Reuters - With the Iraq war nearly 3 years old and showing no sign of letting up, President George W. Bush said on Saturday he hoped to have Iraqi forces control more territory than U.S. troops by year's end.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, DC (AHN) - Interior Secretary Gale Norton has resigned after five years in President Bush's Cabinet and at a time when her agency is part of a lobbying scandal over Indian gaming licenses. In a two-page letter to Bush, Norton said her resignation...

AP - Gnawing leisurely on the remains of a moose carcass, the wolf pack's alpha male seemed unaware that mortal danger was coming ever closer.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Washington, DC (AHN) - Interior Secretary Gale Norton has resigned after five years in President Bush's Cabinet and at a time when her agency is part of a lobbying scandal over Indian gaming licenses. In a two-page letter to Bush, Norton said her resignation...

AP - With retail giant Wal-Mart under fire to improve its labor and health care policies, one Democrat with deep ties to the company — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton — has started feeling her share of the political heat.

AP - The FBI said Friday there is no specific, credible threat of a terror attack aimed at college basketball arenas or other sports stadiums, but acknowledged alerting law enforcement to a recent Internet posting discussing such attacks.

AP - The FBI said Friday there is no specific, credible threat of a terror attack aimed at college basketball arenas or other sports stadiums, but acknowledged alerting law enforcement to a recent Internet posting discussing such attacks.

AP - The FBI said Friday there is no specific, credible threat of a terror attack aimed at college basketball arenas or other sports stadiums, but acknowledged alerting law enforcement to a recent Internet posting discussing such attacks.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter London, England (AHN) - A climate scientist who has discovered that global warming is happening 20 times faster than previously thought says a paradise world of undiscovered species and tropical glaciers in the mountains of New Guinea is disappearing faster...

AP - A ballot proposal promoting embryonic stem cell research is turning conservatives against each other and threatening to tear apart Missouri's Republican Party at the very height of its modern-day influence.

AP - With retail giant Wal-Mart under fire to improve its labor and health care policies, one Democrat with deep ties to the company — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton — has started feeling her share of the political heat.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Baghdad, Iraq (AHN)—After a new detention facility is completed in approximately three months, the U.S. command says the military will leave the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and turn it over to Iraqi authorities, the Associated Press reports. Lt. Col. Barry...

AP - Two men are accused of violating copyright laws by posting music by alternative country artist Ryan Adams on a Web site before its public release, federal officials said Thursday.

AP - If the latest round of steroids accusations is bothering Barry Bonds, he's not letting on to it. Boos coming his way from all directions, Bonds slowly stepped into the batter's box for his first spring training appearance in two years and struck out swinging on six pitches.

AP - Fourth quarter profits fell by more than half at DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. as DVD sales of "Madagascar" failed to match last year's box office receipts from the blockbuster "Shrek 2."

Ayinde O. Chase - AHN Staff Writer Miami, FL (AHN) - Toronto music fans, will be rocking even more when Pearl Jam comes to town to kick off their band's 2006 tour. Vocalist Eddie Vedder and band mates will headline two shows at the Air Canada Centre on May 9 and 10. Pearl Jam guitarist Mike...

Reuters - Chloe Dao, an aspiring designer from Houston who came to America as a child from war-torn southeast Asia, won the second season of the Bravo fashion-competition hit "Project Runway" on Wednesday, netting a $100,000 cash prize to start her own clothing line.

AP - Worldwide online game subscription revenue grew 43 percent to $2 billion in 2005, according to a video gaming market research firm.

AP - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential White House candidate in 2008, said Wednesday some Republicans are trying to create a "police state" to round up illegal immigrants.

USATODAY.com - The United States' inability to slow illegal immigration from Mexico is fueling a financial crisis in the 24 counties along the 1,951-mile Southwest border, according to a new study. It says the counties are struggling to fund law enforcement, health programs and other necessities because they are spending millions of dollars a year to care for illegal immigrants.