BIG BAY, Mich. – A 14-year-old Michigan boy has completed a four-day, 100-mile trip in his wheelchair as part of a fundraiser. Gene Fletcher said he raised more than $20,000 for the Bay Cliff Health Camp, a nonprofit therapy and wellness center on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for children and adults …

KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective during his second term. Karzai’s appeal, made in a message …

As a former (recovering) professional magician, I’ve seen and perpetrated my share of sleight-of-hand. But I have never seen anything quite like the linguistic and budgetary legerdemain Democrats have performed to make President Obama’s health-care plan appear “affordable.” Congressional Democrats have been forced into such chicanery because of the price …

PALATKA, Fla. – Authorities say two escaped Florida inmates who are still on the loose killed a woman and stole two cars. Police say 23-year-old Doni Ray Brown and 25-year-old Timothy Wayne Fletcher broke out of the Putnam County Jail in Palatka at 4 a.m. Wednesday and stole a truck. …

WASHINGTON – Two million dead. Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out. The world is not remotely close to what U.S. government planners are considering a worst-case scenario: a global pandemic. Government leaders at all levels, and …

That down-on-his-luck PC guy from the Apple commercials may be exacting his revenge. A new type of computer threat specifically for computers running Mac OS X has the blogosphere in uproar as Macintosh owners realize their machines could be just as vulnerable to the cyberattacks that most often target Windows …

This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” April 29, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: All right, well, just sworn and just revving up, Kathleen Sebelius in charge today, but wasn’t it Homeland Security Chief …

STAMFORD, Conn. – A chimpanzee that mauled a Connecticut woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system, according to toxicology tests, but investigators haven’t determined whether the drug played a role in the attack, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Authorities are still weighing whether to file criminal charges against the …

A striking image of how Madeleine McCann might look now, if still alive, has been released by her parents. The picture was sent out ahead of the second anniversary of her disappearance. Gerry and Kate McCann employed a forensic imaging artist to produce a photographic impression of how the youngster …

Doctors in Mumbai, India removed a cancerous tumor from the abdomen of a 62-year-old woman that had grown so large she couldn’t even see her feet, DNA India reported on its Web Site. Satyavati Sawant was suffering from a rare form of cancer called leiomyosarcoma, but admits she waited almost …