SANTIAGO, Chile – Chile received two U.S. warplanes on Tuesday out of 10 it had ordered from the United States as part of a major military upgrade that has worried some of its South American neighbors. Chile ordered the F-16s in 2002 after the U.S. ended a 20-year ban on …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” January 17, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: We’ve heard about the legal battle over the NSA‘s once-secret eavesdropping program. Now’s there a report there has been fighting over the intel that’s been collected. …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Tucked away in the basement of West Virginia’s gold-domed Capitol, state officials say, an office was secretly transformed into a taxpayer-funded studio that may have been used to pirate DVD videos and music CDs. Administration Secretary Robert Ferguson said his staff stumbled across the office after finding …

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Landslides triggered by heavy rains swept down on a village on Indonesia’s Java island at dawn Wednesday, burying homes beneath tons of mud and leaving dozens of people missing and feared dead, officials said. Most residents of Cijeruk, a village of about 200 people, were at home …

WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called on President Bush Tuesday to “come clean” in next week’s State of the Union speech and acknowledge “the costs of Republican corruption.” “In his 2000 campaign, George Bush promised to bring ‘dignity’ to the White House but we’ve since found that he …

WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. workers making new claims for unemployment benefits rose by a slightly smaller-than-expected 17,000 last week, government data showed Thursday. The Labor Department said 309,000 initial claims for state jobless aid were filed in the week ended Jan. 7 versus a revised 292,000 the prior …

MIAMI – Once-powerful lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to conspiracy and wire fraud stemming from his 2000 purchase of a gambling boat fleet. The plea by Abramoff, 46, before U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck came a day after Abramoff entered guilty pleas to three other …

CAIRO, Egypt – Pan-Arab satellite television broadcasters beamed out largely straightforward, nonstop live coverage early Thursday from outside the hospital where Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon — a particularly despised figure among Arabs — struggled for his life. But a radical Palestinian leader in Damascus, the Syrian capital, called Sharon’s …

Some simple ways to keep those text messages short and sweet: 1 = one, won, want 2 = to, too 4 = for 4VR = forever 8 = ate AFO = adult fan of … ATM = at the moment B = bye B4 = before BBFN = bye-bye for …

WASHINGTON – The government warned on Thursday of a possible Internet attack on U.S. stock market and banking Web sites from a radical Muslim group, but officials said the threat was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger. The notice was issued to the U.S. cybersecurity industry after officials …