WASHINGTON – U.S. retail gasoline prices declined for the ninth week in a row and truckers are enjoying the cheapest diesel fuel in almost four months, the Energy Department (search) said Monday. The national pump price for regular unleaded gasoline fell 1.3 cents over the last week to $1.778 a …

Steps away as the president introduced John Roberts (search) as a choice for the Supreme Court, the nominee’s young son danced the heart out of his saddle shoes. The boy’s mother had a less-than-approving look on her face as she watched. At one point, she even held 4-year-old Jack by …

OAKRIDGE, Ore. – A man and a woman who were found slain in the woods have been identified as a pair of Oakridge educators. The bodies of Stevan Haugen (search), 54, and Jeanette Bauman (search), 56, were found by campers Friday near a U.S. Forest service road, about 25 miles …

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Gov. Robert Ehrlich (search), responding to complaints about a fund-raiser at a golf club that critics say does not have any black members, described the flap Tuesday as “all a bunch of nothing.” “We have no access to the membership information. Obviously, we’re renters. We come in …

John G. Roberts Jr. (search) began his confirmation campaign Wednesday to nail down Republican Senate support and overcome Democrats’ fears that he would push the nation’s highest court far to the right on abortion and other polarizing issues. While Republicans are praising President Bush’s Supreme Court (search) nominee, most Democrats …

WASHINGTON – Already saddled with resolving a looming nuclear showdown with Iran, the Bush administration now faces the possibility that that country’s new leader helped take 52 Americans hostage in 1979. “Many questions” have been raised by six former U.S. hostages who have identified Iran’s President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (search) as …

ISTANBUL, Turkey – A bomb exploded Saturday at an Istanbul cafe frequented by tourists, injuring at least two people, police said. The blast at a cafe near the city’s Galata bridge (search) was caused by either a remote-controlled bomb or a bomb with a timer, police said. A Dutch citizen …

Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! Feeling a bit “land-locked” Tuesday, I made a bunch of phone calls to Aruba to get more information. I spoke briefly — very briefly – with Police Commissioner Jan van der Straaten (search). He was not …

WASHINGTON – The government must focus on preventing airline hijackings and other terror threats that could inflict mass casualties, and is limited in the help it can give cities and states to protect trains and buses, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (search) said Thursday. His comments, in an Associated Press …

WASHINGTON – House and Senate negotiators are awaiting completion of an $11.5 billion tax package before giving final approval to an sweeping compromise energy bill (search) that Congress hopes to send to President Bush by week’s end. The conferees approved the non-tax measures early Tuesday in a session that lasted …