Absentee ballots were mailed to 300 voters in Rensselaer County, New York with Barack Obama's last name misspelled. On the ballots, his last name is printed as "Osama". Election officials on either side say this was an honest, typographical mistake.

American soldiers in Iraq describe how they use "drop weapons" to avoid being charged with crimes when they kill innocent civilians.

It has been learned recently that Barack Obama was asked by the family of Sgt Ryan David Jopek, KIA by a roadside bomb in Iraq, to stop wearing their son's bracelet. The request came when it was apparent that he wore it for political reasons.

Barack Obama hopes to appoint a Chief Technology Officer. John McCain wants to award $300 million to the inventor of an eco-friendly car battery. Now more than ever, the tech policies of candidates are under scrutiny as wired voters have their say.

Academy-Award winning actor Paul Newman, who personified cool has died. Newman passed away Friday surrounded by his family and close friends after a long battle with cancer according to his publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was 83.

Yves Rossy is a Swiss daredevil and is the first person to cross the English Channel using a jet-propelled wing strapped to his back.

The US National Institute of Mental Health drops a controversial study of chelation therapy for children with autism. The agency says there are better uses for its resources.

Small island developing nations contribute least to climate change but are under imminent threat of inundation due to rising sea levels.

'The Godfather' is the best film of all time. So say a team of renowned filmmakers in a survey conducted by Empire magazine. Who are we to argue? We loved it.

On Wednesday, police were called to where a naked man was climbing on a fire escape, ranting and screaming. The man climbed to a ledge, picked up a fluorescent tube and swung it at the police. An officer fired his Taser and the man fell to his death.

Jodie Evans, a member of Code Pink and a bundler for Barack Obama according to his website, was part of a group of activists that met with Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Wednesday September 24, 2008.

Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg, West Virginia decided to pass and direct wind at the officer who was preparing a breathalyzer test on Tuesday. That act got the man another charge added to him.

The United Nations Genocide Convention classifies "incitement to commit genocide" as a Crime Against Humanity. If you could have stopped Hitler, would you have? Ahmadinejad is "the new Hitler." CLICK THE LINK TO VIEW THE SHORT VIDEO...

John McCain is asking to delay Friday's debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama, instead he wants to work with Obama to resolve the financial crisis. This comes after Obama asked for a meeting to discuss the crisis.

Earlier today, John McCain suggested Friday's presidential debate should be canceled so he could travel to Washington to focus on Wall Street bailout negotiations. Further reports now indicate he suspended his campaign and advertising entirely.

The world’s richest man, Warren Buffett, called the Wall Street crisis “an economic Pearl Harbor” and backs Paulson’s $700 billion proposal.

After changing her previous stance to cooperate with the Alaska State Legislature in the so-called "Troopergate" investigation, Sarah Palin has agreed to Cooperate with the States Personnel Board in its separate investigation.

A rather large 80 Kg pig has wandered onto a property in Australia. All was well until the pig snapped a broom stick in half with it's mouth and tore a mattress to shreds.

Angry workers in Noida (a suburb near New Delhi), India decide to apply mob law and in a mob frenzy lynch the CEO of the company. Is this another harbinger of increasingly intolerant times?

South African archbishop Desmond Tutu has said that Israel may have committed a war crime when it attacked the town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza two years ago.