WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood together Friday in urging U.N. intervention if Iran does not retreat from a resumption of its nuclear program. The world needs to "send a common message to Iran that their behavior ..

DAMADOLA, Pakistan (AP) — Weeping villagers dug through the rubble of homes destroyed Friday in a pre-dawn airstrike that doctors said killed at least 17 people in a remote Pakistani tribal area — the second deadly strike in a week near the Afghan border. Sahibzada Haroon ur Rashid, a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Samuel Alito is gliding toward confirmation as a Supreme Court justice after a week of hearings in which Democrats tried to stop him with withering questions on abortion, presidential power and ethics. Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., closed five days of...

LAIE, Hawaii (AP) — Genetic engineering saved Ken Kamiya's papaya farm on Oahu's north shore, and it may yet rescue the orchid from the grips of a nasty flower-killing virus. But in Kona, Una Greenaway lives in dread that biotechnology will ruin her organic coffee plantation. Pineapple...

CARBON, Texas (AP) — The recent outbreak of grassfires across drought-stricken Texas and Oklahoma has compounded the misery of many farmers and ranchers dealing with the effects of one of the worst dry spells on record. Dozens of farmers and ranchers across Texas have lost property, income...