Administration Claims Progress on Lebanon - Forbes

" By BARRY SCHWEID , 08.01.2006, 05:42 PM The Bush administration claimed progress Tuesday toward establishing an international peacekeeping force for Lebanon but said no quick cease-fire seemed likely in the three-week-old war between Israel and Hezbollah. In New York,...

Brooke Astor's son stunned by abuse claims (AP)

" NEW YORK - The son of philanthropist Brooke Astor said he was stunned by allegations that he abused his ailing 104-year-old mother. "I love my mother, and no one cares more about her than I do," Anthony Marshall, 82, said in a statement Thursday. Marshall, a former...

Colorado killer claims 48 murders across US (Reuters)

" 37 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Colorado man serving a life sentence for the 1991 kidnapping and murder of a 13-year-old girl claims to have killed 48 people across the United States, a sheriff's spokesman said on Thursday. Robert Charles Browne told El Paso County...

Group claims 3 GIs killed over rape-murders (AP)

" By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago BAGHDAD, Iraq - An al-Qaida-linked group claims it killed three U.S. soldiers last month and mutilated two of their bodies to avenge the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by troops of the same unit, an institute...

Powerful Interests Stifle Innovation

"General Motors Corporation and its offspring parts operation Delphi are currently laying off more than 50,000 unionized workers in the U.S. The companies claim that their North American operations are not profitable, and GM claims that it has to do the layoffs since it is...