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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in a federal job application in 1985 that he was proud to have worked on cases that argued there is no constitutional right to an abortion. But whether the judge’s apparent personal views would affect the way he casts votes from the …

BILOXI, Miss. – After Hurricane Katrina roared in, Gov. Haley Barbour (search) quickly convened a special legislative session and, just 10 days after the storm, appointed a commission to study rebuilding Mississippi’s coastline. The former Republican National Committee chairman and influential Washington lobbyist also traveled to the nation’s capital several …

In a bid to strengthen its standings in the online media market, Yahoo Inc. has launched new music video services, the Internet media giant revealed Tuesday. “The music video is perfectly suited for the Internet because short-form programming is such a strength,” said Jay Frank (search), head of Label Relations …

WASHINGTON – Turns out, the kids rocked after all. Nearly half of all eligible young voters cast ballots in the November 2004 election, raising their turnout rate by more than twice any other age group. “This is big,” said David King, associate director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard …

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks rose on Monday after oil prices settled below $60 a barrel, easing concerns about higher oil costs and prompting investors to shift money out of energy shares and into the undervalued technology and financial sectors. Technology bellwether Intel Corp. (INTC) and Citigroup Inc. (C), the …

President Bush on Friday shot back at critics claiming his administration misconstrued or lied about pre-war intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, saying “it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.” “The stakes in the global War on Terror are too …

WASHINGTON – Airline pilots need better warning systems to avoid collisions at increasingly crowded airports, federal accident investigators said Tuesday in announcing transportation safety priorities. Other recommendations that made the National Transportation Safety Board‘s annual list of most-wanted improvements: — Require children under 2 to be restrained in safety seats …

NEW YORK – Job cuts announced by U.S. corporations in February increased 17 percent from the prior month, according to a report Wednesday. Announced job cuts for February totaled 108,387, compared with 92,351 in January, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas (search). It was the fourth time in …

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – The prosecution in Michael Jackson‘s (search) child molestation trial showed jurors Friday its most controversial piece of evidence — a sexually explicit magazine containing three fingerprints from Jackson’s accuser and one from the pop star himself. The defense has contended that the boy and Jackson never …

WASHINGTON – A substantive reduction in the number of U.S. forces in Iraq (search) won’t likely be seen until sometime between 2006 and 2008, a top Army general said Wednesday. The talk of a general timetable for drawdown stems from improvements in Iraqi security forces and successes against the insurgency, …