SAN FRANCISCO – A lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program must be dismissed because it threatens to reveal state secrets and jeopardize the War on Terror, the government says. The case was set to go before a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday. The Bush administration argues …

UNITED NATIONS – On April 27, 2005, a U.N. procurement officer named Alexander Yakovlev was working unusually late. At 11:23 p.m. he fired off an e-mail to a food service executive named Andy Seiwert, and by the next morning, something close to panic appeared to be spreading through some of …

CAMDEN, N.J. – Bruce Jackson walked into court Friday with a swagger, 15 inches taller and nearly 100 pounds heavier than the 45-pound teenager found foraging through a trash can for food less than two and a half years ago. With anger in his still high-pitched voice, the 21-year-old took …

WASHINGTON – Over the years, new House Majority Leader John Boehner has built a political empire with similarities to the fundraising machine of the man he’s replacing, Rep. Tom DeLay. The Ohio congressman, who won an upset victory for the House GOP’s No. 2 post, has distributed roughly $2.9 million …

Forecasters predicted another day of warm weather in the Northeast on Friday, while the northern Plains will get colder and a cold-weather system from the Pacific Ocean is expected to bring rain to California. Clouds will spread over the Northeast as the front approaches and the chance of thunderstorms will …

CHICAGO – UAL Corp., parent of United Airlines, will end three years in Chapter 11 protection Wednesday, wrapping up the most expensive airline bankruptcy in history. The No. 2 U.S. airline, which used its time in protection from creditors to slash costs by $7 billion a year, must now sink …

NEW YORK – Stock bulls will push for a third week of gains after last week’s slide in oil below $60 a barrel, but investors will be on the alert for signs of inflation and higher interest rates. The holiday-shortened week will include a rush of earnings from retailers, including …

PARIS – A Paris appeals court fined three photographers $1.19 each for invasion of privacy for taking pictures of Britain’s Princess Diana and boyfriend Dodi Fayed on the night of their fatal 1997 car crash, officials said Wednesday. The appeals court fined them the symbolic sum in a ruling on …

AMIENS, France – The French woman who made medical history as the recipient of a partial face transplant appeared at a press conference Monday, telling the world she was grateful for the operation, a day after she ventured into public in her hometown for the first time. “I now have …

OLYMPIA, Wash. – A popular former governor battling Parkinson’s disease is leading a campaign to pass an assisted-suicide law in Washington state, saying he wants the option for himself when the end is near. “When I go, I want to decide,” said Booth Gardner, who has had the disease for …