NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve (search) seems poised to push through its 11th consecutive hike in U.S. interest rates on Tuesday, notwithstanding the temporary blow to the economy from Hurricane Katrina (search). A Reuters poll of top Wall Street economists found 18 of 22 predict another quarter-percentage-point increase, to …

NEW YORK – Stocks fell Tuesday after the Federal Reserve raised the benchmark interest rate to its highest level since 2001 and gave no indication it’s near the end of its rate-increase campaign. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) was down 76.11 points, or 0.72 percent, to end at 10,481.52. …

NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana’s governor lashed out at the federal government Tuesday, accusing it of moving too slowly in recovering the bodies of those killed by Hurricane Katrina. The dead “deserve more respect than they have received,” Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search) said at state police headquarters in Baton Rouge. She …

Join host Brit Hume and FOX’s Team Washington weekdays at 6 p.m. ET for “Special Report” — Find out what’s happening inside the Beltway and on the world stage. Real journalism: fair and balanced. That’s why we’re No. 1 — FOX News Channel. Wednesday, September 28: • Representative Tom DeLay …

AMMAN, Jordan – Saddam Hussein’s (search) lawyer denied Thursday that the former president has confessed to ordering the deaths of more than 180,000 Kurds in the late 1980s. The lawyer, Khalil Dulaimi (search), was responding to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s remarks in a state television broadcast Tuesday that Saddam had …

This is a partial transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume,” September 8, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Special Report With Brit Hume” weeknights at 6 p.m. ET (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: If you want to help, support the Red …

ATLANTA – Hundreds of thousands of Georgia children got a break from classes Monday after Gov. Sonny Perdue (search) asked schools to close for two days as a hedge against possible fuel shortages, leaving many parents struggling to arrange child care. The shortages that Perdue feared never materialized, largely because …

It may be possible to remove whole ovaries, freeze them, and later thaw and transplant them, according to Israeli scientists. They did exactly that in tests on sheep. The thawed, transplanted ovaries worked for more than three years after the procedure, the scientists write in Human Reproduction. It’s not known …

Though a large-scale break out of infectious disease has yet to materialize on the Gulf Coast, health experts warned Friday that a public health crisis may have yet to be avoided. In areas where the water has receded, health officials were concerned about toxic dust the water has left behind. …

WASHINGTON – House Republicans derailed Democratic attempts on Wednesday to force the Bush administration to surrender documents on prewar intelligence and the disclosure of the identity of a CIA (search) operative. Democrats have introduced several “resolutions of inquiry” to compel President Bush and members of his Cabinet to release all …