WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of the Jan. 20, 2008, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: President Bush said Friday the slumping economy needs a shot in the arm to the tune of $145 billion. But will congressional Democrats …
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WASHINGTON – The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says waterboarding is torture. “There’s just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture,” Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview with the Associated Press. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in …
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McLEAN, Va. – A New Orleans furniture salesman pleaded guilty Tuesday to spying for the Chinese government and providing Beijing with secret information on U.S.-Taiwan military relations. Tai Shen Kuo, 58, a Taiwan native and naturalized U.S. citizen, faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 8. …
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SAN DIEGO – Leaking natural gas caused an explosion that injured 14 construction workers and damaged four floors of an unfinished 30-story hotel, authorities said Tuesday. The blast at the bayside Hilton Monday afternoon was an apparent accident, caused by a gas leak in a fifth-floor utility room, said San …
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WASHINGTON – A Customs and Border Protection program aimed at tightening port security through private self-monitoring is not producing the security it should, a Senate-requested audit shows. A report released Monday by the Government Accountability Office says the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program relies too heavily on self-reported information from …
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NEW YORK – A man is suing a posh Manhattan spa after a 65-pound pit bull nearly turned his 10-pound schnauzer into doggy biscuits. The lawsuit alleges that shaggy schnauzer Diesel was left helpless at the Biscuits & Bath spa on Fifth Avenue when the larger pit bull got loose …
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NEW ORLEANS – A steamship that sank off the Louisiana coast during an 1846 storm has produced a trove of rare gold coins, including some produced at two, mostly forgotten U.S. mints in the South, coin experts say. Last year, four Louisiana residents salvaged hundreds of gold coins and thousands …
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BEIJING – First, the water level in a pond inexplicably plunged. Then, thousands of toads appeared on streets in a nearby province. Finally, just hours before China’s worst earthquake in three decades, animals at a local zoo began acting strangely. As bodies are pulled from the wreckage of Monday’s quake, …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – A Toledo-area couple whose son has been missing for a month and may be held for ransom announced a $250,000 reward for information regarding his disappearance. Tom and Pamela Wiles said at a news conference Thursday that $50,000 of the reward money is for information about the …
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A fast-thinking woman used her cell phone to call police after she was abducted from a Target parking lot in Colorado Springs, it was reported. According to MyFoxColorado.com the woman was hit on the head with a brick, bound with tape and thrown into the back seat of her car. …
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