WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Friday it will go ahead with plans to establish normal diplomatic relations with Libya despite pressure to slow the process from families of Americans killed in the Pan Am 103 airliner bombing. The United States will remove Libya from its list of nations that …

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. – A man who has refused to reveal the whereabouts of his children for nearly two years was found guilty Thursday of kidnapping the youngsters to terrorize his ex-wife. The jury took about four hours to convict Daniel Porter, 42. Porter has given various accounts of what happened …

BOSTON – A group of Boston-area scientists has come up with what they say is a better way of tracking and estimating fish populations, which in turn could change the way fishery regulators manage the resource. The new sonar technique is able to scan for fish over an area a …

WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., called the leak of intelligence information “inappropriate” if it is …

WASHINGTON – The future and character of the United States will be largely determined in the next year by getting over a longtime dependency on foreign oil, progress in Iraq, the growing threat from Iran and concerted efforts to take care of America’s own, President Bush said Tuesday night during …

LOS ANGELES – Eight days after Hurricane Katrina hit, Michael Jackson announced he would release an all-star charity single within two weeks. Nearly six months later, after questions about exactly who would be participating, the prince who has been hosting Jackson during his self-imposed exile in Bahrain says the song …

NEW YORK – Pick up this month’s Hollywood issue of Vanity Fair and you’ll see two lovely young stars-of-the-moment, Keira Knightley and Scarlett Johansson, posing alluringly in the altogether. Open the foldout, and you’ll even see Johansson’s bare buttocks. What you won’t see is a third, equally lovely young actress, …

PARIS – Cave drawings thought to be older than those in the famed caves of Lascaux have been discovered in a grotto in western France, officials from the Charente region said Sunday. A first analysis by officials from the office of cultural affairs suggests the drawings were made some 25,000 …

LOS ANGELES – THE steamy three-way lesbian shower fantasy scene that kicked off a post-Super Bowl episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” kept millions from tuning out ABC after the game ended. It didn’t hurt that a whopping 90.7 million viewers had tuned in to watch the Super Bowl, making it one …

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell holds a double-digit lead over his only GOP challenger, former Pittsburgh Steelers star Lynn Swann, and Republicans are split over whether Swann has the experience to be governor, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll was conducted Feb 8-13, a stretch during …