TBILISI, Georgia – A man arrested after a fatal shootout with police has admitted to throwing a grenade at a rally in May where President Bush was making a speech, a Georgian official said Thursday. The suspect, Vladimir Arutyunian (search), made the admission in the hospital, where he is being …
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NEW YORK – At least half a million New Yorkers have diabetes (search), many of them at risk for blindness, kidney failure, amputations and heart problems because they are doing a poor job of controlling their illness. The question is, how much privacy are they willing to give up for …
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WASHINGTON – The United States must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades to bring peace to Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, Vice President Dick Cheney (search) said Wednesday. “Like other great duties in history, it will require decades of patient effort, and it …
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WASHINGTON – Oil jumped nearly 3 percent on Monday as another tropical storm gathered strength in the Caribbean, menacing U.S. rigs and refineries already rocked by the most active hurricane season in decades. Tropical Storm Wilma (search), the 21st named storm this year, could become a hurricane on National Hurricane …
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It’s every city dweller’s worst fear: rodents on crack. Squirrels in Brixton, South London, have been observed behaving bizarrely — and authorities there believe it may be because they’re hooked on crack cocaine hidden by addicts, according to the London Sun. A recent crackdown by cops on dealers and addicts …
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Diabetes continues to soar in the U.S., with no signs of slowing down. By the CDC’s latest count: —Nearly 21 million Americans have diabetes (7 percent of the U.S. population). —More than 6 million of those people don’t know they have diabetes. (These numbers represent an increase of 2.6 million …
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NEW YORK – Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), the No. 3 U.S. wireless service, posted higher quarterly profit and sales Wednesday, but its shares fell because some investors were disappointed by its forecast for 2005 earnings. The company, formed in August when Sprint Corp. bought Nextel Communications (search) for $35 billion, …
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WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (search) said Thursday that all the preparations that went into making sure the country’s computer systems would keep running when 1999 turned to 2000 helped the nation’s financial systems weather the 2001 terrorist attacks. “There was a strange and appreciated quietude early that …
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WASHINGTON – Prince Charles (search) and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will make their first visit to the White House since their marriage, officials announced Thursday. The couple will have lunch and dinner with President Bush (search) on Nov. 2, said White House press secretary Scott McClellan. Steve Atkins, a spokesman …
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WASHINGTON – Congress gave the gun lobby its top legislative priority Thursday, passing a bill protecting the firearms industry from massive lawsuits brought by crime victims. The White House says President Bush (search) will sign it into law. The House voted 283-144 to send the bill to the president after …
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