Runaway Bride Could Face Legal Charges
ABC News - 1 hour ago Police officers escort a blanket covered Jennifer Wilbanks through the Albuquerque Sunport, Saturday, April 30, 2005, as she is taken to her flight and back to Atlanta. Wilbanks turned up in Albuquerque late

Taiwan Can't Be Fooled
Christian Science Monitor - 1 hour ago The increasingly rich and well-schooled Taiwanese aren't like the mainland's 700 million, little-educated peasants whom the communist leaders usually manipulate. Yet last week Beijing treated the people of

Battling On Benefits
TIME - 1 hour ago George Bush is trying to call the bluff of Democrats, who have been so unified in their opposition to his plan to revamp Social Security. After months of ducking specifics about the hard benefits cuts that

Wall St. Week Ahead: Stocks Eye Fed, Jobs
MSN Money - 1 hour ago By Arindam Nag. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors are likely to remain slightly nervous this week with another rate increase expected from the Federal Reserve and the crucial April non-farm payrolls report on tap.

North Korea Apparently Conducts Missile Test
New York Times - 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, May 1 - North Korea apparently launched a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan today, raising tensions on the eve of a United Nations conference on nuclear nonproliferation. Andrew Card, the

Buffett: Insurance Abuse Nearly Halted
Reuters - 38 minutes ago OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) - Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, the top executives at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKa.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (BRKb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , on Sunday said recent regulatory

Leader of singing group turns to terror
MSNBC - 1 hour ago SHUBRA EL-KHEIMA, Egypt - Once the cheerful leader of a school singing group, Ehab Yousri Yassin underwent a drastic change a few years ago, mingling with Islamic extremists, talking only about religion and forcing his sisters to wear head-to-toe veils.

Italy Report on Killing Goes Public Monday
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago By FRANCES D'EMILIO. ROME (AP) - Italy will publish its own report Monday on the US killing of an Italian intelligence agent after the two countries could not agree on the circumstances of last month's shooting at an American checkpoint in Baghdad.

England will plead guilty to 7 of 9 Iraqi abuse charges
DCEAlumni.com - 2 hours ago Lynndie England, the US soldier pic¬tured holding a naked Iraqi detainee on a leash in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, will plead guilty next week to most charges against her, her lawyer has said. The 22-year

What 'minuteman' vigil accomplished
Christian Science Monitor - 4 hours ago A volunteer network's effort to close part of border slowed illegal immigration - in one small area. By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. SIERRA VISTA, ARIZ. – Retired pilot