Cheney accuses Russia of 'brutality' in Georgia Vice President Dick Cheney harshly criticized Russia's military incursion into Georgia on Saturday, calling the action "an affront to civilized standards."
'Extremely dangerous' Ike pounds Turks and Caicos Hurricane Ike struck the Turks and Caicos Islands as a Category 4 storm late Saturday night with winds near 135 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. The powerful storm's path was expected to take it by the southeastern Bahamas early Sunday and near eastern Cuba Sunday night or early Monday.
Strike shuts down Boeing Workers at Boeing walked off the job on Saturday after nearly two days of around-the-clock talks failed to avert what could one of the nation's most disruptive strikes in more than a decade.