1. Thousands of Hamas supporters took to the streets Thursday to celebrate their victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections. Election officials say the Islamic militant group won 76 seats in Wedne...
1. Former President Gerald Ford has been released from a California hospital. Ford was admitted there two weeks ago for treatment of pneumonia. At age 92, Ford is the oldest living former president. 2...
1. By week's end, Samuel Alito is expected to be on the US Supreme Court. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 along party lines Tuesday to send his nomination to the full Senate. That vote is ex...
1. Major cost-cutting moves were announced Monday at Ford Motor Company. As many as 30,000 jobs will be cut and 14 facilities closed in North America over the next few years in an effort to save billi...
1. Masked Kurdish demonstrators set a bus on fire in Turkey Sunday to protest the solitary confinement of a Kurdish rebel leader. Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy since 1984. 2. West...
1. Still no word on the fate of an American journalist who's been kidnapped in Iraq. Jill Carroll's abductors set a Friday deadline for killing her unless all Iraqi women being held in military custod...
1. After more than 24 hours of searching, rescuers in West Virginia still haven't been able to make contact with two missing miners. Rescue crews have been working since an underground conveyer belt c...
1. A new audiotape supposedly from Osama bin Laden, and Al-Jazeera has aired it. A voice identified as bin Laden says Al Qaeda is making preparations for attacks in the US, but offers a truce to build...
1. The Supreme Court rules a lower court was wrong to strike down New Hampshire abortion restrictions, but steers clear of a major abortion ruling. 2. Consumer prices rose by the largest rate in five...
1. The ACLU files suit to block President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program which the group calls unconstitutional electronic surveillance of American citizens. 2. The Supreme Court uphold Orego...
1. The US and its European allies press Russia and China to support bringing Iran before the UN Security Council over Tehran's nuclear program. 2. Africa makes history as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is swor...
1. As Pakistani anger mounts, intelligence officials say al-Qaida's No. 2 man was invited to dinner at the village hit by a purported CIA airstrike but didn't show up. 2. A suicide car bomb hits a Can...
1.Pakistan condemns a deadly attack in which a purported CIA airstrike unsucessfully targets al Qaeda’s No.2 man in a border village. 2.In Iraq, a court official says the chief judge in Saddam Husse...
1. President Bush and German Chancellor Merkel urge the UN to intervene if Iran won't retreat from resuming its nuclear program. 2. If the UN Security Council does confront Iran over its atomic activi...
1. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito tells senators Americans have a right to designate family members or friends to carry out their right-to-die wishes. 2. At least 110 are killed and 1,000 injured...
