This is what the soaring cost of food looks like at street level: Poor people whose food stamps don`t buy as much as they once did rushing into a store in the dead of night on the first day of the month.

Robert Mondavi, who helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the world`s best, died in the valley Friday at 94.

Barack Obama has called President Bush`s comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that`s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."

Barack Obama has called President Bush`s comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that`s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."

John McCain may be pushing for greater changes than the Democrats in the way Americans pay for insurance and how they buy it.

Democrats accused Sen. John McCain Friday of hypocrisy on the question of whether the United States should negotiate with terrorists and dictators, sayingВ  he had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Any outgoing president is an inevitable, sometimes combustible ingredient in the election of his successor. It`s not just George W. Bush and his Knesset comments. Look at Ike, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson.

Barack Obama has called President Bush`s comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that`s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."

John McCain may be pushing for greater changes than the Democrats in the way Americans pay for insurance and how they buy it.

Democrats accused Sen. John McCain Friday of hypocrisy on the question of whether the United States should negotiate with terrorists and dictators, sayingВ  he had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Any outgoing president is an inevitable, sometimes combustible ingredient in the election of his successor. It`s not just George W. Bush and his Knesset comments. Look at Ike, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson.

AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he`s ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.

AP - President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.

AP - A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins.

AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he`s ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.

AP - Michigan and Florida alone can`t save Hillary Rodham Clinton`s campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states` banished convention delegates found little interest in the former first lady`s best-case scenario. Her position, part of a formidable comeback challenge, is that all the delegates be seated in accordance with their disputed primaries.

AP - In President Bush`s hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans portrayed John Kerry as irresolute and weak on national security.

AP - For all the money and competitive zeal of this year`s presidential contest, Democrats and Republicans are having difficulty financing and organizing the independent groups that supplied so much outside muscle in recent presidential campaigns.

Barack Obama has called President Bush`s comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that`s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."

John McCain may be pushing for greater changes than the Democrats in the way Americans pay for insurance and how they buy it.

Democrats accused Sen. John McCain Friday of hypocrisy on the question of whether the United States should negotiate with terrorists and dictators, sayingВ  he had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

Any outgoing president is an inevitable, sometimes combustible ingredient in the election of his successor. It`s not just George W. Bush and his Knesset comments. Look at Ike, Bill Clinton and Lyndon Johnson.

AP - New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick lashed out at the team`s former video assistant Friday, saying in a televised interview that Matt Walsh was a low-level staffer who was fired for "poor job performance." "There`s not a lot of credibility," Belichick said in an interview broadcast on "CBS Evening News."

AP - Peter Magowan, the owner who brought Barry Bonds to San Francisco, built a new ballpark and kept major league baseball in the city, is stepping down as managing partner of the Giants. The 66-year-old Magowan will retire from his duties at the end of the season on Oct. 1 but maintain an ownership stake, the team said Friday.