YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.  

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A Democratic congressional candidate abruptly dropped out of the race Wednesday and said a former campaign worker was linked to an Internet smear aimed at a rival. 

Oil prices surged past $125 per barrel Friday on the eve of the U.S. driving season as a weakening U.S. dollar drove investors to snap up commodities.
 

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, defying electoral math stacked against her, is urging supporters to ignore predictions that her White House bid was over. Barack Obama, meanwhile, was reaching out to top Democrats who could help seal a historic nomination well within his grasp.  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Authorities were waiting for daylight early Friday so they could begin assessing the damage from a reported tornado that killed one person and injured three others in central North Carolina.  

TALLAHASSEE, FL (AP) -- Florida is joining other states in adding more safeguards to protect young Facebook users from sexual predators and cyberbullies. 

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold.  

RICHMOND, VA (AP) -- Peanut farmers in seven states whose crops were devastated by the 2002 drought are entitled to only a little more than half the $30 million in insurance payments ordered by a lower court, a federal appeals panel ruled Thursday. 

NEW YORK (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican John McCain was "losing his bearings" for repeatedly suggesting the Islamic terrorist group Hamas preferred Obama for president.
 

WASHINGTON, DC -- First daughter Jenna Bush is getting ready for her nuptials this Saturday.  It will be a low-key affair at what most call White House West, the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
 

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Sectarian fighting spread through the streets of Beirut on Thursday as Shiite Hezbollah supporters and the Lebanese government's Sunni backers battled with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades shortly after Hezbollah's leader vowed to fight any attempt to disarm his men.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has approved sending states $15 billion to buy and fix up foreclosed properties. 

MOSCOW (AP) -- Vladimir Putin was named prime minister of Russia Thursday after a fervent speech full of ambitious plans that overshadowed his low-key successor and suggested that he will keep a strong hand in ruling the country. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton is pushing on in her race for the Democratic White House bid, despite calls to drop out. She has events scheduled today in the upcoming primary states of Oregon, South Dakota and West Virginia. Barack Obama will be in Washington today.