WASHINGTON – A House debate over stem cell research (search) opens with emotional appeals from celebrity supporters as well as parents who “adopted” their children as embryos and are fighting a bill that would ease restrictions on federally funded disease studies some say could lead to cures. Proponents of embryonic …

CARMEN DE APICALA, Colombia – Colombian police arrested two U.S. soldiers for alleged involvement in a plot to traffic thousands of rounds of ammunition — possibly to outlawed right-wing paramilitary groups, authorities said Wednesday. The two soldiers were detained during a raid Tuesday in a gated community in Carmen de …

NEW YORK – Tired of pregnancy reports, Britney Spears (search) is lashing out at tabloid magazines. “Do you, Us Weekly, In Touch, Star and other desperate magazines want employees who are honest, or those who are liars?” Spears writes in a posting on her Web site addressed “Dear False Tabloids.” …

ROME – Though cardinals refuse to discuss it, the question of who will be the next pope is clearly on the minds of many Catholics. Cardinals have stopped their interviews with the media ahead of their meeting next week to select a papable candidate. And they apparently think the faithful …

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LONDON – The U.N. health agency said Wednesday that Brazil, France, Germany and Japan — as well as Canada and the United States — are among 18 countries that received vials of a pandemic flu strain that could spark a global epidemic. The World Health Organization urged labs to destroy …

WASHINGTON – Now the real trouble begins as the case of Zacarias Moussaoui (search) hurtles toward a conclusion and the life of the admitted terrorist conspirator hangs in the balance. Next comes the penalty phase in the criminal prosecution of the 36-year-old French citizen, who says the endgame of his …

BERLIN – “We are the Pope!” Germany’s biggest-selling daily screamed on its front page Wednesday, reflecting national pride in the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (search) as the 265th pontiff. But the Bild newspaper’s joy was far from universal. Berlin’s left-leaning Tageszeitung daily appeared with a black front page and …

SAN DIEGO – After a 17-year legal battle between the city and a self-described atheist, a judge has ordered San Diego officials to remove a giant cross from a hilltop park. The 29-foot-high cross was dedicated as a memorial to Korean War veterans in 1954 on a hilltop that towers …

Since I’m the kind of guy who runs his mouth, I tend to get in a lot of trouble. People get outraged about something I’ve said, but most often it’s confined to the left-wing blogs that hate FOX, and hate me for speaking my mind, and for the war on …