The News reader from Sicilian.Net

The nation?s unemployment rate zoomed to a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August as employers slashed 84,000 jobs, the government said Friday.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landed in Libya on Friday, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century.

Invigorated by back-to-back political conventions, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama grappled for the mantle of change Friday as the fall race for the presidency took off.

John McCain accepts the Republican presidential nomination with a dual message: Barack Obama did not have the judgment to govern, whereas he himself could reach across party divisions.

Corpses surfaced in the muddy wreckage of a flooded Haitian city Friday as floodwaters receded after Tropical Storm Hanna, raising the known death toll to 137. Many more likely perished.

The United States is committed to Ukraine's security and freedom, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney pledged Friday.

Cell phones have long been anathema in the classroom, banned as a potential distraction, at best, and as a possible vehicle for cheating, at worst. But lately, educators have begun changing their tune on mobile phones.

Some in the Carolinas prepared to head inland Friday ahead of Tropical Storm Hanna, while others decided to ride out what could become a small hurricane before crashing ashore overnight.

A man who as a teen helped shoot and kill five people in a schoolyard ambush was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison on an unrelated federal weapons charge.

It's the Mideast version of a sordid soap opera. A Lebanese pop star is murdered. Arrested in her death: A well-connected Egyptian businessmen, accused of paying $2 million to have her killed.