WASHINGTON – After 30 hours of staff interviews and 1,000 pages of transcripts, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are now scheduled to vote Thursday on John R. Bolton‘s (search) nomination to be U.N. ambassador. Still, Republicans and Democrats don’t seem any closer to agreement about the man nominated …

NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyans are eager to adopt a baby girl abandoned in a forest and later saved by a stray dog, officials said Tuesday. “The publicity on the way the baby was rescued has sparked a lot of public interest in helping her,” said Hannah Gakuo of Kenyatta National …

NEW YORK – Toll Brothers Inc. (TOL), a builder of luxury homes, on Thursday reported that quarterly profit more than doubled on strong demand and rising prices, and raised its full-year earnings forecast. The strong report and earnings outlook lifted shares of the homebuilder by 3.2 percent in premarket trading …

It’s a modeling catfight. Take a gander at any fashion show’s lineup of living mannequins and you might think it was the Warsaw Pact countries that won the Cold War. And you might be right, if you’re talking about modeling. Catwalks nowadays are brimming with strutting owners of those telltale …

SEOUL, South Korea – Asian governments on Monday played down the significance of North Korea’s latest missile test, saying it involved a short-range weapon unable to reach as far as Japan and with no link to the communist North’s nuclear program. North Korea apparently test-fired a missile into the Sea …

This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” May 3, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Tuesday night, the State of Florida is cracking down on child molesters. Just weeks after the body of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford was found near her home, Florida Governor …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – An Israeli aircraft fired missiles near a Palestinian refugee camp on Monday, destroying two rocket launchers and wounding three people, while Israel published a list of 400 Palestinian prisoners to be released later this week. The prisoner release, which was set for Thursday, is part …

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Out-of-the-ordinary news from the folks at Studio B… Running Wild You would think he’d be easy to spot on the streets of Tokyo (search). There aren’t many like him around. He’s just two feet tall, 33 lbs. and he’s got hair — lots of it — from head to toe. …

ATLANTA – A police chief has reopened an investigation into four of the child slayings that terrorized the Atlanta area more than two decades ago, saying he believes the man suspected in most of the killings is innocent. Altogether, 29 people — all of them black, most of them boys …