Tony Snow on U.S. Death #2500 in Iraq:

"MR. SNOW: It's a number, and every time there's one of these 500 benchmarks people want something. The President would like the war to be over now. Everybody would like the war to be over now. And the one thing that we saw in Iraq this week is further testimony to the...

Bush to Create World's Largest Marine Protected Area Near Hawaii

"A swath of the Pacific near Hawaii will be the largest such preserve in the world. President Bush today will create the world's largest marine protected area, a total of 140,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean surrounding a necklace of islands and atolls that stretch from the...

Cleric Calls on Bush to Convert to Islam

"A reputed leader of the al-Qaida-linked terror group blamed for deadly bombings across Indonesia on Thursday accused President Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard of waging wars against Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir also called...

Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marr...

"Earlier this month, efforts to ban gay marriage by amending the Constitution failed badly in Senate . Now the religious right is considering appealing to state legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention under an obscure provision of Article 5 that would allow...

Gates to leave day-to-day Microsoft operations

"Chairman Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will transition from day-to-day responsibilities at the company he co-founded to concentrate on the charitable work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will continue on as the company's chairman after transferring his...

Word games looming large at the movies

"Reuters - Strung together with precision and purpose, words provide the linguistic building blocks of any film. Ever since talkies were introduced, the deliberate arrangement of vowels and consonants have endowed movies with stirring monologues a[...]"

DuPont expects China sales growth to quicken

"Reuters - DuPont Co. , the second-largest U.S. chemicals maker, expects sales growth in China to accelerate as it expands its workforce by as much as 9 percent annually, a senior executive said on Friday."

Pitt Tops DiCaprio in "World" Domination

"E! Online - And for an encore, Brad Pitt gets to eat Leonardo DiCaprio's brains..."

Dan Rather says in talks to leave CBS

"Reuters - Dan Rather, once one of the most powerful men in U.S. television news, says he is preparing to leave the CBS network after more than four decades as an anchorman and reporter."

Captured papers show weakening insurgency

"AP - A document purportedly captured in an al-Qaida hideout portrays the insurgency in Iraq as being in "bleak" shape, saying that it is losing strength and proposing ways to stir up trouble between the U.S. and Iran to divert American attention."

Microsoft's Gates says to reduce role in 2008

"Reuters - Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates said on Thursday that over the next two years he will ease out of a day-to-day role at the company he built into the world's biggest software maker."

House Dems strip Jefferson of panel seat

"AP - Add political banishment to the list of problems confronting Rep. William Jefferson, ensnared in a bribery scandal that fellow Democrats hope to turn to their election-year advantage."

Jordan back as Bobcats' part-owner

"Reuters - Former NBA great Michael Jordan has become part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, the National Basketball Association team confirmed on Thursday."

House GOP to set up vote on Iraq pullout

"AP - House Republicans engineered an election-year debate on Iraq to show support for U.S. troops and force lawmakers, particularly Democrats, to take a position on withdrawing American forces from a conflict that is in its fourth year."

U.S.: Terror leader caught in Karbala raid

"AP - A key terror leader linked to the deaths of at least six coalition soldiers was captured in Karbala, the U.S. military said Friday, a day after the local council issued strong protests over the arrests of three members."