MOSCOW – Russia’s Federal Security Service (search) said Tuesday that it had paid a reward of US $10 million for information on the exact location of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov (search). Maskhadov was killed last week in a special operation in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, in northern Chechnya. The …
Read More »DeLay Pounded But Still Unscathed
WASHINGTON – House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (search) was warmly greeted Tuesday by Republicans gathered in a hotel banquet room to discuss tax reform and Social Security despite being under the constant watch of investigators and Democrats looking for a weak spot. In fact, the music chosen for the Texas …
Read More »Extra Security Troops in Hostage Shooting
BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. troops who mistakenly killed an Italian agent last week on the road to Baghdad’s international airport were part of extra security provided by the U.S. Army to protect U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte (search), a U.S. official said Thursday. Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari (search) was killed …
Read More »Rice Won't Run For White House
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) on Sunday ruled out running for president, responding to speculation fueled by a recent poll showing support for a Rice candidacy. Rice told The Washington Times last week, “I have never wanted to run for anything,” although she seemed to leave the …
Read More »Legal Wrangling Continues
WASHINGTON – The feeding tube that has kept a severely brain-damaged woman alive for the past 15 years has been removed, FOX News has confirmed, but legal wrangling continued Friday as lawmakers fought over the fate of Terri Schiavo. Lawyers from the U.S. House of Representatives went to Florida to …
Read More »Greenspan Sees Trade Deficit Stabilizing
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve (search) Chairman Alan Greenspan (search) said Friday that a variety of factors from a weaker dollar to tougher budget discipline in Congress may finally start to restrain the explosive growth in the U.S. trade deficit. Greenspan, however, cautioned that the global economy is essentially in uncharted …
Read More »Settlement Unlikely in Tobacco Suit
WASHINGTON – When a federal appeals court took away the Justice Department’s (search) biggest hammer in its civil suit against tobacco companies — the possibility of a $280 billion penalty — it may have made a settlement unlikely in the five-year-old case, according to legal analysts. “I don’t think the …
Read More »NASA Budget Kills Hubble
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With the moon on its horizon, NASA (search) sees a slight increase in the budget proposed by President Bush on Monday, but it’s not enough to save the Hubble Space Telescope (search). Only $93 million in the space agency’s $16.45 billion budget would go toward Hubble’s …
Read More »White House: Bombers Must Pay
WASHINGTON – The White House says those responsible for Monday’s bombing in Lebanon must be punished for the murder of the former prime minister and others caught in the brutal attack on the city’s center. “The United States will consult with other governments in the region and on the Security …
Read More »Armstrong to Ride in Tour de France Again
PARIS – Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong (search) will attempt his seventh consecutive win in cycling’s most prestigious race this summer. Armstrong’s schedule “will include this summer’s Tour de France (search), where he will go for a seventh straight victory,” his Discovery Channel team said on its Web …
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