FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In the summer, the Denali Highway is a popular tourist destination.
The crude 135-mile "highway" intersects with Alaska’s two major highways — the Parks and Richardson — and cuts through the heart of the Alaska Range, offering spectacular views of snow-capped mountains and alpine tundra.
There is not another road in Alaska like it, [...]

Champion of prostitutes, drug dealers, white supremacists and anti-war activists like MoveOn.org, Code Pink, libertarian Lew Rockwell and girl friend Cindy Sheehan, Ron Paul is raising money from outside of the Republican Party and counting on one day party-jumpers to secure the Republican nomination.
In terms of fund-raising, Paul really is setting campaign records. He has [...]

If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to computer-security researchers who’ve analyzed a recent flurry of e-mail supporting the long-shot Republican candidate.
"This is clearly a criminal [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – Google’s (GOOG) $3.1 billion bid for Internet advertiser DoubleClick gained federal approval Thursday despite objections that it might pose a threat to competition and tread on consumer privacy.
The Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1, ending its eight-month investigation. “After carefully reviewing the evidence, we have concluded that Google’s proposed acquisition of DoubleClick is [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa – Senator Barack Obama is on the hunt for Iowans who have never participated in the state’s presidential caucuses, including independent voters under 50 and students who will be 18 by the general election.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is searching for Iowans who have skipped the caucuses in the past and who, because [...]

AOL on Friday stopped development of the Netscape browser, saying the respected brand that launched the commercial Internet in 1994 had little chance of ever regaining market share against its archrival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
The Web portal, which took over Netscape Navigator in the $4.2 billion acquisition of Netscape Communications in 1999, said development on the [...]

EDWARDSPORT, Ind. – From the top of a hill here in coal country, you can see distant swells of smoke curling up from coal-fired power plants along the flat horizon. Even here, in a town of only 348 residents, a small coal plant has operated off and on since World War II.
But that plant might [...]

John Paul Getty, a self made billionaire, was quoted that the way to become rich is to buy when everyone is selling, hold on to it, and sell when everyone is buying.
People, who follow his advice, do extremely well. The majority of us do the opposite. We wouldn’t buy until every newspaper
and every broadcast screams [...]

TOKYO – An 89-year-old woman died after an ambulance crew spent two hours trying 30 hospitals before finding one that would accept her for treatment, Japanese officials said Friday.
The woman’s family called an ambulance early Tuesday morning after she became ill with vomiting and diarrhea, said Hideto Matsumoto, a fire official in Tondabayashi City, Osaka [...]

DES MOINES (Reuters) – Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton may have shot herself in the foot trying to get Iowa voters to pledge support to her — she is encouraging them to go caucus on January 14, 11 days too late.
At a rally featuring her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Saturday, campaign workers [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Two significant earthquakes shook Alaska’s seismically active Aleutian Islands, but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
The magnitude-5.9 and 6.1 quakes struck about one minute apart starting at 9:23 p.m. on Thursday. Both were centered about 100 miles west of Adak in the island chain, according to a [...]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan is urging provincial authorities to obey health guidelines to stop any bird flu outbreaks after fears lapses in poultry culling methods led to eight people being infected with the H5N1 virus.
The Health Ministry is sending out messages via radio and pamphlets to villages and farms in North West Frontier Province, where [...]

The infamous Tunguska explosion, which mysteriously leveled an area of Siberian forest nearly the size of Tokyo a century ago, might have been caused by an impacting asteroid far smaller than previously thought.
The fact that a relatively small asteroid could still cause such a massive explosion suggests “we should be making more efforts at detecting [...]

A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere—thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars—has left astronomers baffled.
The blast, one of the brightest this year, was detected by spacecraft from the Inter-Planetary Network on Jan. 25 and satellites were used to pinpoint its location to a region of the sky in [...]

WARSAW, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Five chickens have been found infected with the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus on a private farm in Poland in the latest outbreak of the disease in the country, state news agency PAP said on Monday.
Emergency services set up a safety perimeter around the site near the northern city of [...]