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BAGHDAD, Iraq – A roadside bomb killed three U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad on Friday, and coalition forces fatally shot three insurgents in Samarra, a city where the bombing of a Shiite shrine in February set off a wave of sectarian killings in Iraq. The violence came as a videotape …

NEW YORK – A recent GQ article spoofing Michael Jackson has the singer demanding the magazine apologize and pull the issue from circulation. In a statement released Friday, Jackson’s representative, Raymone K. Bain, said Jackson is “furious” about a series of photos featuring a Jackson impersonator in the magazine’s May …

NEW YORK – For graduating college seniors, this summer’s job market could well be the best in years. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s College Planning page. Healthy corporate balance sheets, retiring baby boomers and a sudden willingness to recruit and train all mean workers are in short supply and wages …

CHICAGO – McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) CEO Jim Skinner told shareholders Thursday not to believe the recent surge of “fiction” maligning fast food and pledged that the company will be more aggressive and creative in setting the record straight. Skinner’s comments at the fast-food chain’s annual meeting were the strongest evidence …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA began moving Discovery to the launch pad Friday in preparation for only the second liftoff of a space shuttle since the Columbia disaster three years ago. Discovery’s trek of a little more than 4 miles was expected to take about seven hours aboard a crawler-transporter. …

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – A Catholic girls high school has canceled a concert by Ne-Yo because of sexually explicit lyrics on the R&B singer’s first recording. Students at Mercy High School in suburban Detroit won the concert, which had been scheduled Wednesday afternoon, in a seat-belt use contest. “Everyone was …

MERAUX, La. – Workers on Wednesday began tearing down thousands of condemned homes in St. Bernard Parish, a blue-collar territory adjacent to New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina spared only a few structures. The first homes to be broken into pieces and tossed into dump trucks were in the Lexington Place …

The AP-AOL Games poll on public attitudes about gaming is based on telephone interviews with 3,024 adults, including 1,046 who play electronic games, in the United States from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The interviews were conducted April 18-20 and 24-27 by Ipsos, an international polling firm. Results were …

CHANTILLY, Va. – A troubled teenager who died in a shootout with officers in suburban Washington said repeatedly more than a year ago that he planned to attack a police station, friends of the gunman said. Michael W. Kennedy, 18, was crouched between two vehicles in the parking lot of …

WASHINGTON – Over half of U.S. adults use multivitamins, mostly the pretty healthy people who also eat nutrient-fortified foods. Yet there’s little evidence that most of the pills do any good — and concern that some people may even get a riskyvitamin overload, advisers to the government said Wednesday. Worried …