story

SALT LAKE CITY – A bag with hundreds of passport applications was found at Los Angeles International Airport, nearly after a month after it was supposed to be shipped to a processing center in North Carolina. “The applications appear to be intact and undamaged,” said Kate Goggin, spokeswoman for consular …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Backed by tanks, British soldiers raided a police station in the southern city of Basra on Monday, killing seven gunmen in an effort to stop renegade Iraqi officers from executing their prisoners, the British military said. After the British stormed the Basra police station, they removed the …

HONOLULU – Despite a dustup in Seattle over whether Christmas trees and menorahs have a place in that city’s airport, both were put up this season at airports throughout the Hawaiian islands without controversy. “In light of everything that’s going on, we thought it was a good idea to approach …

SEATTLE – Four family members were found dead Monday in their home of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, bringing the death toll from the Northwest’s worst windstorm in a decade to 14. The four — one woman and three males — were found in a home in Burien, a south Seattle …

TORONTO – The winter of 2005-2006 has been Canada’s warmest on record, and the federal agency Environment Canada said Monday it was investigating whether it’s a sign of global warming. Between December and February, the country was 3.9 degrees above normal — the warmest winter season since temperatures were first …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” March 30, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: “Factor Follow-Up” segment tonight, as we told you in the “T-points …

ALBANY, N.Y. – New York’s attorney general sued an Internet company Thursday over the selling of e-mail addresses in what authorities say may be the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused Gratis Internet of selling personal information obtained from millions of consumers despite a …

WASHINGTON – The White House said Wednesday a revised policy on granting security clearances to gays and lesbians does not reflect a change in how the government will treat sexual orientation. But several Democrats denounced the new rules. “The Bush administration is waging a covert war on loyal federal employees …

ELMHURST, Ill. – A candidate for the GOP nomination for governor proposed a lopsided game of chance to determine who will face the front-runner in Tuesday’s primary, asking two of his opponents to draw straws with him to decide who will stay in the race. Jim Oberweis, an investment manager …

WASHINGTON – Legislation that would force lobbyists to disclose more about their spending to influence the political process advanced Thursday in the Senate, but minus a key provision that would have set up a new independent office to monitor congressional ethics. The 12-1 vote in the Senate Homeland Security and …