1. Hamas has wrestled control of the Gaza Strip from the Western-backed Fatah. It comes on the same day President Mahmoud Abbas declared a state of emergency and announced he's firing the Hamas prime minister and planning to install a new government...
1. Harriet Miers has been ordered to tell Congress what she knows about the firing of eight federal prosecutors. She was subpoenaed today by Democrats who are looking to see if there's a link between the White House and the controversial firings. 2....
1. President Bush made a rare visit to Capitol Hill, lunching with GOP senators, making the case for immigration reform. The president says the status quo isn't acceptable. It's not clear Bush changed any minds among the measures legalizing millions...
Georgia's Attorney General's Office will appeal the court decision today that released the man convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. The judge voided the original ten-year prison sentence, instead finding the man guilty of...
1. Six people are dead after a shooting in a Wisconsin home. Police also found a two-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the chest in a nearby van. The toddler is in serious condition. 2. A roof collapse in a busy Indian market has killed at least...
1. President Bush meets Pope Benedict XVI defending his humanitarian record after the Pope expresses concerns about what he calls the worrisome situation in Iraq. On the streets of Rome, thousands of anti-American protestors denounced Bush. 2. It's a...
1.Screaming and crying, Paris Hilton was escorted out of a courtroom and back to jail after a judge ruled she must serve out her entire 45-day sentence behind bars rather than under house arrest. 2. U.S. Marine Corps General Peter Pace will leave his...
1. The man accused of abducting and killing a teenager from Kansas has made a brief appearance in court. Edwin Hall is charged with murdering Kelsey Smith whose body was found in a wooded area yesterday. 2. The small country of Azerbaijan could play...
1. There is a TB talk on the Hill. Two committees probe the case of Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer who crossed international borders with a rare drug resistance strain of tuberculosis. I was also told I was not contagious. I was told I was not a...
1. A third test for TB bacteria turns up negative for Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta lawyer quarantined in Denver with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. His chances of spreading the disease are low and he could soon leave his isolation room. 2. It's...
1. A video released by al-Qaeda-linked insurgents claims the three American soldiers who vanished after an ambush last month are dead. The video shows close-ups of two ID cards as well as credit cards and American and Iraqi money. 2. An indictment w...
1. Officials in Somalia say the Prime Minister has survived a suicide bombing. The attack struck just outside his home in Mogadishu. At least five people were killed in the bombing which some in the government blamed on an al-Qaeda-linked group. 2. A...
1. Authorities in New York say they've disrupted a terror plot that could have caused unthinkable devastation. Three people are under arrest with investigators looking for a fourth. The plot targeted the pipeline network feeding jet fuel to Kennedy...
1. The Atlanta lawyer quarantined with a rare strain of tuberculosis is said to be doing well at a Denver hospital. The attending physician says Andrew Speaker has a very low level of contagion. Meantime friends of Speaker's are coming to his defens...
1. We now know the identity of the federally-quarantined tuberculosis patient. He is Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old Atlanta attorney. He is now at a Denver hospital that specializes in respiratory disorders. Speaker shuttled around Europe with the in...
