Many U.S. public transportation systems are struggling to cover costs, with more than a third projecting shortfalls for their upcoming budget years, the American Public Transit Association said Wednesday.
The two senators beat out Republican, Tea Party challengers.
However, he is impressed by the latest entrant, Texas governor Rick Perry.
Town moving on three months after major tornado.
French military barracks will be converted to mosques.
Latino activists held a protest outside President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign headquarters on Tuesday to ask him to end a criminal deportation program they say is snaring large number of illegal immigrants who have not committed crimes.
Prosecutors are asking the international tribunal to split the case against former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic in two. This could lead to a quicker verdict.
?We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him,? he said.
A new New Hampshire poll of how Republican presidential candidates are faring shows Mitt Romney easily in the lead, but recent race entry Rick Perry came in at a strong second place showing.
The details are sketchy about President Barack Obama's September jobs speech, but one thing is certain: as economic manager, Obama must increase job growth substantially in the next nine months to help the millions of Americans who are unemployed find jobs, to strengthen the economy, and to save his presidency.
Verizon said it is sending out letters to 45,000 striking employers that if they don?t return to work by then, their health care benefits will expire on August 31.
Joe Biden has much on his agenda when during his visit to China this week.
Russia needs a change of leadership and free elections to stop it sliding backwards 20 years after a coup that hastened the end of the Soviet Union, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said on Wednesday.
The White House on Wednesday said President Barack Obama would unveil fresh ideas to jump-start the economy and cut deficits, but details offered so far appeared to be a compilation of old proposals.
Kurdish guerrillas killed seven Turkish soldiers in an attack on a military convoy in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday, officials said, and the government vowed to retaliate, saying its patience had snapped.
Russia pitched on Wednesday a proposal to Iran's foreign minister which it hopes could bring a breakthrough in a confrontation over Tehran's nuclear programme, despite doubts in the West that the plan can make much headway.
Israel will stick to its refusal to apologise to Turkey for killing nine of its citizens on a Gaza-bound ship, an Israeli official said on Wednesday, entrenching a position that Ankara said would kill any prospects for reconciliation.
Syrian troops raided houses in a Sunni district of the besieged port of Latakia on Wednesday, residents said, arresting hundreds of people and taking them to a stadium after a four-day tank assault to crush protests against President Bashar al-Assad.
Protests swelled across India on Wednesday in support of a self-styled Gandhian anti-corruption campaigner fasting to the death in jail, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's struggling government at a loss over how to end the standoff.
Britain said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there.
Rick Perry said if ?[Bernanke] prints more money between now and the [2012 presidential] election,? it would ?almost be treasonous.? Perry made the comments on Monday at an Iowa campaign event.
Libyan rebels launched an assault on Zawiyah's oil refinery on Wednesday to drive the last of the forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi out of the city west of Tripoli and tighten their noose around the capital.
Two men who were issued a 4-year jail sentence for using Facebook to incite riots in England last week are to appeal their punishment.
Madrid police have arrested a Mexican chemistry student who allegedly planned to gas anti-Pope protesters at the 2011 World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain
Despite a televised promise to return to the country he rules, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh will face difficulties coming home from Saudi Arabia.
Perry is a favorite among social conservatives, including the Tea Party
An anti-corruption movement led by a feisty 74-year-old social activist is snowballing into one of the biggest challenges in decades for the ruling Congress party and if not contained risks sparking India's own version of an Arab Spring revolt.
Another Rick Perry book is coming out soon, but the Republican presidential hopeful probably won't like it.
Hazare, whose arrest a day earlier sparked protests across the country, rejected the government's offer for his release, choosing to remain in prison until he is permitted to go on a hunger strike.
Robert Gibbs, a former spokesman for President Barack Obama, on Wednesday sought to clarify the role in public policy the Tea Party faction of the Republican Party is playing: counter-productive, to put it diplomatically.
