President Barack Obama laid out his first budget plan Thursday predicting a stunning federal deficit of $1.75 trillion this year - nearly four times last year's record - and asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy to stem that flood of red ink while still moving the country toward guaranteed health care for all. ...more

February 27, 2009

Death and destruction are part of daily life in Al Anbar province in Iraq. U.S. soldiers understand that even a routine drive down a road can be ended by mortar fire, missiles, grenades or land mines. So it was for Army Maj. David M. Rozelle on June 21, 2003. ...more

February 22, 2009

80 Percent of Cambodians who support the trials of the Khmer Rouge members 1.7 million to 2 million ...more

February 2, 2009

"I've been so, so shpilkes," fretted an anxiety-ridden Tampa City Councilwoman Linda Saul-Sena, who in the midst of a huge crowd of equally fretting Barack Obama supporters seemed to capture the mood in Yiddish. ...more

November 6, 2008

Graham Rahal's life has been a blur since his historic victory in last month's Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. ...more

May 24, 2008

Sylvester Stallone insisted he would do another "Rambo" flick only if it was about the human condition. ...more

January 27, 2008

Ahem, at the risk of acknowledging a very clothes-challenged emperor in the room, it has been pouted about in some quarters that Hillsborough County school apparatchiks extended special treatment, favoritism and some downright gaga hero worship in approving a special assignment to Plant High School for community living deity Tony Dungy. ...more

January 22, 2008