Boeing 777 crashes while landing at SFO  —  Sponsored Links  —  SAN FRANCISCO —  An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 arriving from a flight South Korea crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning, bursting into flames, authorities said.

EGYPT: ELBARADEI'S APPOINTMENT PUT ON HOLD  —  You are here  —  Home » Mohamed Morsi » Egypt: ElBaradei's appointment put on hold  —  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's new president moved to assert his authority and regain control of the streets Saturday even as his Islamist opponents declared …

Experts: John Kerry's credibility could sink with boat flap  —  By:  —  John F. Kerry's credibility took on more water on the second day of his Nantucket vacation flap, as the State Department backed off its initial denial the embattled secretary of state was yachting during the Egyptian military coup …

Runaway freight train explodes, levels center of Canada town  —  (Reuters) - A driverless freight train carrying tankers of crude oil derailed at high speed and exploded into a giant fireball in the middle of a small Canadian town early on Saturday, destroying dozens of buildings and leaving an unknown number of people feared missing.

Venezuela, Nicaragua Talk Asylum for Edward Snowden, but Could He Get There?  —  Venezuela and Nicaragua reportedly are prepared to throw Edward Snowden a lifeline — if he can get there.  —  The accused NSA leaker has been stuck in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremedevo International Airport …

In Wyoming, a Cheney Run Worries G.O.P.  —  LUSK, Wyo. — A young Dick Cheney began his first campaign for the House in this tiny village — population 1,600 — after the state's sole Congressional seat finally opened up.  But nowadays, his daughter Liz does not seem inclined to wait patiently for such an opening.

Thom Hartmann: View from the left  —  Thom Hartmann may be the most popular progressive you've never heard of.  —  His nationally syndicated radio show draws 2.75 million listeners a week, he's a New York Times bestselling author and he hosts a nightly television show.

Lincoln's Surveillance State  —  COLCHESTER, Vt. — BY leaking details of the National Security Agency's data-mining program, Edward J. Snowden revealed that the government's surveillance efforts were far more extensive than previously understood.  Many commentators have deemed the government's activities alarming and unprecedented.

In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.  —  WASHINGTON — In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation's surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the National Security Agency the power to amass vast collections of data on Americans while pursuing not only terrorism suspects …

Can libertarian populism save the Republican Party?  —  The dream of the '90s is alive in the conservative movement.  There's a new name being floated around as the solution to the current electoral woes of the GOP: Ross Perot.  —  Reform party presidential candidate Ross Perot gives a thumbs up to supporters in 1996 in Dallas.