MIAMI – Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ill in the past week and died surrounded by family members at Coral Gables Hospital, spokesman Nelson …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush’s motorcade had a minor accident Sunday when the ambulance that routinely trails the president in case of an emergency crashed into a support vehicle on the way back from Camp David. Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry said no one was injured and the motorcade did not …
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WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged Monday that the insurgency in Iraq has been stronger than anticipated. But he also said the news media have focused on the war’s growing body count rather than progress that has been achieved. “To be responsible, one needs to stop defining success …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush, working to retool the Republican message for 2006, is trying to shift public attention to something in short supply during his almost five years in office: a run of good economic figures. “We’re heading into a new year with an economy that is the envy of …
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Robert James Petrick, 51, didn’t exactly point a Web browser to the Internet search engine Google and type in “how do you kill your wife?” But he came pretty close, say prosecutors in Durham County, N.C. Petrick used Google to search the Internet for references to “body decomposition,” “rigor mortis,” …
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BOSTON – After earning two Harvard degrees, making millions as a businessman and turning around a scandal-plagued Winter Olympics, Mitt Romney created a list of accomplishments as governor. The Republican, who was elected in 2002, said Wednesday he’s not seeking a second term, prompting some political analysts to say Romney …
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Janet Jackson | Al Gore Janet Jackson: No Secret Child, Says Producer Janet Jackson did not have a secret child with husband James DeBarge 18 years ago, nor did she give that daughter to her sister Rebbie to raise as her own. Janet’s longtime producer Jimmy “Jam” Harris says it’s …
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PHUKET, Thailand – Survivors launched a boat laden with flowers, candles and incense in the first ceremony Saturday to mark one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami swept away at least 216,000 lives in one of the world’s worst natural disasters in memory. Peter Pruchniewitz, 68, who was swept from …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush pledged on Thursday to rebuild New Orleans‘ shattered levee system taller and stronger than before Hurricane Katrina struck, requesting an additional $1.5 billion to buttress the system that failed and left the city flooded. “The federal government is committed to building the best levee system known …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee met with the chief judge overseeing the Saddam Hussein trial on Tuesday, saying he’s disappointed the court has allowed the former leader “to dominate” the trial. Sen. Arlen Specter also said a U.S. general told him that recently announced …
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