At least once a week, Girino Ndyanabo’s family converges around a pit in which bananas have been left to ripen. The bananas are peeled and thrown into a wooden vat carved like a boat, and the patriarch steps in with bare feet. The sweet juice he presses out is filtered …

MAYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week, attorneys said Tuesday. Hadi Matar, the man charged with repeatedly stabbing Rushdie as the author was being …

This is a partial transcript from “Hannity & Colmes ,” Feb. 8, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Hannity & Colmes” weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: A chief news executive at CNN, Eason Jordan, has placed himself in the center of another controversy. Jordan told …

This is a partial transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” June 30, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Hannity & Colmes” weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Earlier today, Sean spoke with the parents of the late Terri Schiavo, Bob and Mary Schindler, and former LAPD Detective …

In her political life, Hillary Clinton has made a show of “standing by her man” (in college, the radical Saul Alinsky and in crisis, her husband, Bill). For her June 13 public rally formally announcing her presidential run, she has a new man she is standing by. But as with …

A 32-year-old Canadian woman who has been declared brain dead is being kept on life support in a Victoria, British Columbia hospital, with doctors working to keep her alive long enough to deliver her unborn son. Robyn Benson was just 22 weeks pregnant when she complained of a headache and …

A central Indiana couple is adjusting to life with their newborn identical triplet girls. Avery, Cassidy and Bentley Doss were born Monday at St. Vincent Women’s Hospital in Indianapolis. The girls are doing well and gaining weight, but will probably stay in the hospital for about eight weeks, parents Amanda …

President Obama’s speech on the Afghan/Pak War, and the annual policy review that accompanied it, paint a fairly upbeat picture of our progress since the surge. We’ve made military progress in defeating the Taliban, especially in the south. We’ve degraded Taliban and Al Qaeda strongholds in Pakistan. We’re ahead of …

ABUJA, Nigeria – A Nigerian security official says the Islamic extremist rebels of Boko Haram are trying to spread their violent campaign across Nigeria including Lagos, the country’s largest city. Tony Opuiyo, spokesman of the Department of State Services, Nigeria’s intelligence agency, said Sunday there has been a sudden influx …

HAVANA – Cuban and U.S. diplomats have formally launched the process of normalizing the relationship between the two countries. Small teams of negotiators met Friday in Havana as a steering committee charged with setting the agenda for talks on topics ranging from environmental cooperation to compensation for American properties confiscated …