This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” October 2, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: That is a clip from “Sex and the City” of Samantha spying on her man. Women do that in real life, too, you know. And some …
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WASHINGTON – Democratic Rep. Harold Ford is running even with Republican Bob Corker in Tennessee, while Democrat Jon Tester has edged ahead of Sen. Conrad Burns in Montana, according to polls released Sunday for some of the most contested Senate races. The findings suggest an intensely competitive campaign for Congress …
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LUXEMBOURG – European Union and U.S. negotiators reached a deal on the sharing of trans-Atlantic air passenger data used in anti-terror investigations, diplomats said Friday. Details of the agreement — reached a week after the two sides missed an Oct. 1 deadline — were not immediately revealed. It followed a …
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WASHINGTON – Awaiting the recommendations of a commission exploring U.S. options in Iraq, the White House on Thursday emphatically ruled out some proposals to end the war. Presidential spokesman Tony Snow said a suggestion to divide Iraq into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish regions, each with high degrees of autonomy, was …
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ALBANY, N.Y. – Sen. Hillary Clinton‘s Republican challenger on Monday flatly denied telling a reporter that Clinton was unattractive when she was younger and suggesting she had had “millions of dollars” of “work.” John Spencer, a former Yonkers mayor, acknowledged talking to the reporter during a flight on Friday but …
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Until now, if you wanted to share slideshow content with someone in a remote location, you needed to e-mail them an enormous file or burn them a DVD, and send it via snail mail. Slideshare, a new beta Web application, aims to make sharing PowerPoint presentations online as easy as …
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LAS VEGAS – The federal racketeering trial of 11 Hells Angels motorcycle club members came to a sudden end Wednesday after six defendants accepted plea deals to reduce charges stemming from a deadly casino brawl. The men also entered plea agreements in a parallel state criminal case, sparing them the …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Hall of Fame football coach Bill Walsh, who built an NFL dynasty with the San Francisco 49ers and revolutionized the sport with his West Coast offense, disclosed Friday that he has leukemia. Stanford officials confirmed that Walsh, who served as the school’s interim athletic director until July, …
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VATICAN CITY – A movie about the birth of Jesus Christ made its world premiere Sunday at the Vatican, the first time a feature film debuted here. Some 7,000 people showed up at the benefit screening of “The Nativity story” in Paul VI Hall, the auditorium regularly used for audiences …
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New York – Navy divers probed the murky Hudson River on Tuesday to figure out how to free the USS Intrepid from the mud that has stranded the World War II ship at its Manhattan pier. The six divers, who could barely see more than 2 feet through the dark …
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