WASHINGTON – The White House announced Friday that President Bush plans to host two world leaders in coming days. King Abdullah II of Jordan will visit Wednesday, while U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will come on Feb. 13, press secretary Scott McClellan said in a statement. Topics for Annan’s visit include …
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WASHINGTON – Betty Friedan, whose manifesto “The Feminine Mystique” helped shatter the cozy suburban ideal of the post-World War II era and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement, died Saturday, her birthday. She was 85. Friedan died at her Washington, D.C., home of congestive heart failure, according to …
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Halle Berry had to write “I will not make ‘Catwoman II'” on a chalkboard four times Thursday in order to earn her pudding pot as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding woman of the year. Berry’s performance in the 2004 action bomb earned her a worst-actress award in last year’s …
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DENVER – A coalition of religious and family groups kicked off a drive Wednesday to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. Coloradans for Marriage submitted a proposed amendment that defines marriage between a man and a woman to the state Legislative Council office, the first step toward getting …
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WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Governor Roger Ferguson, who played a key role in shepherding the nation’s financial system through the 2001 terror attacks, is leaving the central bank near the end of April. Currently vice chairman, Ferguson, 54, has been with the Fed since 1997. He was first appointed to …
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AUSTIN – A University of Texas student found a substance in a roll of quarters that tested positive for ricin, a potentially deadly poison, but more tests were needed, officials said Saturday. The 19-year-old student, who said she unwrapped the powder in her dormitory room Thursday, and her roommate were …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Two of the world’s biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo Inc. and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user’s mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters, representatives of both companies said Sunday. The …
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Scientists have discovered what they believe is a new fish species and at least 20 types of previously unknown seaweeds during a recent expedition to one of the Caribbean’s most diverse marine areas — a coral-covered underwater mountain off the Dutch island of Saba. It …
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PARIS – France’s foreign minister said Thursday that Iran’s nuclear program was a cover for clandestine military activity, in an unusually direct attack on Tehran for a European diplomat. Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator immediately dismissed the charge, insisting that Iran doesn’t “want to have the bomb.” Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy‘s …
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GOLETA, Calif. – The ex-postal worker who authorities say committed the nation’s bloodiest shooting at a postal installation in nearly 20 years also has been linked to the killing of a former neighbor. The body of Beverly Graham, 54, was found in her condominium a day after authorities say Jennifer …
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