WASHINGTON – Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is indicating he is ready to reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support. Brown’s stance, in a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, follows senators’ complaints …
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WASHINGTON – Sales of new U.S. homes rose a much larger-than-expected 13.8 percent in March, the biggest one-month gain since April 1993, but prices fell sharply, a government report showed Wednesday. The pace of new home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted 1.213 million unit annual rate from a downwardly …
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NEW YORK – Transit union leader Roger Toussaint said he’d march across the Brooklyn Bridge with workers before turning himself in Monday for a 10-day jail sentence stemming from the illegal three-day subway and bus strike that crippled the city in December. Labor leaders and unionized workers were expected to …
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SANDHURST, England – Prince Harry stood tall with saber drawn Wednesday during ceremonies marking his graduation from Britain’s elite military academy, marching proudly in front of his beaming grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, as he completed 40 weeks of training. The 21-year-old second son of Prince Charles entered Sandhurst military academy …
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CAIRO, Egypt – No. 2 Al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri praised insurgents in Iraq, particularly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and called on all Muslims to support them in a video posted Thursday on the Internet. The video was dated with an Islamic month corresponding to November 2005 — and al-Zawahiri mentions …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – A Fort Benning soldier missing 12 days before his body was discovered in a downtown hotel died after he got caught in an industrial-sized air conditioner, officials said Saturday. A maintenance worker at the DeSoto Hilton hotel found the man’s body Friday in an area accessible through …
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CINCINNATI – Hey, hey, hey: Bill Cosby has decided it’s time to return to Cincinnati. The 68-year-old comedian, who canceled two shows here in 2002 following the city’s race riots, will moderate discussions on parenting, education and social responsibility April 13 at Xavier University. Cincinnati will be the 19th stop …
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NEW YORK – “The Da Vinci Code,” the mega-selling thriller, does not infringe the copyrights of a book published in 2000 by another author because the books are not substantially similar, a federal appeals court says. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a five-page order this week which …
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WASHINGTON – The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped sharply for a second straight week, pushing total claims down to the lowest level in two months. The Labor Department reported that 304,000 newly laid off workers filed claims for jobless benefits last week, a drop of 20,000 …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Two explosives detonated within minutes of each other in a southern Turkish city Friday, seriously wounding one person and injuring 16 others, officials said. The first blast occurred in front of a bank on a busy road in Adana, injuring two bank employees, Adana police chief Mehmet …
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