NSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – An attorney for Anna Nicole Smith said Friday the reality TV star has no intention of submitting her 6-week-old daughter for paternity testing as demanded by an ex-boyfriend. A lawsuit filed by photographer Larry Birkhead seeks a court order for Smith to bring the girl …

WASHINGTON – Politics used to stop at the water’s edge, but with less than a month before a hotly contested midterm election, even a possible underground nuclear missile test launched by North Korea is President Bush’s fault, several Democrats suggested Monday. “Distracted by Iraq and paralyzed by internal divisions, the …

SAN FRANCISCO – Visa, operator of the world’s largest consumer credit card payment system, said Wednesday it plans to restructure its organization to create a new public company and then sell shares in an initial public offering. In the first step, a new company called Visa Inc. will be created …

ATLANTA – T.I. will have a chance to show why he calls himself “The King.” The Atlanta-based rapper received eight nominations for the BET Hip-Hop Awards, which will air nationally on the cable channel on Nov. 15. Busta Rhymes drew the second-most nominations, six; Chamillionaire got five, while Yung Joc …

WASHINGTON – Democrats elected Harry Reid as their new majority leader on Tuesday to take the reins when the party controls 51 Senate seats in January. “Majority Leader Harry Reid sounds really good to us. And over the next two years, it’s going to sound great to the American people, …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration wants North Korea’s attention, so like a scolding parent it’s trying to make it tougher for that country’s eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters. The U.S. government’s first-ever effort to use trade sanctions to personally aggravate a foreign president expressly …

WASHINGTON – The price of oil sank by more than $2 a barrel Thursday, settling at its lowest level in a year as traders focused on the bearish aspects of conflicting market trends. OPEC is cutting output, but the U.S. economy is slowing; winter is near, but the country has …

WASHINGTON – More senior Pentagon officials are likely to step down in the coming days in the wake of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld‘s announced departure, Pentagon officials told FOX News on Thursday. Meanwhile, at Kansas State University, Rumsfeld said it was the “highest honor in my life” to serve as …

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Authorities on Thursday filed murder and arson charges carrying the death penalty against a man suspected of setting a Southern California wildfire last week that killed five firefighters. The suspect, Raymond Lee Oyler, 36, was already under arrest on suspicion of setting two other wildfires over the …

ANKARA, Turkey – A Turkish Internet celebrity is so convinced he was the inspiration for Sacha Baron Cohen‘s “Borat” character, he’s traveling to London seeking an apology and a way to get paid from the film’s surprise success. Mahir Cagri 44, became a cyber celebrity after posting a personal Web …