This is a rush transcript from “America’s News HQ,” November 20, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. JON SCOTT, HOST: A FOX News exclusive now: Joran Van der Sloot, the prime suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance, making news once again. Allegations of …

GREENSBORO, N.C. – One of two men accused in the death of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president made his first appearance in federal court and faces execution if he is convicted. Demario Atwater appeared Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Greensboro on several charges, …

An Iraq war veteran who waved a gun and an American flag on a Highway 101 overpass and stopped traffic for hours in Santa Barbara last month has been ordered by a judge to stay away from Tom Cruise. Edward Van Tassel, 28, with help from his sister, has appeared …

RICHMOND, Va. – Gov. Tim Kaine pardoned a Newport News woman Tuesday, days before she faces deportation for a 1997 credit card theft conviction. It was a simple pardon, which is an official forgiveness for the crime. Kathryn Anne Ingleson’s fate remains in the hands of federal immigration officials, who …

WASHINGTON – New questions emerged Friday about John Edwards’ longtime chief fundraiser and secret efforts that protected the pregnant woman with whom the former presidential candidate has admitted a shameful affair in 2006. Fred Baron, Edwards’ national finance chairman and a wealthy Dallas-based trial attorney, has acknowledged he quietly began …

NEW YORK – Divers were resuming their search Saturday for a 16-year-old girl apparently swept away by a current while swimming near Rockaway Park beach in Queens. The U.S. Coast Guard said search crews on Friday focused on a 5-mile-wide stretch and searched for hours. Firefighters and police were on …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Honking cars, singing crowds, overflowing bars: The streets of Sarajevo were jammed with euphoric crowds early Tuesday as Bosnian Muslims celebrated the arrest of Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia’s most wanted war crimes suspect. News of the Monday evening arrest of the former Bosnian Serb leader spread throughout the …

WASHINGTON – Libya’s remarkable transformation from U.S. foe to friend is almost complete. Despite unresolved terrorism and human rights concerns, the United States took another step toward ending decades of hostility with the North African nation on Thursday as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the Libyan foreign minister …

WASHINGTON – Marvin Anderson and other men exonerated by DNA evidence said Wednesday they want Attorney General Michael Mukasey to start doling out federal money to help states analyze evidence that led to other convictions. “It’s fear,” Anderson, of Hanover, Va., said of the bureaucratic resistance to clearing the way …

PURCHASE, N.Y. – A freshman at a private suburban college who grew up on the campus as the daughter of a maintenance worker was found dead in staff housing, and police on Tuesday characterized it as a homicide that was a family matter. Harrison police Capt. Anthony Marraccini said investigators …