Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of the presidential election candidates. In an exclusive interview with CNN's Matthew Chance, Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia.

Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28,1963, Martin Luther King Jr. shared his vision for a new America:

Conventions are about politics, not policies, so it's not surprising that we've lately been preoccupied with Hillary Clinton's body language and John McCain's real estate.

Here at the Glenn Beck program, the budget isn't exactly that impressive. We're not the federal government, with a limitless American Express card that we never have to pay off.

Tropical Storm Gustav is expected to strengthen into a hurricane later today, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm now has top sustained winds near 70 mph, just shy of hurricane status. The storm killed at least 22 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Everywhere one looked, desperation stared back.

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Senior U.S. and Pakistani military commanders held a secret meeting this week to discuss the growing Taliban and al Qaeda threat in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.

Authorities believe four men started out on the same boat and currents, tides and Tropical Storm Fay carried their bodies over 30 miles along the Florida Keys. Sharks and other marine life ravaged the corpses, making identification all but impossible. Were they smugglers? Immigrants seeking a better life? Hapless boaters? The Monroe County sheriff is investigating.