Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces intended to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal, US officials say.

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Robert Horry can't understand the uproar over his foul on Steve Nash.

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A federal judge Monday blocked enforcement of a voter-endorsed ordinance preventing apartment rentals to most illegal immigrants in this Dallas suburb, opponents of the ban said.

The ordinance was to take effect Tuesday, more than a week after voters approved it. Opponents had filed three requests in federal court for an injunction to stop its enforcement.

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Residents of Tripoli expressed support for the army’s efforts. “This should have happened from the start,” said one man, who stood in a crowd of onlookers as the tanks fired into the camp. The crowd shouted, “God is great, and God protect the army,” with each shell fired.

“We wish the government would destroy the whole camp and the rest of the camps,” said another in the crowd, Ahmad al-Marooq. “Nothing good comes out of the Palestinians.”

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For all you Civil War buffs...

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A group of journalists at a state-controlled broadcast news agency in Russia have resigned en masse in one of the few open rebellions in recent years against censorship imposed by the Kremlin.

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Dude, what?

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A long time ago, in a Hollywood era far, far away, the story of an intergalactic battle between good and evil took the world by storm -- and changed the movie industry forever.

Thirty years after Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Han Solo were introduced to the world in "Star Wars" on May 25, 1977, the seismic impact of George Lucas's science-fiction saga is still being felt.

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“I have said all along that there was a second, and possibly even a third, individual involved,” said long-time Kennedy family friend, Samuel P. Thurston. “And that Senator Kennedy has been made a scapegoat by others with sinister motives. I am glad that the new photographic evidence bears this out.”

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Even by astronomical standards, Roger Angel thinks big.

Angel, a leading astronomer at the University of Arizona, is proposing an enormous liquid-mirror telescope on the moon that could be hundreds of times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope.

Using a rotating dish of reflective liquid as its primary mirror, Angel's telescope would the largest ever built, and would permit astronomers to study the oldest and most distant objects in the universe, including the very first stars.

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Raymon Miller, left, and his twin brother, Richard, have been fighting in court for four years over the paternity of a child born by a woman both men were sleeping with. 

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Pop quiz! What factors help determine how wealthy you'll become in life? I initially guessed that education, intelligence, skills, and socioeconomic origin played a role.

Ohio State economics professor Jay Zagorsky suggests different factors: "Staying married, not getting divorced, thinking about savings." Wow.

Not only did he not list intelligence, he went on to note that "intelligence really isn't one of the key driving forces. In fact, people at the middle of the smarts spectrum have the fewest money problems."

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So let me get this straight. A couple of weeks ago, Don Imus gets fired for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed ho's." A few weeks later, the same guy who led the anti-Imus charge, Rev. Al Sharpton, refers to Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney by saying "those that really believe in God will defeat him." And the media say next to nothing?

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Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have rallied in the streets of Caracas to protest against President Hugo Chavez's plans to close a private TV station.

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The US Senate was set to take the almost unprecedented move of a no-confidence vote on US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, ramping up pressure on President George W. Bush to sack his unpopular longtime aide.

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A good message for consideration...

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Moore's health-care film gets rough reception.

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When word of the McCain incident began to leak late Friday, we found Senate offices circling the wagons, trying to avoid talking about it. We believe that accounts published to date fail to provide the context necessary to understand the incident properly. We have pieced together the following account that we believe more accurately relates the incident and provides the necessary context.

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On Friday I posted about complaints filed in Hong Kong against the Bible as a violent and indecent book, demanding that it be kept away from minors. It seemed to be another strange story out of China, and some of our commenters speculated that the Chinese government, being afraid of Christianity within China, was using this pretext for a crackdown on Christians.

However, as is often the case with China, things are not entirely what they seem. A reader with a thorough knowledge of affairs in Hong Kong wrote us this morning:

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