GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – The Palestinian Cabinet late Monday overrode a decision by the Palestinian Supreme Court to release a militant being held in a West Bank prison. Israel had complained that the court’s ruling earlier Monday in the case of Ahmed Saadat violated a deal worked out with …

PHOENIX – President Bush on Tuesday declared Arizona a natural disaster area in line to receive federal assistance that will help the state fight devastating wildfires that have scorched more than 500 square miles. Bush made a detour to Arizona while on his way to Alberta, Canada, where he is …

WASHINGTON – A Bush administration official held in contempt of court over management of a trust fund for American Indian royalties will retire at the end of the year. During his 17 months as the Interior Department’s assistant secretary for Indian affairs, Neal A. McCaleb focused on untangling a fund …

KUWAIT CITY – Kuwaiti police were searching for four people who fired guns near U.S. troops in the latest shooting incident involving American forces in Kuwait, an American military spokesman said Saturday. Nobody was injured when shots were fired Friday morning as the Americans were training in the desert south …

ATLANTA – Back when Republican Sonny Perdue was running for governor, he pounded Gov. Roy Barnes for changing Georgia’s flag and promised to let voters decide whether to bring back the old banner dominated by the Confederate emblem. But in the week since Perdue ousted the Democrat in a historic …

NEW YORK – An internal probe has cleared the FBI agents who obtained a false confession from a one-time suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. But the findings raise new questions about the reliability of lie-detector tests. The twin reports released Monday led U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff to drop …

LOS ANGELES – A year-old pornography investigation has led to the filing of criminal charges against two Hollywood actors: Paul Reubens, best known as Pee-wee Herman, and veteran character actor Jeffrey Jones of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Reubens was charged with one misdemeanor count of possessing materials depicting children under …

Veteran newscaster John Gibson gets to the core of the most salient issues facing America today as host of FNC’s hard-hitting primetime show The Big Story with John Gibson, airing Monday through Friday at 5 p.m. ET, with expert legal analysis from Judge Andrew Napolitano and in-depth field reports from …

WASHINGTON – A man was arrested Wednesday outside the Agriculture Department after claiming to have explosives in a van and making threats against President Bush, police said. The 38-year-old man from Woodbridge, Va., was taken to George Washington University Hospital here and held for observation, District of Columbia police spokesman …

State: Florida Party: Democrat Candidate: U.S. House of Representatives Born: 5/3/1947, New York, NY Religion: Jewish Marital Status: Single Education: BA Brown Univ., 1968; MIA Columbia Univ., 1970; JD Yale Univ., 1973; MPhil Yale Univ., 1974; PhD Yale Univ., 1975 Previous Political Experience: No prior elected office Campaign Web Site: …