HONOLULU – Contaminated carrots served on several flights out of Honolulu likely caused 45 people to suffer food poisoning across 22 states, Japan, Australia and American Samoa, a state epidemiologist said Thursday. The outbreak has sparked one lawsuit, filed Thursday, against airline caterer Gate Gourmet Inc., which included the carrots …

WASHINGTON – President Bush and the U.S. military on Friday condemned the publication of photographs of a near-naked Saddam Hussein (search) in prison and said an investigation had been started to find who took and released the photos. A front-page picture in the British tabloid The Sun showed the former …

WASHINGTON – This spring brings the first class of college graduates to have gone through college entirely since the Sept. 11, 2001 (search), attacks. The Partnership for Public Service (search) in Washington surveyed more than 800 graduating seniors, all of whom had entered college as freshmen in the days before …

Heads up all you prospective brides and bridegrooms: Let this latest mess be a lesson to you. Nothing escapes the attention of the media these days. Unless of course we’re busy with something important, in which case, everything escapes our attention. I know those seem a bit indiscernible words to …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” May 4, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: The Pentagon is now investigating charges of religious intolerance in the military; 55 complaints have been filed against the Air Force Academy (search) in Colorado Springs, …

WASHINGTON – Two major groups representing the textile industry, which is highly sensitive to foreign competition, came out on opposing sides Monday in the debate over a free trade agreement with six Central American and Caribbean countries. The National Council of Textile Organizations (search) announced its support for the Central …

MARANA, Ariz. – One man’s dead and ten other people hurt in the fiery crash of a hot-air balloon (search) in Arizona. Police in Marana, Arizona, say the man who died was in his 70’s and was from New York. He and his wife had been given a ride in …

TUCSON, Ariz. – Organizers of a project that uses civilian volunteers to watch for illegal immigrants and smugglers along the Arizona-Mexico border want to expand their efforts to other border states this fall. Participants in the Minuteman Project (search) have been patrolling a stretch of the southeastern Arizona border since …

WASHINGTON – The White House said Friday that President Bush and his wife were praying for Pope John Paul II (search) and that world’s concern over his failing health was “a testimony to his greatness.” Bush was briefed on the pontiff’s health Thursday evening by White House chief of staff …

NEW YORK – Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the world’s largest public oil company, on Thursday said quarterly profit jumped 44 percent on rising oil prices, but the results fell short of Wall Street expectations. Net income in the first quarter rose to $7.86 billion, or $1.22 a share, from $5.44 …