House Bill Would Insure Up To $260,000 In Retirement Accounts
KOTV - 54 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) _ While he's not winning many converts, President Bush's focus on Social Security does have more people thinking about their retirement nest eggs. Responding to a White House-endorsed trend

Australia & New Zealand
Bloomberg - 2 hours ago May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said a televised appeal today by the family of Douglas Wood could help win his freedom from kidnappers in Iraq. A videotape showing a man identifying

Update 9: WTO Ministers Agree on Farm Deal
Forbes - 2 hours ago Trade ministers lifted a serious obstacle from the path to a much-delayed global trade deal on Wednesday, breaking a deadlock on agriculture tariffs that had pitted the European Union against influential trade powers like Brazil and Australia.

Injured Man Abruptly Ends 9 Years of Silence
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - 17 hours ago NEW YORK — Doctors sought Tuesday to understand why a brain-damaged firefighter snapped to attention after nearly a decade of sitting silently in a wheelchair and watching television at his nursing home.

Judge Declares Mistrial In Abu Ghraib Case
Free Internet Press - 1 hour ago A military judge on Wednesday threw out Army Pfc. Lynndie England's guilty plea in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, declaring a mistrial after testimony suggested England did not know her actions were wrong.

World awaits Iran's next move
Salon - 25 minutes ago By Charles J. Hanley. May 4, 2005 | United Nations -- As the world awaited Iran's next move on a nuclear chessboard, backroom talks dragged on here Wednesday to set an overdue agenda for a conference — already

Fed Continues Measured Pace For Raising Rates
WebProNews - 4 hours ago The Fed said that it will continue to raise interest rates at a measured pace as it promised before. While it acknowledged recent weaker economic data that had led to suggestions that the economy was entering

Pentagon analyst charged with disclosing secrets
Reuters - 3 hours ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Defense Department analyst was arrested on Wednesday on charges of disclosing top-secret information on potential attacks on American forces in Iraq to two employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group.

Bush hails arrest of al-Qa'eda number three
Telegraph.co.uk - 39 minutes ago By Nasir Malick in Islamabad and Francis Harris in Washington. A senior al-Qa'eda figure, described by American officials as number three in the terrorist network, was under interrogation last night after being arrested in Pakistan.

Dozens die in Kurdish city suicide blast
Telegraph.co.uk - 39 minutes ago By Oliver Poole in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed at least 46 people and wounded 150 in the Kurdish city of Irbil in an explosion that witnesses said turned a building packed with police recruits into a "slaughterhouse".