the [...]
The United States wants peace in the Middle East but would never pressure Israel to take steps that may threaten its security, Dick Cheney has insisted.
The US vice president flew to Jerusalem at the start of a two-day trip to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
He said: “We want to see a resolution to the conflict, [...]
All Cleveland State coaches and players knew was that they were boarding a plane and it would take them to California.
But the small plane that carried the 15th-seeded Vikings to their first NCAA Tournament appearance at Stanford wasn’t exactly a nonstop.
“They needed to refuel a couple of times,” Cleveland State coach Kate Peterson Abiad said. [...]
Colorado State punctuated a difficult spring-break road trip on a positive note Saturday, registering a pair of water polo wins at the Thompson Aquatic Center on the campus of the University of Redlands.
CSU (8-20) posted wins over host Redlands, 12-8, and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 9-7. The sweep marks the second time this year the Rams have won [...]
The Sacramento Kings play the middle contest of a three- game road trip when they visit the Memphis Grizzlies tonight at the FedExForum.
The teams have split a pair of games this season. The clubs have split the last four contests overall in the series. Sacramento has dropped four of its last five at Memphis.
Sacramento will [...]
After a week that was partly historic and partly confessional, Gov. David A. Paterson returned to Harlem Saturday for a political and personal homecoming on the eve of Easter.
“Our faith that has guided us to seek justice is not going to abandon us when we have decision-making capacity,” said Paterson, the state’s first African-American governor. [...]
MOSCOW - After eight years of rule that saw Russia’s influence and wealth grow while its democratic freedoms shrank, voters in the Far East were the first in this vast nation to cast their ballots Sunday for President Vladimir Putin’s successor.When the election is over and the votes are counted, a path almost certainly will [...]
LAS VEGAS - A motel patron hospitalized after the potent poison ricin was mysteriously found in his room “barely got by in life,” according to a woman who knew him when he lived at a Utah home that agents hoped to search Saturday.A down-on-his-luck Roger Von Bergendorff lived at his cousin’s home for more than [...]
SPOKANE, Wash. - Jeremy Pargo scored all 18 of his points in the second half and No. 24 Gonzaga beat No. 25 Saint Mary’s 88-76 on Saturday night to break a tie for first place in the West Coast Conference.Gonzaga avenged its only league loss this season and also won the first matchup between two [...]
