KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Fighting across southern Afghanistan has left 28 suspected Taliban rebels dead, officials said Monday, amid stepped up violence in the countdown to crucial legislative elections next month. Meanwhile, U.S. Marines and Afghan Special Forces in eastern Kunar province (search) Monday pushed deeper into Korengal Valley (search), which …
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See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on! It’s an O’Reilly Factor Investigation — Joran van der Sloot (search) exposed!They’ve kept quiet… but now his former American girlfriend’s parents want the truth to be told… What …
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TRENTON, N.J. – Senator and gubernatorial candidate Jon S. Corzine (search) loaned the president of New Jersey’s largest state workers union $470,000 when the two were romantically involved three years ago, then forgave the debt last year. Corzine defended the transaction, first described in reports Thursday in The Star-Ledger of …
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PARIS – Lance Armstrong went on the offensive Wednesday, saying it was “preposterous” for the Tour de France director to suggest the legendary cyclist “fooled” race officials and the sporting world by doping. Comments by Tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc appeared in the French sports daily L’Equipe on Wednesday, a day …
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HOUSTON – A pilot flew his single-engine plane into restricted air space near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford and was escorted back to the Houston area by fighter jets, officials said Thursday. No criminal charges were expected to be filed against the pilot, whose name wasn’t released. The pilot violated …
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NEW YORK – When Victoria Gotti (search) learned she had breast cancer, she kept the news to herself — hiding her draining treatments from her three sons and the producers of their reality show, “Growing Up Gotti.” (search) With the show set to begin its third season on the A&E …
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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee John Roberts (search) once offered the National Mining Association some unpaid advice on how to intervene in other people’s court cases. Two years later he was hired by the group to argue against a citizens group trying to stop coal companies from shearing off the …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – They had roots in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Jamaica: the suspected Al Qaeda foot soldiers in Britain were immigrants or were children of immigrants — a new breed of recruits that underscores the changes in the organization since the Sept. 11 attacks, say experts studying the London …
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Election Commission voted Thursday to let members of Congress raise unlimited “soft money” to fight Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s redistricting plan in California. The 6-0 decision came in response to a request from Reps. Howard Berman (search), D-Calif., and John Doolittle (search), R-Calif., both of whom oppose …
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CHICAGO – McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) on Monday posted a stronger-than-expected 4.9 percent gain in global July sales at its namesake hamburger restaurants open at least 13 months, helped by solid demand in France and Germany. Wall Street analysts had expected an increase ranging from 2 percent to 3 percent, according …
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