House Bill Would Insure Up To $260,000 In Retirement Accounts
KOTV - 1 hour 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

Brain injury fireman 'wakes up' after 10 years
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour ago By Tom Leonard in New York. Medical science cannot explain why a brain-damaged fireman suddenly awoke from almost 10 years of semi-conscious silence and asked to talk to his wife, doctors said yesterday. Donald

Judge rejects guilty plea by woman in Abu Ghraib abuse case
Scotsman - 57 minutes ago A MILITARY judge yesterday rejected a guilty plea by Lynndie England, a central figure in the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, after evidence in her trial indicated she considered herself innocent.

World awaits Iran's next move
Salon - 51 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

Taking a Closer Look at Greenspan's Quarter-Point Rate Hike
CIO Today - 54 minutes ago Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues on the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee also stuck with a promise it has been making for the past year to nudge rates up "at a pace that is likely to be measured," a phrase that markets have

Pentagon aide charged with handing over Iran plans
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour ago By Alec Russell in Washington. A Pentagon analyst with close links to senior neo-conservatives was arrested yesterday and charged with leaking classified plans to a pro-Israeli lobbying group. Larry Franklin

Pakistan Captures Top Al-Qaida Leader
PBS - 34 minutes ago MARGARET WARNER: For more on the capture of Abu al-Libbi, we turn to Steve Coll, associate editor at The Washington Post. He's author of "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden

Wall Street stocks jump on investor's buying of GM's shares
Xinhua - 30 minutes ago NEW YORK, May 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Wall Street stocks rose sharply Wednesday on the news that billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian might buy 5 percent stake in automaker General Motor Corp. The Dow Jones industrial

Dozens die in Kurdish city suicide blast
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 hour 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".

Could the US military handle another war
Christian Science Monitor - 8 hours ago Media reports in the US and around the world have taken note of a new classified report from the top US military advisor, which indicates that the US military's current commitments overseas may prevent it from adequately fighting future conflicts.