ISAHAQI, Iraq – U.S. forces flattened a house during a raid north of Baghdad early Wednesday, killing 11 people — mostly women and children, while insurgent attacks elsewhere left five dead, police and relatives said. The U.S. military acknowledged the raid and said it caught one insurgent. It took place …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Martin Sabo, D-Minn., plans to announce Saturday he will not seek re-election, congressional staffers say. Sabo, 68, has served in the House since 1979. He will make the announcement at a news conference in his home district of Minneapolis. Sabo is second in seniority to only fellow …

MOSCOW – Iran and Russia reportedly resumed talks Thursday in a Kremlin effort to defuse tensions over Tehran’s suspect nuclear program, while the top Iranian negotiator accused the United States of trying to sabotage the deal. Ali Larijani said at a news conference that Washington’s push to have Iran reported …

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Two Pace University students were questioned by Secret Service officers after they heckled former President Clinton during a speech at the school, a university spokesman said. The hecklers shouted “war criminal” when Clinton answered a law student’s question about the value of working for peace, Pace spokesman …

TOKYO – Like many retirees, Isamu Shishido sometimes forgets names and even his own telephone number. But now the 67-year-old says he’s found a product that could sharpen his thinking: a new brain-training game from Nintendo Co. The ailing maker of Super Mario Brothers and Pokemon games has scored a …

INDIANAPOLIS – The spring snow storm that buried parts of Nebraska under more than 2 feet of snow swept through the Ohio Valley on Tuesday, shutting down schools and making travel tough for voters headed for the polls for the Illinois’ primary election. As much as 2 inches of snow …

DURHAM, N.C. – The lawyers for Duke men’s lacrosse players said Thursday that police and an outraged community will owe the team an apology after DNA tests are completed — tests they said will prove no one on the team raped an exotic dancer. Four attorneys representing nearly all the …

Hello everybody and welcome to another week of “FOX & Friends!” Today, every newscast on every news channel will feature pictures of John Mark Karr, onboard a Los Angeles-bound jetliner, luxuriating in business class. The New York Post had the best headline about his trek: their front page featured his …

NEW YORK – Google Inc. (GOOG), the search engine whose clean, minimalist home page was a stark contrast to the link-laden Web portals of the late 1990s, made a tiny tweak to its site last week that may have much bigger repercussions. On Wednesday, Google removed a text link to …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Torrential rains spilled a river from its banks in southern Ethiopia, killing at least 125 people as it submerged five villages, knocked down grain silos and swept away cattle, a police official said Monday. The disaster came a week after 256 people drowned when heavy rains …