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ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Prosecutors in Zacarias Moussaoui‘s death penalty trial sought Tuesday to show his lies are standard operating procedure for Al Qaeda, presenting evidence that members of the terrorist group are carefully scripted to deceive when caught. FBI agent Michael Anticev, testifying for a second day, offered the jury …

LIVONIA, Mich. – A Detroit man is accused of using his sport utility vehicle to terrorize two pregnant women in another vehicle, nearly forcing them into oncoming traffic and ramming their vehicle against a wall. No one was hurt. Earl Boyd, 50, is charged with two counts of felony assault …

ACCRA, Ghana – Excited school children in Ghana peered skyward and hundreds of people streamed to an ancient Greek temple in Turkey for a view Wednesday of the first total eclipse in years, a solar show sweeping northeast from Brazil to Mongolia. Throngs milled on a beach in Ghana, sharing …

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO – Viacom Inc.’s MTV Networks (VIAB) has agreed to distribute clips from its cable networks over Google Inc.’s (GOOG) advertising network, in a test of what could become a new economic model for Web-based video delivery, the companies said on Sunday. The project, a year in the …

MIAMI – A federal judge on Monday threw out one count in the terror indictment against alleged Al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla and his co-defendants, concluding that it repeated other charges in the same indictment. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke leaves intact two other terror-related counts against …

YONKERS, N.Y. – Malcolm X‘s grandson was arrested Thursday after punching a doughnut shop window, sending shattered glass onto two patrons, police said. Malcolm Shabazz, 21, was picked up in Mount Vernon, Yonkers police said. He was charged with reckless endangerment, assault and criminal mischief. The two patrons, a 19-year-old …

LOS ANGELES – CBS Television will begin showing episodes of several new and returning prime-time shows for free on the Internet, becoming the second network to do so. CBS (CBS) already sells downloads of episodes on Apple Computer Inc.’s (AAPL) iTunes Music Store and Google Inc.’s (GOOG) video store. In …

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi prayed at the Yasukuni war shrine Tuesday to mark Tokyo’s World War II surrender, defying strident protests by China and South Korea but cheering his conservative followers. It was Koizumi’s sixth visit to the shrine since taking office in 2001, but his first …

MATHEWS, Va. – A judge has convicted an amateur photographer of second-degree murder in the death of a 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University student. The judge in Mathews County Circuit Court ordered him to serve 30 years. The judge also agreed to drop unrelated child pornography charges. Benjamin Fawley, 39, entered …

LOS ANGELES – Mel Gibson’s apology for making drunken anti-Semitic remarks isn’t enough to redeem him, actor-producer Rob Reiner said. The actor also must acknowledge that “his work reflects anti-Semitism,” particularly the 2004 hit movie “The Passion of the Christ,” Reiner told Associated Press Radio. “When he comes to the …