NEW YORK – The bow tie is out at MNSBC. David Gregory is replacing Tucker Carlson as host of a one-hour show each evening. The news network is making a handful of changes to respond to heavy political interest. Gregory’s new show is called “Race for the White” and will …

WASHINGTON – State lawmakers around the country are proposing hundreds of bills this year aimed at curbing illegal immigration, but experts say the cost and public opposition will keep many from becoming law. Lawmakers in at least eight states are now sponsoring legislation similar to Oklahoma, which last May passed …

BAGHDAD – A U.S. warplane strafed snipers in the southern city of Basra, killing at least 16 suspected militants after Iraqi troops came under heavy fire, the American military said. Iraqi police earlier claimed eight civilians, including two women and a child, had been killed in a predawn airstrike in …

OAKLAND, Calif – A woman is safe after losing control of her car and accidently driving into the waters of the Oakland Estuary. But on the upside, she saved her morning coffee. Authorities say the car went into the water a little after 6:00 this morning after its driver apparently …

GLENDALE, Calif. – Sobbing into her hands, John Ritter’s widow on Monday gave jurors in a wrongful-death trial a minute-by-minute account of events leading up to the actor’s death in 2003. Amy Yasbeck sometimes could barely speak through her tears as she recounted the last hours in which she was …

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Vice President Dick Cheney’s office may have leaked an incriminating video of a Canadian terror suspect facing a war-crimes trial, according to a claim filed by the suspect’s lawyers in Guantanamo Bay military court. Lawyers for Omar Khadr say the video, which apparently shows …

A German pilot who shot down 28 allied planes during the war recently learned one of his “kills” was his favorite writer, French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the Sunday Daily Mail reported. “If I had known it was Saint-Exupery, I would never have shot him down,” said Horst Rippert, 88. …

After a judge on Monday ordered Paul McCartney to pay Heather Mills $48.7 million to settle their divorce, McCartney’s lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, emerged from court with a wet head, reportedly from a glass of water that Mills had dumped on her. Mills told reporters Shackleton had been “baptized in court.” …

WASHINGTON – House Democrats unveiled a cautious election-year budget blueprint Wednesday that promises to put the federal budget back in the black while awarding greater-than-inflation increases to domestic programs. But the Democratic budget plan, like a companion plan being unveiled later Wednesday in the Senate Budget Committee, produces sizable surpluses …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Gibson Guitar Corp. has widened its attack on the video game industry with a second patent infringement lawsuit. It claims, in a case filed Thursday in federal district court in Nashville, that by developing, distributing and promoting the video game “Rock Band,” Harmonix, MTV Networks and Electronic …