Site Map -- MSNBC.comhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/rss/RssSitemap784.xmlMSNBC.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism.Copyright 2009 MSNBC.comen-ushttp://www.msnbc.com/images/msnbc/logo01.gifSite Map -- MSNBC.comhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/World stock markets swooned again Tuesday as the global financial crisis caused investors to worry that asset prices have yet to hit rock bottom.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26715864/2008-09-16T13:32:11.013+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26715864/Which story in Weird news that week was the strangest? Here's what users thought. Click on the headlines to see whether you agree.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26714594/2008-09-15T06:55:52.510+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26714594/Residents of a town in eastern Indonesia surged forward to receive $4.25 in handouts from a wealthy family, crushing to death 23 people, officials said.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26714157/2008-09-15T09:00:42.257+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26714157/Jennifer Hudson and boyfriend David Otunga are engaged to be married. Otunga is better known as “Punk” from the VH1 reality show “I Love New York 2.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26709049/2008-09-15T00:55:06.180+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26709049/Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said Sunday it ended talks to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., best known for the "Grand Theft Auto" series of games.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26709023/2008-09-15T00:41:38.057+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26709023/Bank of America said Monday it will buy Merrill Lynch in a $50 billion deal that would create a bank offering everything from fixed-income trading to credit card lending.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708958/2008-09-15T13:12:45.670+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708958/The couple has made a $2 million donation through their Jolie-Pitt Foundation to the Global Heath Committee to create a center for AIDS and tuberculous-affected children in Ethiopia, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708932/2008-09-15T00:41:39.570+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708932/There's one more operation in Shia LaBeouf's future. The actor's hand was crushed in a car accident in Hollywood in July.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708931/2008-09-15T00:33:09.550+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708931/Insurer American International Group is pulling together a survival plan that includes selling off some of its most valuable assets, according to news reports Monday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708720/2008-09-15T21:51:24.903+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708720/If the mortgage meltdown is like a financial hurricane, then think of Lehman Brothers as a casualty that waited too long to cry for help.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708505/2008-09-14T23:54:34.297+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708505/Atul Vyas scored in the top 1 percent on his medical school entry exams, but he was having trouble answering one question on applications to Harvard and Duke: Describe a hardship you've overcome.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708097/2008-09-14T23:38:03.283+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26708097/Will Dan or Memphis win ‘Big Brother 10’?http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707812/2008-09-14T22:26:49.400+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707812/Unidentified gunmen kidnapped two Somali employees of the U.N.'s World Food Program on Sunday, a Mogadishu-based member of the organization said, bringing to 20 the number of humanitarian workers kidnapped this year.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707537/2008-09-14T22:49:31.250+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707537/Dan's argument will be that he's survived despite always being a target.&#160; But Memphis played a deceptively strong game and may have angered fewer jurors.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707439/2008-09-14T22:33:37.610+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707439/He's just 23, but Luke Russert, son of the late "Meet the Press" host Tim, is starting to walk in his dad's footsteps as a political journalist.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707259/2008-09-14T23:03:50.920+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707259/Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has left the wilds of Alaska, but she has not quite left the mountains.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707258/2008-09-14T22:27:16.587+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707258/An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after it was stolen and later dumped in a cornfield in Vermont.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707246/2008-09-14T21:45:56.320+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26707246/"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706278/2008-09-14T20:44:58.590+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706278/Plastic forks, disposable diapers, drafty houses — if it hurts the environment, make it cost more. That's the message France's government wants to send with a raft of proposed new taxes.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706242/2008-09-14T21:01:01.540+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706242/Jennifer Lopez claimed a foot injury prevented her from judging the "Project Runway" finale, but that injury didn't stop her from completing a Malibu triathlon.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706228/2008-09-15T13:43:20.727+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706228/Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton signaled out Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Sunday by using a slightly revised applause-line delivered at last month's Democratic convention.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706216/2008-09-14T20:50:49.270+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706216/U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706059/2008-09-14T20:16:17.453+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26706059/In his 43 years as a General Motors Corp. factory worker, Roger Ezell has seen recessions, gasoline price spikes, sales slumps and multibillion dollar losses.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705862/2008-09-14T20:21:06.010+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705862/Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama raised $66 million in August, a record for a presidential candidate that illustrated his continuing appeal to donors and his robust outreach to new contributors.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705701/2008-09-14T19:45:26.080+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705701/President Evo Morales struggled to assert control over a badly fractured Bolivia on Sunday as separatist protesters set fire to a town hall and blockaded highways in opposition-controlled provinces, impeding gasoline and food distribution.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705585/2008-09-14T20:04:33.840+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705585/Three years ago, an elderly Italian man pulled his van into a South Florida park to sell some rare, 2,500-year-old emeralds plundered from a South American tomb. But Ugo Bagnato, an archaeologist, didn't know his potential customer was a federal agent.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705244/2008-09-14T21:32:58.567+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705244/Top 5: Saving money on airfarehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705139/2008-09-14T18:53:16.813+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26705139/Japan was searching Sunday for an unidentified foreign submarine detected in its territorial waters earlier in the day, the Defense Ministry said.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704969/2008-09-14T20:13:27.847+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704969/“Biggest Loser” alumni Matt &amp; Suzy Hoover, both 32, welcomed their second child on Thursday, People reported.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704951/2008-09-14T18:36:07.083+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704951/The new Interstate 35W bridge, replacing one whose deadly collapse into the Mississippi River scarred the city's image and emotions, may be getting kudos for opening ahead of schedule and restoring a vital traffic link.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704864/2008-09-14T19:01:02.760+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704864/"Lost" star Daniel Dae Kim pleaded no contest to drunken driving charges and was ordered to pay a $500 fine. The actor was scolded by a Hawaiian judge for driving while "seriously impaired."http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704775/2008-09-14T18:42:54.983+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704775/Walgreen Co. made an offer late Friday to buy Longs Drug Stores Corp. for $2.8 billion, hoping to unseat a rival offer from CVS Caremark Corp. that Longs had already accepted.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704729/2008-09-14T18:14:44.513+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704729/An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, the president's spokesman said Sunday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704682/2008-09-14T19:16:29.723+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704682/Israel's government had its first discussion Sunday of a plan to offer West Bank settlers cash to leave their homes, a largely symbolic step taken as the prime minister approaches the premature end of his term.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704671/2008-09-14T18:47:31.040+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704671/Without offering a recommendation, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Sunday the government faces tough choices as it tries to help arrange a rescue of Lehman Brothers without using public money.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704633/2008-09-14T18:25:29.063+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704633/The Creative Arts Primetime Emmys, which recognize technical and other achievements for the 2007-08 season, were handed out on Saturday. The main Emmy ceremony is set for Sept. 21.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704600/2008-09-14T19:46:45.080+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704600/Live from New York ... it's returning "SNL" star Tina Fey as Gov. Sarah Palin. "I can see Russia from my house!" exclaimed the comedian.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704596/2008-09-15T12:52:09.553+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704596/When Jessica Stollings learned on Facebook that John McCain had named Sarah Palin as his running mate, the 26-year-old from Bristol, Tenn., took the day off and picked up some campaign yard signs. Just like that, she went from "just a voter" to a McCain evangelist.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704362/2008-09-14T17:54:40.630+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704362/Scientists have unearthed a camel jawbone in the Syrian desert that they think may be a previously unknown tiny species of the animal and say dates back a million years.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704329/2008-09-14T18:07:50.930+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26704329/The big brass ring for Barack Obama and John McCain in this year’s election may just be “The Bubba Vote.” Meet the Press interim moderator Tom Brokaw discussed the term recently used by Former House majority leader Dick Armey, defined as white working class swing voters who may not be “emotionally prepared to vote for a black man.”http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703995/2008-09-15T02:20:08.050+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703995/Mars Petcare US announced a voluntary recall Friday of all dry pet food products produced at its plant in Everson, Pa. between Feb. 18 and July 29, citing potential contamination with salmonella.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703791/2008-09-25T21:52:49.320+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703791/Who among us hasn't eaten another wing when he's already full? Here's how to control inner conflicts.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703778/2008-11-07T14:05:23.367+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703778/Democrats have the money and reach to add substantially to their House majority in November, but public sentiment is moving in Republicans' direction, according to a poll that suggests the GOP could limit those gains.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703776/2008-09-14T16:48:37.880+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703776/The biggest health threat for men isn't heart disease or cancer. It's the out-of-control stress reactions that cause or worsen those conditions in the first place. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703775/2008-10-24T13:50:59.960+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703775/Pakistani security forces killed at least 16 suspected militants and wounded 25 others Sunday in a besieged tribal region — the latest round of a military offensive with no end in sight, officials said.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703755/2008-09-14T18:12:04.673+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703755/Three roadside bombs planted in succession struck a police convoy in one of Iraq's most dangerous provinces on Sunday, killing five policemen. In Baghdad, the leader of a Sunni group allied with the U.S. died when his booby-trapped car exploded.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703561/2008-09-14T16:10:33.203+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703561/Investigators said audio recordings from a commuter train were missing required verbal safety checks between the engineer and the conductor in right before the train collided, killing 25. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703452/2008-09-15T05:54:52.680+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26703452/Transcript of the September 14, 2008 broadcast of NBC's 'Meet the Press,' featuring former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Bob Woodward, and Chuck Toddhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26702299/2008-09-14T16:19:57.303+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26702299/President Bush said Sunday he will visit Texas on Tuesday to express sympathy for victims of Hurricane Ike and lend support for recovery efforts.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26701387/2008-09-14T13:41:27.517+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26701387/Democrats have the money and reach to add substantially to their House majority in November, but public sentiment is moving in Republicans' direction, according to a poll.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26700745/2008-09-14T12:16:21.540+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26700745/Hurricane Ike's deadly surge has kept thousands of evacuees holed up in some cramped quarters — shelters, RVs, even a warehouse — as they face the prospect of returning to flood-ravaged neighborhoods.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26699413/2008-09-14T13:51:51.600+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26699413/Zimbabwe's opposition will get more Cabinet posts than President Robert Mugabe's party in the long-sought unity government, state radio reported Sunday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26699365/2008-09-14T12:36:28.383+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26699365/<font size="1">The few hundred holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave, and officials said Tuesday they will use emergency powers to empty the area flattened by&#160; Ike.</font> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26695458/2008-09-16T21:37:08.560+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26695458/Veteran firefighter Searcy Jackson III was among the first to arrive at the steaming wreckage of the Metrolink commuter train Friday. Surrounded by blood and agony, he and his crew had to stay focused and act.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26693820/2008-09-14T15:42:24.050+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26693820/Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin made her first solo campaign appearance outside her home state Saturday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26693683/2008-09-14T03:34:28.357+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26693683/The death toll has risen to 254 in a landslide triggered by the collapse of an illegal mining dump, which engulfed a village in northern China, a government official said Sunday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26693638/2008-09-14T19:24:52.247+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26693638/Pump prices jumped above $5 per gallon in some parts of the country Sunday as Hurricane Ike, which caused less destruction than feared, left refineries and pipelines idled and destroyed at least 10 offshore petroleum platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26692387/2008-09-15T00:00:31.697+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26692387/The school system in coastal Baldwin County — 60 miles by 25 miles of Alabama farmland framed on two sides by waterfront towns — was short on teachers, especially in courses such as math and science.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691720/2008-09-14T00:41:15.497+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691720/A jogger grabbed Julie Harmia as she was walking home from a bus stop, shoved his hand into her mouth, dragged her to a vacant lot and raped her.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691714/2008-09-14T00:10:38.610+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691714/A small change in Hurricane Ike's course just before it crashed into the Texas coast Saturday may have spared the state and the nation from significantly worse economic damage.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691469/2008-09-13T23:45:21.170+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691469/An examination of her swift rise and record as mayor of Wasilla and then governor finds that her visceral style and attacks on critics contrast with her carefully crafted public image. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691018/2008-09-13T23:17:32.937+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26691018/The question of whether Sarah Palin has ever been to Iraq pushed Obama aides Saturday to accuse the McCain campaign of outright lies, distortions and distractions to the American people.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26690739/2008-09-13T22:30:51.820+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26690739/Two bombs exploded at a nightspot in a rural town in central Myanmar, killing two people, a state newspaper reported Saturday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26690730/2008-09-13T22:12:05.140+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26690730/Alan Greenspan says the country can't afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by Republican John McCain — at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689925/2008-09-13T20:50:15.920+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689925/Ray Wilkinson considers himself to be the only one "stupid enough" to stay behind when Hurricane Ike&#160; hit Surfside Beach, Texas. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689621/2008-09-13T20:22:31.560+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689621/A man accused of shooting four women and then setting their house on fire to cover up the crime surrendered to police Saturday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689602/2008-09-13T20:14:23.587+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689602/President Evo Morales on Saturday accused an opposition governor of using foreign thugs against government supporters in violence that has claimed at least 18 lives and prompted him to declare martial law in a breakaway province.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689597/2008-09-13T21:48:08.993+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689597/The architects of the iconic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics are bringing their to New York City with a translucent skyscraper designed to look like houses stacked in the sky.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689139/2008-09-13T20:30:29.097+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26689139/Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688692/2008-09-13T19:17:24.620+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688692/For years the shantytown grew in the shadow of a limestone cliff, its wooden shacks and shoddy brick apartments creeping up and spreading over the hill. The whole time, the limestone was cracking inside, slowly and invisibly, from the slum's own sewage.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688681/2008-09-13T19:46:44.023+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688681/Militants fought a rare ground battle with Nigerian armed forces in the country's southern oil region Saturday and threatened to launch reprisals on the oil infrastructure in Africa's biggest crude producer.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688414/2008-09-13T21:40:40.457+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688414/Pakistan's government eased its rhetoric Saturday against unilateral U.S. attacks on militant havens near the Afghan border, saying it hopes quiet diplomacy will persuade Washington that the raids only inflame sentiment against leaders of both countries.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688352/2008-09-13T17:47:04.213+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688352/Passengers and freight trundled again through the tunnel under the English Channel on Saturday, two days after a fierce undersea fire suspended service, injured 14 people and showed the fragility of Britain's only land link to the European continent.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688209/2008-09-13T17:29:04.830+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688209/Gunmen on Saturday abducted and killed four employees of an Iraqi television station who were filming a program about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, one of a series of attacks in Iraq that left at least 18 people dead.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688138/2008-09-13T17:07:24.447+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26688138/Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asked his supporters Saturday to help with recovery from Hurricane Ike and canceled his plans to crack jokes on "Saturday Night Live" in the aftermath of the storm.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26687545/2008-09-13T16:14:06.320+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26687545/Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama asked his supporters Saturday to help with recovery from Hurricane Ike and canceled his plans to crack jokes on "Saturday Night Live" in the aftermath of the storm.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26687519/2008-09-13T16:00:06.383+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26687519/A bomb ripped through an Afghan provincial governor's vehicle on Saturday, killing the politician and three others, officials said.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26686242/2008-09-13T13:11:10.733+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26686242/Russian forces withdrew from several positions in Georgia on Saturday, and a Georgian official said Russia met a deadline for a partial pullout a month after the war between the ex-Soviet republics.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26685831/2008-09-13T19:52:38.097+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26685831/Investigators are reviewing at least 30 unsolved murder cases for possible links to an unidentified serial killer suspected in at least 11 slayings since 1985. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26685444/2008-09-13T11:07:22.237+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26685444/<font size="1">The leading eyewall of Hurricane Ike began battering the upper Texas coast Friday night, menacing nearly a quarter of a million residents who ignored mandatory evacuation orders.</font> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682976/2008-09-15T17:32:27.230+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682976/Mexican police say the bodies of 24 men have been found with their hands bound and shot to death execution-style outside the capital.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682413/2008-09-13T04:31:29.537+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682413/NYT: Sen. John McCain has drawn an avalanche of criticism this week from Democrats, independents and even some Republicans for stretching the truth in attacking Sen. Barack Obama. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682305/2008-09-13T03:45:46.043+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682305/Storm surge driven by Hurricane Ike breached levees in coastal Louisiana Friday and flooded hundreds of homes in areas along the Gulf of Mexico still recovering from Gustav.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682077/2008-09-13T03:28:53.690+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26682077/Bolivian President Evo Morales decreed a state of siege and sent troops Friday to an eastern province after street battles between pro- and anti-government activists.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26681645/2008-09-13T04:46:05.723+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26681645/Fidelity Investments said Friday it will buy back $300 million worth of auction-rate securities from its customers, becoming the first major retail brokerage to make restitution.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26680111/2008-09-12T22:49:37.813+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26680111/Houston's quiet-spoken mayor is hardly one for bold moves. But there was Bill White, telling Houstonians to ride out Hurricane Ike because it was too late to escape.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26680060/2008-09-12T23:00:56.863+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26680060/The worst oil shock since the 1970s has put a permanent mark on the American way of life that even a drop in oil's price below $100 a barrel won't erase.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679948/2008-09-14T17:12:57.273+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679948/As Hurricane Ike races toward Texas, it is pushing a mound of water in front of it that could inundate parts of the Gulf coast with up to 25 feet of water. The surge involves some incredible feats of physics, and in many hurricanes it’s the leading cause of death.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679685/2008-09-12T21:45:13.653+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679685/The Food and Drug Administration has updated the label of Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil, adding new information about its protective effects against two other gynecological cancers.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679672/2008-09-12T22:05:02.317+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679672/More than a million people evacuated southeast Texas ahead of Ike. But citing faith and fate, tens of thousands more ignored calls to clear out, coastal authorities said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679644/2008-09-12T22:55:21.633+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679644/Taxpayers and tax preparers in areas affected by Hurricane Ike will get an extra week to file returns and make payments due Sept. 15, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679230/2008-09-12T21:02:00.763+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679230/A Pentagon advisory group condemned the Air Force for a dramatic deterioration in managing the nation's nuclear arsenal, and recommended it consolidate nuclear responsibilities.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679218/2008-09-12T22:21:34.127+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679218/An overwhelming advantage in experience and lopsided support from working-class and suburban whites have lifted Republican John McCain to a slender lead over Barack Obama less than two months from Election Day, a poll on the presidential race said Friday.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679201/2008-09-12T20:56:25.223+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679201/As parents and employers feel the pinch of the recession, the squeeze is trickling down to teens — who are reinventing their tastes. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679172/2008-10-24T20:11:45.407+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679172/A program introduced in New England this year aims to clean the ocean by collecting everything from nylon nets to wooden lobster traps and burning it to generate electricity.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679169/2008-09-12T20:56:58.567+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26679169/A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 92 miles&#160; between two Hawaiian islands, an achievement that he says proves the technology exists to beam solar power from satellites back to Earth. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678942/2008-09-12T20:48:53.733+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678942/Apple Inc. updated the software that runs its iPhones on Friday in hopes of decreasing dropped calls, improving battery life and cutting the time it takes to synchronize the device with a computer.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678939/2008-09-12T23:47:52.063+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678939/Relations between the U.S.&#160; and Bolivia and Venezuela have chilled this week with the expulsion of U.S. ambassadors in the respective countries. Now Honduras has become part of the rift.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678828/2008-09-12T22:44:01.350+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678828/Honduras is indefinitely postponing the accreditation of the U.S. ambassador.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678686/2008-09-12T20:25:41.963+00:00Nationalhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678686/<description /><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678424/</link><pubDate>2008-09-12T19:54:01.560+00:00</pubDate><category>National</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26678424/</guid></item></channel></rss>