WASHINGTON – Critics of the USA Patriot Act (search) on Tuesday called for the Senate to temper the anti-terrorism law’s provisions that let police conduct secret searches of people’s homes or businesses, but defenders say since no abuses have been documented the law should be renewed. The Bush administration wants …

PHILADELPHIA – Lawyers for Bill Cosby (search) denied allegations that he drugged and sexually molested a woman at his home but acknowledged that he gave her over-the-counter medication after she complained she was having trouble sleeping. The entertainer offered the woman 1 1/2 tablets of the allergy medication Benadryl during …

See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… Does actress Jane Fonda’s (search) new book, “My Life So Far” have much in common with Ben Franklin’s memoir? The editor-in-chief of “Reason” magazine Nick Gillespie writes in …

HUFFMAN, Texas – A helicopter crashed and broke apart in a wooded area Wednesday, injuring the four people on board, an official said. Some people at a construction site near the crash were also injured by flying debris, said Harris County Sheriff’s official Lt. John Martin. Martin said he had …

LOS ANGELES – The subject is video games, but there’s nothing virtual about it — the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3 (search), proves that the $11-billion-a-year industry is undoubtedly for real. More than 400 exhibitors, 60,000 retailers and game developers — as well as a few big-name celebrities …

Weekdays at 3 p.m. in the East and high noon in the West! The news begins anew with “Studio B”… Two girls, both believed to be eight years old, are found dead in the small town of Zion, north of Chicago. Who’s behind the devastating discovery? A school bus crashes …

NEW YORK – During the thrilling first season of “Lost” (search), viewers of this eerie ABC serial may have felt a little lost themselves. So no wonder these “Lost” fans were hoping to find a few more clues as the two-hour season finale aired Wednesday night. Would there be more …

DULUTH, Ga. – They searched woods and alleys, crawled in sewage drains and stayed up late looking for a local woman who went missing four days before her wedding. When residents of this Atlanta (search) suburb learned that Jennifer Wilbanks (search) ran away because she had cold feet, they thanked …

SAN FRANCISCO – The number of people who use Craigslist.org is expanding at more than 100 percent per year — a growth rate any venture capitalist would covet. But the people who run the 10-year-old community Web site, which gets 8 million unique users and more than 2 billion page …

NEW YORK – American Tower Corp. (AMT) plans to buy Spectrasite Inc. (SSI) for about $3.1 billion, extending its reach as the largest U.S. wireless and broadcast signal tower operator, the companies said on Wednesday. Terms of the deal call for Spectrasite (search) shareholders to receive 3.575 American Tower (search) …