While hundreds of thousands of people displaced from the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina have established new lives in faraway places throughout the country, there are thousands more for whom home is a white box. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than 73,000 of its trailers are occupied by …

BEIRUT, Lebanon – This is the eleventh installment of an ongoing blog written by American Spencer Witte, a native New York resident who is studying and living in Beirut, Lebanon. August 3, 2006 “A Day” I’m a 24-year-old American who, as of July 12, 2006, had never been in a …

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. John McCain said Friday he supports the U.S. mission in Iraq days after faulting the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing it would be “some kind of day at the beach.” The potential 2008 presidential candidate and staunch war supporter issued a statement explaining his …

BANGKOK, Thailand – Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has announced that an ambitious project to provide low-cost laptop computers to all of Thailand’s millions of elementary school students will begin in October. The U.S.-based “One Laptop per Child” project aims to deliver up to 30 computers to Thailand in October and …

GREEN BANK, W.Va. – Eight new complex, carbon-containing molecules have been found in two interstellar clouds by an international research team using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope. The team detected acetamide, cyclopropenone, propenal, propanal and ketenimine in Sagittarius B2 (N), while methyl-cyano-diacetylene, methyl-triacetylene and cyanoallene were found in …

MEDINAH, Illinois – The PGA Championship has rarely looked so easy. With Tiger Woods atop the leaderboard, winning the final major of the year could still be as hard as ever. His final birdie Saturday came on the par-3 17th hole, a 12-foot putt that nearly spun out of the …

FARGO, N.D. – Attorneys for the man accused of abducting college student Dru Sjodin from a shopping mall parking lot and killing her rested their case Tuesday after calling just one witness. Closing arguments in the trial of Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. were expected Tuesday afternoon, and U.S. District Judge Ralph …

BALTIMORE – A Maine man was charged Sunday with four counts of breaking and entering at Mayor Martin O’Malley‘s gubernatorial campaign headquarters, police said. Jason Yereance, 42, of Boothbay, Maine, was arrested after police responded to a forced entry alarm at about 3:40 a.m. in the Baltimore building where O’Malley’s …

MEXICO CITY – Supporters of a leftist president candidate who are occupying the cultural and financial heart of Mexico’s capital said Tuesday they planned to expand protests aimed at pressuring authorities to order an election recount. The backers of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador — who finished an agonizingly close second …

Hope you had a great weekend, albeit hot I bet, and today should be another scorcher across much of our land. So my prescription for all of you is to park in front of your air conditioner and watch FOX News Channel all the livelong day. Over the weekend I …