Good news: The president has saved the economy! Happy days are here again! Yes, the unemployment rate dropped to 10 percent — that’s a 0.2 percent drop. And President Obama is giddy about the news. Here he was Friday in Pennsylvania talking about it: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Global Warming An American researcher is threatening to sue NASA over its alleged distortion of climate change data. This follows revelations that scientists at a British university have changed or destroyed similar information. Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise …

From fancy restaurants and nightclubs to posh hotels and poolside bars, Las Vegas has everything a jet-setting, high roller could desire. But, there’s much more to Sin City than just the casinos, and in a slow economy you’ll find that the land of the rich can also be affordable for …

Stories where Americans or people in the media — or mainly people in Washington — just aren’t using their heads: Dash for the Cash Welcome to bailout nation; we’re all socialists now, remember? It started with the banks. Then it went to the car companies and insurance companies. And now, …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Poll PushTwo weeks after announcingJohn Edwards (search)as his running mate — and just days before heading to Boston to accept the Democratic Presidential Nomination —John Kerry (search)is gaining ground, according to a newFox News/Opinion Dynamics poll. The survey shows the candidates in a dead …

WASHINGTON – The fall political winds may be strong enough to blowDemocrats back into control of the Senate on Election Day, say election watchers, but don’t bet on it. The odds of such success aren’t that good. “I think right now it looks like a slim chance, but it could …

Esteemed actor Martin Sheen has been very vocal in his views against Operation Iraqi Freedom. So vocal in fact, that he voluntarily sealed his mouth shut with duct tape last week during a prayer vigil in Los Angeles, in order to restrain himself from speaking out against the war. And …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says at least eight people, including civilians and soldiers, were killed when a vehicle packed with explosives was remotely detonated in the country’s south. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the governor of Helmand province, says five civilians, two soldiers and a policeman were killed in …

And now the most telling two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! Buying Into a New Theory?A book by a former French envoy to Afghanistan, which offers an alternative to the theory that Wall Street Journal …

NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ defense minister says the country is setting up a satellite earth station that will anchor a search-and-rescue control center covering Europe’s southeastern edge. Christoforos Fokaides told The Associated Press in an interview Monday that the earth station will be Europe’s third such facility, complementing ones in …