BAGHDAD, Iraq – More than 100 people died on Thursday in widespread violence across Iraq, including a roadside bombing that killed four U.S. soldiers, as the number of Sunni mosques attacked rose to 168 following the bombing of a holy Shiite shrine and discussions on forming a unity government were …

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Twenty-one gay rights activists were detained at the U.S. Military Academy and issued federal citations Wednesday while protesting the Pentagon‘s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The academy was their last stop on a cross-country tour of 20 conservative Christian and military colleges that protest organizers say …

CAMARILLO, Calif. – Retail gas prices across the country jumped an average of nearly a quarter per gallon in the past two weeks, according to a survey released Sunday. Self-serve regular averaged $2.91 a gallon, up from $2.67 two weeks ago, said Trilby Lundberg, who publishes the nationwide Lundberg Survey …

CHICAGO – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton warned a group of business leaders that America’s “red-ink fiscal policies” will make the country less competitive in the global economy. “I think a return to fiscal discipline, living within our means is essential for our long-term health,” she told a meeting Tuesday of …

SYDNEY, Australia – Prime Minister John Howard told a government inquiry on Thursday he never saw nearly a dozen diplomatic cables warning that Australia’s monopoly wheat exporter might have been paying millions of dollars in alleged bribes to Saddam Hussein under the U.N.’s discredited oil-for-food program. Howard was the most …

ROME – The granddaughter of wartime Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini said Tuesday she will be a candidate for mayor of Rome in next month’s elections. Alessandra Mussolini ran in the April 9-10 parliamentary elections with a small right-wing party supporting conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi. But her party failed to make …

This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” April 5, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Andrew Kissel was not a well-liked man. He had fraud charges pending in two Manhattan courts, a mountain of debt, and he was in the middle of a …

WASHINGTON – Republican senators uncertain of support for a proposal to allow illegal immigrants with jobs to remain in this country reached for a compromise late Monday to bolster votes for the measure. Meeting into the evening in the office of Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., the lawmakers considered allowing …

WASHINGTON – The Democrats captured the House and Senate last month largely by promising better strategies for ending the war in Iraq and shoring up U.S. defenses at home. Now comes the hard part: making it happen. As Congress prepares to turn over the reins of power on Jan. 4, …

ROCKVILLE, Md. – A former White House adviser pleaded guilty to theft Friday, briefly breaking into tears as he tried to explain to a judge why he made phony returns at discount department stores while working as a top aide to President Bush. “Something did go very wrong,” Claude Allen …