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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said Wednesday night that he was told he was "seconds, maybe a minute away from dying" immediately after his motorcycle accident last month.
Conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon said Friday that the United States and Canada should help build a Mexican economy strong enough to keep people from migrating north in search of work.
Scientists have a new test that can tell within four hours if a bird is possibly infected with bird flu — but it still will take about a week to know if that suspect case is really sick with the deadly Asian strain, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Tuesday.
A deadly bird flu virus will likely slip into the United States through a pretty package: either majestic swans flying across the Bering Strait into Alaska or from smuggled exotic wildlife at one of the nation's ports.
Princes William and Harry have admitted to a royal indulgence — "American Idol."
Rick Sutcliffe, a Cy Young award winner and ESPN baseball analyst, gave a rambling, slurred interview during the local television broadcast of the Brewers-Padres game Wednesday night.
Rep. John Murtha, a Vietnam veteran first elected in the anti-war fever of 1974, says American troops will be brought home from Iraq by 2007.
The number of airline flight delays in April was 31 percent higher than the same month last year, thanks mostly to a thunderstorm pattern that could mean trouble ahead for summer travelers, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday.
New Orleans is making discouragingly slow progress toward showing it can support the Hornets, owner George Shinn said Monday.
Excerpts from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on an Iranian letter to President Bush:
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Americans want to see progress in Iraq, but that President Bush will not be swayed by domestic politics when deciding how long U.S. forces should stay.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, working with poor countries on programs to thwart bird flu, said Tuesday a worldwide outbreak would disrupt the global economy in addition to causing a devastating loss of life.
One of the two former police detectives convicted of moonlighting as hitmen for the mob insists he was framed, calling himself "the most perfect scapegoat in history."
Even if bird flu does arrive on U.S. shores on the wings of a migratory bird, the virus is unlikely to makes the inroads in poultry — or in people — that it has in less developed countries, the nation's top avian influenza expert says.
With a limited role in helping New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina's wrath, the federal government is weighing how much it should spend to improve levees there, the Bush administration's recovery coordinator says.
Quotes from Don Powell, the White House coordinator for Gulf Coast recovery, from an Associated Press interview Thursday:
Much of New Orleans' rebirth from Hurricane Katrina hinges on factors beyond the government's control and could take up to a quarter-century to complete, the Bush administration's Gulf Coast recovery chief said Thursday.
The elderly and disabled are likely to have fewer choices next year when it comes to the number of private plans offering prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
The nation's chief Medicare official said Tuesday he opposes "at this point" calls to extend the May 15 deadline for enrolling in the new prescription drug benefit without a penalty.
Unbent, unbowed and ultimately unsuccessful, Bode Miller said in an interview Saturday he is skiing away from these Olympics on his own terms — content without any medals and impressed by the local nightlife.
Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says he knows from personal experience as a Kellogg's executive the adverse impact of China's lax enforcement of copyright laws.
Transcript of Vice President Dick Cheney's interview Wednesday with Brit Hume of Fox News Channel, as released by the White House. Cheney addresses his shooting Saturday of a hunting companion, 78-year-old Harry Whittington of Austin, Texas, at a ranch owned by Katharine Armstrong about 60 miles south of Corpus Christi, Texas:
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch plans to take on CNBC, launching a competing business news channel by the end of the year, he said in a magazine interview.