BAGHDAD, Iraq – Shiite and Kurdish officials reported progress Thursday in resolving disagreements over territorial issues and Cabinet posts, but said they may need another week to put together Iraq’s coalition government. In violence around Iraq, six U.S. soldiers were wounded in the northern city of Mosul (search) when a …

WASHINGTON – The same Congressional committee that conducted hearings into steroids (search) in baseball has summoned NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue (search) to testify about how football regulates the performance-enhancing substances. The Government Reform Committee also said it will summon representatives of the NBA, NHL, NCAA, U.S. Track and Field and …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. General Assembly (search) on Tuesday approved a nonbinding resolution that seeks to ban human cloning, capping a four-year struggle that saw divided governments abandon efforts for stronger action. The debate hinged on whether to outlaw all cloning or permit cloning for research. Nations that sought …

SAN FRANCISCO – Conservation groups sued the Bush administration (search) Wednesday for extending leases for oil and gas drilling off the central California coast, claiming that increased production would harm marine ecosystems and coastal residents. The groups challenge the U.S. Interior Department’s conclusion that no environmental impact would result from …

Go ahead, have a piece of bread. Have three. Make it whole-grain, and you’ll be following government advice for eating right. Three servings of whole grains each day will reduce your risk of heart disease and type 2 diabetes (search). It doesn’t have to be bread. Brown or wild rice, …

CHICAGO – Family and followers of jailed white supremacist leader Matthew Hale (search) say they feel relieved and vindicated, now that police think they know who killed a federal judge’s husband and mother. Police believe that a Chicago electrician who killed himself during a Wisconsin (search) traffic stop this week …

NEW YORK – PAUL VOLCKER, CHAIRMAN, U.N. INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE, HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE, MARCH 29, 2005 VOLCKER: Welcome to you, ladies and gentlemen. We are here again. (OFF-MIKE) you have also a short press statement which covers the main findings. Now, let me just make a few comments to sort …

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court (search) made it easier Wednesday for any worker over 40 to allege age discrimination, ruling that employers can be held liable even if they never intended any harm. About 75 million people — roughly half the nation’s work force — are covered by the decision. …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Analysts saw unsettling financial numbers from HealthSouth Corp. (search) but had no idea of the massive accounting fraud at the medical services chain until it unraveled, testimony showed Thursday at the trial of ousted chief executive Richard Scrushy (search). Merrill Lynch analyst A.J. Rice said financial reports …

NEW YORK – A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago — perhaps close to the dawn of the species. Researchers determined that the specimens are around 195,000 years old. Previously, the …