IN THE HEADLINES Clinton tells Oregonians she won't give up, unveils 3 new ads ... McCain asks staff to disclose lobbying connections ... Huckabee quips about gun aimed at Obama in speech to NRA, later issues apology...

Being dead since 1940 hasn't kept Idaho U.S. Sen. William Borah from being inserted squarely into 2008 presidential politics after Democratic candidate Barack Obama took issue with President Bush's borrowing of a quote...

!!-- AUDIO:235,218,217 -->Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle...

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she wasn't ceding Oregon _ or the nomination _ to opponent Barack Obama, who is heavily favored to collect another victory here next week as he comes closer to winning the...

L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, announced Friday that he would not seek re-election as Richmond's mayor, likely bringing his storied political career to a close. The 77-year-old grandson...

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ___ ABC's "This Week" _ Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. ___ CBS' "Face the Nation" _ Gov. Charlie Crist, R-Fla.; Republican strategist Ed Rollins;...

!!-- pobj:CAFRE101-0516080321 -->!!-- pobj:CAFRE102-0516080321 -->A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing...

A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday. Undercover officers posing as a 13-year-old girl communicated...

Three Mexican men held dozens of illegal immigrants in a squalid "drop house" in South Los Angeles, where one woman was raped and others say they were threatened with sexual assault, authorities said Friday. Jose Teul,...

!!-- pobj:NCFAY501-0222081855 -->An ailing 81-year-old North Carolina man who escaped from a Maryland prison 43 years ago was taken into custody Friday to face extradition, a move his attorneys decried as a waste of...

A human rights leader says Islamist fighters have seized a southern town in Somalia that is a major agricultural center, compelling hundreds of refugees to flee. Ali Bashi, of Fanole rights groups, says Islamic Courts...

The brother of Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan says the envoy has been released _ three months after he was kidnapped near the border between the two countries. Tariq Azizuddin disappeared along Feb. 11 along with...

American experts are monitoring nuclear facilities in China's earthquake zone, officials said Friday, after France's nuclear watchdog reported that some had suffered minor damage. The French Institute for Radiological...

Chinese state news agency says that soldiers have dug out a 52-year-old man who was buried in ruins for 117 hours after a massive earthquake hit China. The officials Xinhua News Agency said the man had been buried...

Canadian energy officials Friday scrapped development of a nuclear reactor project to produce radioactive isotopes for the diagnoses of cancer and other illnesses, citing costs of the program. The decision means the...

A bitter 80-day United Auto Workers strike against an auto parts maker that has crippled dozens of General Motors Corp. factories could be coming to an end soon with a tentative contract agreement reached Friday. Renee...

News that Saudi Arabia had boosted its oil output by 300,000 barrels a day was greeted as a non-event on oil markets _ the move wasn't anywhere near the kind of production increase needed to bring prices down on Friday....

Federal health authorities are directing a Pasadena, Texas, company to shut down and recall all its dried smoked catfish steaks and other smoked seafood produced since June 2007 because it failed to develop safety...

A striking United Auto Workers local at a key General Motors Corp. factory ratified a new contract with the company Friday afternoon and will resume production on Monday. UAW Local 602 said on its Web site its members...

Construction of new homes increased by the biggest percentage in more than two years in April, a rare spot of good news amid the worst downturn in housing in more than two decades. Analysts, however, played down the...

Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web sites, credited to the Insight News &...

!!-- pobj:ASIANYET163-0513081825 -->For an illness shared by so many, clinical depression should be better understood and more openly addressed. Even so, a social stigma and shame is still linked to this disorder on...

Eva Longoria Parker gets to play dress-up at the Cannes Film Festival _ and she doesn't even have to pack her own suitcase. "My bag is packed when I come because my stylist thinks about every event we have, every...

Daytime's "The View" will rerun one of its shows in two weeks from an entirely different view that lets fans know a little about what goes on backstage. Producers will attempt the experiment with the Memorial Day...

Asked if his band's performance in an hour's time will include any theatrics, Nick Urata warns: "There will be some death-defying feats of glory." He laughs and then adds: "Seriously. Not by me." When Urata's band...

Joe Torre doesn't mind that he was left off the coaching staff for the All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. He might not have accepted an invitation anyway. "I'm with a new team now," Torre told The Associated Press Friday...

N.Y. Rangers 4, New Jersey 1 Friday, April 11 N.Y. Rangers 2, New Jersey 1 Sunday, April 13 New Jersey 4, N.Y. Rangers 3, OT Wednesday, April 16 N.Y. Rangers 5, New Jersey 3 Friday, April 18 N.Y. Rangers 5, New...

Boston 104, Atlanta 81, Boston leads series 1-0 Atlanta at Boston, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23 Boston 96, Atlanta 77 Saturday, April 26 Atlanta 102, Boston 93 Monday, April 28 Atlanta 97, Boston 92 Wednesday,...

Kobe Bryant scored 34 points and Los Angeles held off a furious rally by the Utah Jazz for a 108-105 victory Friday night, putting the Lakers in the Western Conference finals for the first time in four years. The Jazz...

Eric Byrnes lined out to left field in his first at-bat Friday night and finally felt good about his swing. Byrnes broke out of a monthlong slump with a homer and two RBIs, Dan Haren pitched seven innings and the...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--"The California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex couples as well as to opposite-sex...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)--It's here. The second film in "The Chronicles of Narnia" series, "Prince Caspian" (PG) hits theaters this weekend. It's bigger, and some say better, than the first installment. But with the...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP)--Arkansas Baptist disaster relief teams have had their hands full lately, with massive flooding that damaged hundreds of homes, then multiple tornadoes on Feb. 5, April 3, May 2 and May 10 that...

BRYAN, Texas (BP)--A minister from Prestonwood Baptist Church has been arrested in a sting operation for soliciting sex with a minor.Joe Barron, 52, a minister to married adults at the Dallas-area church, was arrested...

WASHINGTON (BP)--Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- known far better for terminating motherhood than for promoting it -- nonetheless found a way to turn Mother's Day into an excuse for fundraising.The country's...

A hepatitis C outbreak was caused by workers improperly reusing syringes and medicine vials at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted by...

A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of Mexico City's 1985 quake. Now, in China, rescuers are...

Health regulators warned again Friday that Roche and Novartis drugs prescribed to organ transplant patients can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women. The Food and Drug Administration last...

Breast cancer patients with low levels of vitamin D were much more likely to die of the disease or have it spread than patients getting enough of the nutrient, a study found _ adding to evidence the "sunshine vitamin"...

A combination of two new-generation cancer drugs modestly delayed the time it took for cancer to worsen in a study of 300 women with very advanced disease who had stopped responding to other treatments. It was the...

Cable TV, phone and Internet service provider Charter Communications drew concern Friday from two congressmen and a privacy advocate over its plan to experiment with tracking its customers' Web use in collaboration with...

Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder questions over the...

Classified ad Web site Craigslist is denying online auctioneer eBay's allegation that it unfairly diluted eBay's stake in it and says its board was acting to protect the company. Craigslist, based in San Francisco,...

A Russian supply ship docked to the international space station on Friday, delivering more than 2 tons of food, water, equipment and scientific experiments. The three men aboard the space station monitored everything...

Former satellite TV provider EchoStar Corp. on Sunday will demonstrate its first product for cable companies at the industry's trade show: a unit that can tune in television and act as a cable modem. The SlingModem,...

Wet weather was expected Friday from New England all the way south to the Gulf Coast. Severe thunderstorms were anticipated along the coastline of the Southeast, with damaging winds and a few weak tornadoes forecast in...

A storm was expected to move across the Mississippi Valley and along the Appalachian Mountains on Thursday, bringing rain and thunderstorms through the Southeast and lower half of the Mississippi Valley. There was a...

A line of storms stretched from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Valley early Wednesday, while both coasts warmed up beneath clear skies. A large portion of the Southern Plains eastward into the Lower Mississippi...

An arc of stormy weather stretched from the upper Midwest to portions of the Four Corners early Tuesday, with thunderstorms possible in the South and rain for the Pacific Northwest. The storm system in the upper...

Rain was forecast for much of the Northeast. Storms were expected to cause significant and extended flooding along the Delaware river. Coastal flooding also was likely from Delaware through Long Island, with the worst...