SAN FRANCISCO – With Barry Bonds still firmly in the sights of a federal steroid investigation, prosecutors will impanel a new grand jury to take up where an outgoing one left off Thursday and consider perjury and tax-evasion charges against the star slugger. “We are not finished,” U.S. Attorney Kevin …

SAN FRANCISCO – In March 1990, when few people had even heard of the Internet, U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Texas offices of a small board-game maker, seizing computer equipment and reading customers’ e-mail stored on one machine. A group of online pioneers already worried about how the nation’s …

CAIRO, Egypt – Two of the four suicide bombers who attacked London last July 7 spent time at an Al Qaeda camp to prepare themselves for a suicide mission, the deputy leader of the terror network claimed in a video Friday. British authorities previously said they knew Shehzad Tanweer and …

WASHINGTON – Democrats gained some traction in their election-year campaign to raise the minimum wage Wednesday when 64 Republicans joined in a symbolic vote supporting more money for the nation’s lowest-paid workers. The House voted 260-159 to urge House-Senate negotiators to include a minimum wage boost, from the current $5.15 …

LOS ANGELES – Michael Flatley has won a court ruling that allows him to sue a woman who claimed he had raped her. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Flatley’s $100 million extortion and defamation lawsuit against Tyna Marie Robertson can proceed to trial. Flatley, 48, is the former …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose limited sanctions on North Korea for its recent missile tests, and demanded that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program. North Korea immediately rejected the resolution and vowed to launch more missiles. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton …

BAGHDAD – Editor’s note: U.S. Army Capt. Dan Sukman is serving a one-year deployment to Iraq. For previous entries and his bio, see the Soldier’s Diary archives. 22 July 2006 We lost another soldier tonight. Over the course of 10 months, that brings our unit’s total losses to 50. You …

PHOENIX – Arizona attorneys have urged a federal appeals court to resolve the debate over funding for some 160,000 children struggling to learn English in the state. Lawyers representing Arizona legislators and state schools chief Tom Horne asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Tuesday …

LINCOLN, Nebraska – Courts handed victories to gay-marriage opponents in two states Friday, reinstating Nebraska’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage and throwing out an attempt to keep a proposed ban off the ballot in Tennessee. In the Nebraska case, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a judge’s ruling …

CHICAGO – A 5-year-old Chicago girl who was sedated during a visit to the dentist never woke up and remained in a coma late last night at Children’s Memorial Hospital. Hospital officials say Diamond Brownridge, who had just started kindergarten, was on life support and in critical condition. The girl’s …