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WASHINGTON – A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer. At one audiotaped meeting, Rep. …

DILI, East Timor – East Timor’s foreign minister suggests Prime Minister Mari Alkatari may resign.

A Worcester, Mass., woman has been charged with raping and beating her teenage niece in a shocking abuse case that police are calling a “Cinderella-type situation.” The victim, who is now 16, was allegedly beaten with thorny rose stems, assaulted with frozen hot dogs, slammed to the floor and kicked …

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. – The days before he was arrested for allegedly beating his ex-girlfriend to death and kidnapping their daughter brought a string of bad news to James “Rafe” Mitchell, the son of late San Francisco pornography mogul Jim Mitchell. Last Tuesday, he was ordered to attend a yearlong …

SEOUL, South Korea – Prosecutors indicted Hyundai Motor Co. Chairman Chung Mong-koo on Tuesday in an embezzlement and slush fund scandal gripping South Korea’s largest automaker. Chung, 68, has been in custody since being arrested on April 28 on suspicion of embezzling about 100 billion won (US$106 million) in company …

WASHINGTON – As telephone companies deny their involvement in an alleged National Security Agency intelligence program that tracks millions of phone numbers, Bush administration officials have agreed to brief all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees on the NSA’s activities. Officials will head to Capitol Hill on Wednesday …

NEW YORK – A tourist who was one of four people stabbed during a 13-hour rampage in the city says he forgives the man who nearly killed him. Christopher McCarthy, 21, of Houston, was stabbed in the chest June 13 while he and his girlfriend were riding a subway train. …

WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday asked Congress for $160.5 million in emergency funds to help veterans and military personnel whose personal information was on a laptop computer stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee. In a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Bush said he was asking for the additional …

NEW YORK – Worldwide franchisees of Subway sandwich shops filed suit against the chain’s founder Fred DeLuca and the franchiser Doctor’s Associates Inc. Monday, claiming that terms of a new franchise agreement disregard existing commitments concerning marketing spending. The lawsuit was filed in Connecticut Superior Court in Ansonia-New Haven by …

ST. LOUIS – No way was Rick Jones going to be a couch potato. An athlete and youth coach who works out regularly, Jones dreams of someday hiking the Grand Canyon. A painful, arthritic hip started to slow him down, but at 52, he refused. Then he heard about a …