By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – NBC’s “Today” show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent – Jenna Hager, the daughter of former President George W. Bush.
Hager will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television’s top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive [...]
JERUSALEM (AP) – The Material Girl has opened a visit to the Holy Land with a spiritual touch.
Madonna headed to Jerusalem’s Old City late Sunday where she toured an ancient tunnel near the Western Wall – the holiest site where Jews can pray.
The 51-year-old pop star arrived in a black Mercedes van and was escorted [...]
By BETH HARRIS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) – “The Bold and the Beautiful” won drama series honors at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday, the CBS soap opera’s first such victory in 22 years on the air.
It was a poignant victory for executive producer Bradley Bell, whose late father William J. Bell co-created “The Young and [...]
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) – The son of the late leader of Iraq’s largest Shiite political party was chosen Monday to take the reins of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a party official said.
The choice of Ammar al-Hakim to succeed his father, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, was widely expected. But there have been questions whether [...]
By PETER ENAV
Associated Press Writer
SHIAO LIN, Taiwan (AP) – The Dalai Lama said Taiwan should have “very close and unique links” with China but also enjoy democracy as he arrived at a devastated village Monday to pray for victims of Taiwan’s worst storm in 50 years.
Beijing has voiced its opposition to the Dalai Lama’s visit, [...]
By RUSS BYNUM
Associated Press Writer
BRUNSWICK, Georgia (AP) – Toni Mugavin says she wonders if she needs to sleep with a gun under her pillow, afraid the killer of eight people at a mobile home is still on the loose and frustrated with the lack of information about what happened.
The eighth casualty came Sunday, a day [...]
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON and JULIET WILLIAMS
Associated Press Writers
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A wildfire in California threatened up to 12,000 homes on Monday, a day after two firefighters were killed when their vehicle was overrun by fast-moving flames and rolled down a mountainside.
An essential communications center in Los Angeles County and an astronomy center were [...]
By ADAM GOLDMAN and PAMELA HESS
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.
With Blackwater’s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services [...]
By DAVID McHUGH
AP Business Writer
LONDON (AP) – European shares fell Monday after Chinese stocks plunged nearly 7 percent and Japanese shares weakened after that nation’s opposition party came to power in a landslide victory.
Germany’s DAX 30 blue-chip index fell 0.7 percent to 5,476.87, while France’s CAC-40 was down 0.6 percent at 3670.43. The London Stock [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – Chemical company Huntsman Inc. has offered to pay about $415 million for Tronox Inc.’s titanium dioxide and electrolytics businesses.
Texas-based Huntsman Inc. said Monday it has signed a “stalking horse” agreement with Oklahoma City-based Tronox Inc., which filed for bankruptcy protection in January.
That means other companies may submit competing bids for Tronox’s [...]
