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Thousands of people living on the Texan coastline ignored evacuation orders to escape Hurricane Ike's destruction, and now most roads are impassible, which has left many people stranded.

The US Airways plane that crashed in the Hudson River had hit a bird and two engines were disabled.

Finalists for a leading annual literary award were announced Wednesday. The Kirkus Prize awards $50,000 to writers working in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young Readers' Literature.

Tales of Machiavellian office politics are all the rage in China, where "bureaucracy lit" is flying off bookstore shelves. The books are read as both entertainment and as how-to guides for aspiring civil servants. Pioneers of the genre offer a path to success in China's corridors of power.

In Nashville, authorities have arrested the gunman they say killed four people at a Waffle House on Sunday. The suspect had been known to law enforcement and questions are swirling about why he had access to guns.

At least 117 people in 34 states have gotten sick from salmonella infections. U.S. health officials believe two brands of cantaloupe — and dozens of fruit cups and medleys — may have been the cause.

The Philippine president blamed "foreign terrorists" for a bomb blast that killed four people Sunday and wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south.

The conditions closed rail links, schools and roads in some areas. Amtrak said no passenger trains will run between Seattle and Portland, Oregon, until Thursday because of a landslide.

Nearly a week after the South Asian quake, residents of one remote village in northern Pakistan went to Friday prayers in an open field because the quake destroyed the village mosque.

The federal tax rate for U.S. corporations is nearly 40 percent, the second-highest among industrialized nations. Critics say the best way to create jobs would be to lower it. But others say various tax breaks, exemptions and deductions have some paying far lower taxes.