AP - Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, gaining power and threatening — once again — to become a hurricane.

AP - Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

AP - The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.

AP - A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge.

AP - Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after floods tore through a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.

AP - Flooding receded Tuesday in southern Texas and main highways reopened after a deluge of as much as 13 inches of rain, as the drenching weather shifted to the northern end of the state and Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Speculation hit a fever pitch on the U.S. vice presidential sweepstakes on Tuesday, with Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain nearing their choices of a No. 2 amid a flurry of sly hints and outright guesses.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale prices shot up in July at the fastest annual rate in 27 years, while home builders cut back on construction as they worked through a glut of unsold homes, government data showed on Tuesday.

TBILISI (Reuters) - The Kremlin said its forces would pull back from Georgia's heartland by Friday to positions set out under a French-brokered peace plan, amid mounting Western criticism about the slowness of the troop withdrawal.

ABOARD THE CHEVRON GENESIS (Reuters) - Republican John McCain took his campaign high above the waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, visiting an offshore oil and gas rig and predicting many more like it along the U.S. coasts if he is elected president.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Jamaica's yam-powered Usain "Lightning" Bolt hopes to become the first man since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win an Olympic sprint double on Wednesday.

BOSTON (Reuters) - A former hedge fund manager was ordered to pay nearly $300 million for having cheated clients by sending out fake account statements, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Tuesday.

Once home to inventor Alexander Graham Bell and hockey great Wayne Gretzky, the small Canadian city of Brantford, Ontario is now home to a terrorist — and the Canadian government might not do anything about it.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russian forces will withdraw from most of Georgia by Friday.

Just two weeks before the start of the Democratic National Convention a string of security scares have federal investigators working to downplay potential terrorist threats

National polls show Obama, McCain virtually even going into conventions, VP announcements

• Obama to Go on Offense at Convention
• RNC: No Pro-Choice VP for McCain
• Obama Schedules Visit to City Where Campaign Began

A tornado touched down in parts of Florida, damaging up to 51 homes as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay barreled inland.

Third-party expert sent to examine purported frozen Sasquatch thaws it out, finds it's completely fake.