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Jackson, Mexican president to work together prove race relations

By Abdullah AlShihri and Morgan Lee · Wednesday, May 18,2005 9:35 p.m.

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Vicente Fox and the Rev. Jesse Jackson agreed Wednesday to work together to unite blacks and Hispanics in the United States after Fox said Mexicans were working U.S. jobs that not even blacks would take.

Gunmen kill Iraqi general; 7 more bodies found

By Abdullah AlShihri and Bassem Mroue · Wednesday, May 18,2005 9:34 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents gunned down a senior Iraqi Interior Ministry official Wednesday and the bodies of seven men shot in the head were found outside Baghdad, part of an escalation in violence that a senior U.S. military official said was called for during a recent meeting in Syria by lieutenants of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

FBI: grenade thrown during Bush rally in Georgia was live

By Abdullah AlShihri and Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili · Wednesday, May 18,2005 8:29 p.m.

May 10 incident was 'threat' to Georgian, American presidents

Tennessee marble quarried for Capitol project

By Abdullah AlShihri and Duncan Mansfield · Wednesday, May 18,2005 7:56 p.m.

FRIENDSVILLE, Tenn. -- With diamond-tipped saws and gushing jets of water, the last active quarries for a distinctive pink and reddish-brown marble exclusive to eastern Tennessee are being mined for a massive addition to the U.S. Capitol.

Capitol, White House briefly evacuated

By Abdullah AlShihri and Eileen Putman · Wednesday, May 11,2005 10:40 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Capitol and White House were evacuated Wednesday after a small plane entered restricted airspace and came within three miles of the executive mansion. Military jets scrambled to intercept the aircraft and fired warning flares.

Father charged in murder of 8-year-old daughter and friend in Illinois town

By Abdullah AlShihri and Nathaniel Hernandez · Wednesday, May 11,2005 10:24 p.m.

ZION, Ill. - When the father of a missing 8-year-old found her bloodied body in a ravine, next to her lifeless best friend, it seemed every parent's worst nightmare.

More blasts rock Iraq, killing 60

By Abdullah AlShihri and Yahiya Ahmed · Wednesday, May 11,2005 10:23 p.m.

KIRKUK, Iraq -- Five suicide attacks in three cities in Iraq killed more than 60 people Wednesday. In the deadliest, a man with hidden explosives set them off in a line of people outside a police and army recruitment center in northern Iraq, killing 30 and wounding 35, police said.

Reconstruction shows what King Tut looked like

By Abdullah AlShihri and Maamoun Youssef · Wednesday, May 11,2005 9:52 p.m.

CAIRO, Egypt - New computer models have brought life to the ancient facial bones of King Tut.

Grenade found after Bush visit

By Abdullah AlShihri and Misha Dzhindhikhashvili · Wednesday, May 11,2005 9:28 p.m.

TBILISI, Georgia -- Was it a bid to undermine a visit by President Bush -- or evidence of a real assassination plot?

Austria passes EU constitution in bid to make 'stronger Europe'

By Abdullah AlShihri and Susanna Loof · Wednesday, May 11,2005 8:50 p.m.

VIENNA, Austria -- Austria's parliament overwhelmingly ratified the European Union's constitution Wednesday, the seventh nation to do so, setting aside fears that the small country would be overrun by bigger EU members once the document takes effect.

DA's investigator, family found slain inside California home

By Abdullah AlShihri and Ben Fox · Wednesday, May 11,2005 8:50 p.m.

GARNER VALLEY, Calif. -- The 911 dispatcher heard only the thud of a telephone hitting the wall and the sound of a gunshot -- and when police arrived at the sprawling ranch home, they discovered six bodies.

North Korea readying to 'bolster its nuclear arsenal'

By Abdullah AlShihri and Burt Herman · Wednesday, May 11,2005 8:32 p.m.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Wednesday it has completed removing spent fuel rods from an atomic reactor, enabling it to harvest more weapons-grade plutonium.

Iraqi parliament approves 6 Cabinet nominees, human rights minister turns down job

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, May 9,2005 3:35 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's parliament approved six Cabinet nominees Sunday, handing four more posts to the disaffected Sunni Arab minority and taking the country a step closer to completing the formation of its first democratically elected government after months of wrangling.

JFK nephew Bobby Shriver weds fiancee

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, May 9,2005 3:31 p.m.

LOS ANGELES - Bobby Shriver, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and brother of California first lady Maria Shriver, married his fiancee Malissa Feruzzi Saturday in Los Angeles.

Bush honors fallen soldiers of World War II

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer Loven · Monday, May 9,2005 3:29 p.m.

MAASTRICHT, The Netherlands -- As a chilly rain soaked thousands of white crosses marking American war dead, President Bush paid homage Sunday to the "terrible price" paid by World War II soldiers who never came home from their fight against tyranny.

Gays to be barred as sperm donors

By Abdullah AlShihri and David Crary · Thursday, May 5,2005 10:27 p.m.

NEW YORK - To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Drug Administration is about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor.

Georgia preacher sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for large pyramid scheme

By Abdullah AlShihri and Errin Haines · Thursday, May 5,2005 10:26 p.m.

ROME, Ga. -- A small-town preacher was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison Thursday for stealing nearly $9 million from some 1,600 black churches by promising big returns on small investments.

Bush: Belarus is last dictatorship

By Abdullah AlShihri and Liudas Dapkus · Thursday, May 5,2005 10:25 p.m.

VILNIUS, Lithuania - President Bush told Lithuanian TV that Belarus is the "last remaining dictatorship in Europe" and that the United States will work with countries in the region to ensure that the next elections there are free.

Even used, some Prius cars selling for above sticker price

By Abdullah AlShihri and Alicia Chang · Thursday, May 5,2005 10:24 p.m.

LOS ANGELES - Sheila Catoira wanted a fuel-efficient Toyota Prius hybrid so badly, she found a used model online and paid $1,000 more than the car would have cost new.

Astronomers observe planet outside solar system

By Alyson Brodsy and Alicia Chang · Monday, May 2,2005 1:03 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- New images taken of an object five times the mass of Jupiter confirm that it is a giant planet closely orbiting a distant star, an international team of astronomers reported. The team of European and American astronomers said this is the first time a planet outside of our solar system has been directly observed -- a claim other scientists have also made.

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