BAGHDAD, Iraq – A car bomb exploded outside an air base used by U.S. forces near Dijiel, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military and police said. One American soldier and two Iraqi civilians were wounded, said Army Sgt. Robert Powell, a spokesman for the 1st Infantry Division. …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. warplanes fired on insurgent targets in the east Baghdad slum of Sadr City (search) on Thursday in a second day of fighting in the Shiite militia stronghold. Iraqi doctors said one person was killed and 12 were injured, many of them children. The U.S. military said …
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SAN FRANCISCO – John Walker Lindh (search)asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding the Taliban. His lawyer, James Brosnahan, said that Lindh was fighting alongside theTaliban (search)in a civil war against the Northern Alliance, that he is not a terrorist and that he never …
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LAS VEGAS – After threats of legislation by Nevada’s senators, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has abandoned attempts to get footage of theRoy Horn (search)tiger attack. The USDA had sought the video as part of its investigation into last year’s incident but reluctantly agreed instead to just view the footage, …
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This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” Sept. 8, 2004, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “On the Record” every weeknight at 10 p.m. ET! GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Now to a murder mystery in Kansas City, six people found murdered in an 18-block radius. Is one …
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WASHINGTON – Theeconomy (search)grew at a 4.4 percent annual rate in the first quarter of this year, slightly faster than previously thought and fresh evidence that the recovery possessed good momentum as it headed into the current quarter. The increase in gross domestic product from January through March reported by …
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NEW YORK – Developers of theFreedom Tower (search)will break ground on the 1,776-foot skyscraper at the World Trade Center site on July 4, The Associated Press learned Wednesday. “On July 4, as we commemorate the founding of our nation, we lay the foundation for our resurgence,” Gov. George E. Pataki …
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – This year’s presidential election is going to be a class war: Class of ’68 versus Class of ’66. “If Yalies were going to vote based on who’s an alum, you’d have to flip a coin,” said sophomore Alissa Stollwerk, secretary of theYale College Democrats (search). President …
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WASHINGTON – Expressing dismay about a close ally, the White House said Thursday thePhilippines (search)was sending “the wrong signal to terrorists” by withdrawing its military forces fromIraq (search)to save the life of a kidnapped truck driver. “There is no negotiation with terrorists,” White House press secretary Scott McClellan said. “There …
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NEW YORK – A construction worker who admitted strangling an actress and then hanging her body to make it look like a suicide was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday. Diego Pillco, a 20-year-old illegal immigrant from Ecuador, had pleaded guilty in February to first-degree manslaughter in exchange …
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