TAMPA, Fla. – In a stinging defeat for prosecutors, a former Florida professor accused of helping lead a terrorist group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israel was acquitted on nearly half the charges against him Tuesday, and the jury deadlocked on the rest. The case against Sami Al-Arian, …

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – Using data that tracks 200 years of changes in the Chesapeake Bay, a team of environmental scientists has found that nutrient pollution has fundamentally altered the variety of aquatic life in the bay. “Nature doesn’t disappear … it changes,” said W. Michael Kemp, a researcher at the …

MONTREAL – This year is likely to go down as the hottest, stormiest and driest ever, making a strong case for the urgent need to combat global warming, a report released Tuesday at the U.N. Climate Change Conference said. The year 2005, the World Wildlife Fund said, is shaping up …

Join host Brit Hume and FOX’s Team Washington weekdays at 6 p.m. ET for “Special Report” — Find out what’s happening inside the Beltway and on the world stage on tonight’s show. • President Bush called Republican congressional leaders to the White House today to help shore up support for …

Join host Brit Hume and FOX’s Team Washington weekdays at 6 p.m. ET for “Special Report” — Find out what’s happening inside the Beltway and on the world stage on tonight’s show. • Following their decision last winter — to boycott the election for Iraq’s interim national assembly — Sunni …

CAIRO, Egypt – Al Qaeda‘s deputy leader said in an audiotape aired Saturday that Taliban‘s fighters control large areas in Afghanistan and are fighting American forces and the U.S-backed Afghan government. It was not clear when the tape purportedly by Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri was recorded. Dubai-based Al-Arabiya …

LOS ANGELES – Digital video recording pioneer ReplayTV plans to announce on Monday it will start selling software to allow personal computers to tune in and record live television next year in a deal with Hauppauge Digital’s (HAUP) Hauppauge Computer Works. Hauppauge’s WinTV-PVR tuner-encoder card, which lets PCs tune in …

CLAREMORE, Okla. – Country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood said “I do” on Saturday in a private ceremony at their Oklahoma home. Brooks, an Oklahoma native, and Yearwood exchanged vows before family members, said Nancy Seltzer, a publicist for the couple. “They said it is the perfect Christmas …

NEW YORK – AT&T Inc. (T), formed by SBC Communications’ purchase of AT&T Corp, said on Thursday it is planning the biggest ad campaign in the history of either company in a bid to convince customers to stay as competition heats up from cable television rivals. AT&T spent about $20 …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A prosecutor announced Saturday he would seek the death penalty against a man charged with beheading his 3-year-old stepdaughter, whose body was unidentified for nearly four years and was known only as “Precious Doe.” Harrell Johnson, 26, was initially charged with second-degree murder in the death …