WASHINGTON – The FBI (search) said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach. The bureau is investigating whether someone hacked into the www.fbi.gov e-mail system, which is run by a private company, officials said. “We …

RALEIGH, N.C. – A change of command celebration at an Army-run detention center in Iraq (search) has landed a female soldier in trouble. The soldier was demoted from specialist to private first class and remains a guard at the Camp Bucca detention center (search). The 19-year-old private was disciplined after …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A few weeks after his son Ahmed disappeared, Abdullah al-Shayea got a call from an Iraqi official saying the 19-year-old was an intended suicide bomber who barely survived blowing up a fuel tanker in a deadly Christmas Day attack in Baghdad. Ahmed is one of many …

LOS ANGELES – Seven members of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (search), including two teachers, were arrested in Southern California and charged with allegedly planning to travel to Mexico to have sex with boys, authorities said. An eighth man was charged with distributing child pornography, said FBI spokeswoman Laura …

Watch “The Big Story” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET To help stem the violence in Iraq, President Bush (search) asks Congress for another $82 billion — most of it for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’ll get reaction from Jed Babbin, former deputy undersecretary of defense. Sen. John Kerry …

List of the 77th annual Oscar nominations announced Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (search): Picture: “The Aviator,” “Finding Neverland,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Ray,” “Sideways.” Director: Martin Scorsese, “The Aviator”; Clint Eastwood, “Million Dollar Baby”; Taylor Hackford, “Ray”; Alexander Payne, “Sideways”; Mike …

TOKYO – Crown Prince Naruhito (search), heir to Japan’s ancient throne, marked his 45th birthday Wednesday with an apology for hinting months ago that his wife had been the target of overzealous palace officials bent on making her fit the palace mold. He declined to comment, however, on another royal …

Iran and Syria on Wednesday said they would unite against any challenges or threats to their nations’ livelihoods, a move that could raise the stakes in the ongoing international dramas involving both countries. The announcement came on the same day that a large explosion supposedly rocked the southern Iranian city …

LOS ANGELES – NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a dusty disc of material around a very small “failed star” called a brown dwarf, raising the possibility that there may be miniature solar systems in which planets orbit objects not much larger than planets, scientists said Monday. The brown dwarf …

A professor at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas may be punished because he offended one of his students by saying in a lesson on economic planning that homosexuals tend to plan less for the future than other groups, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Hans Hoppe, described as a …