WASHINGTON – In the latest Democratic challenge to Judge Samuel Alito, Sen. Charles Schumer on Thursday urged the Supreme Court nominee to detail any role he played in drafting the Reagan administration’s 1985 request for reversal of a landmark abortion rights ruling. Schumer said in a letter that it was …

MIAMI – Shortly after boarding an Orlando-bound plane, passengers say, they saw a man bolt from his seat and run down the aisle, with his screaming wife and man in a Hawaiian shirt behind. “My husband! My husband!” one passenger said she heard the wife cry. The chase ended moments …

MINNEAPOLIS – President Bush pulled out his tough-on-terrorism speech from his last campaign and said on Friday that the United States would wage an unrelenting battle in Iraq to protect Americans at home. “Our short-term objective is to stay on the hunt and bring the killers to justice before they …

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AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan’s military court sentenced Al Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to death for a second time Sunday for a failed suicide bombing along the Iraqi border a year ago. Al-Zarqawi and a second militant were sentenced in absentia. A third, Saudi Fahd Noman Suwelim al-Feheiqi, …

MOSCOW – Russia‘s foreign spy chief said military forces from other countries deployed at bases along Russia’s periphery are a threat to the nation, a Russian news agency reported Monday. In comments that appeared directed at U.S. forces deployed on bases in former Soviet countries, the Interfax news agency quoted …

CROSS PLAINS, Texas – Firefighters gained the upper hand on wildfires that raced through Texas and Oklahoma, killing four people, but officials worried about a forecast for more warm and windy conditions and the possibility of fireworks-caused blazes on New Year’s Day. Oklahoma and much of Texas remained under burning …

MILWAUKEE – A man yanked from his car and beaten by a mob of young people was doing better at a hospital Thursday, but police said there were still no arrests in the case. “It’s just senseless,” Linda Johnson, wife of Samuel McClain, said in a statement released Wednesday by …

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A new study gives encouraging signs that a hormonal drug used to fight breast cancer might help prevent abnormal prostate growths (search) from turning into cancers. Men who took low doses of the drug toremifene (search) for a year cut their chances of developing prostate cancer (search) roughly in half, …