It was just a few weeks after September 11, 2001 when Condoleezza Rice accompanied the president on a trip to China for the APEC summit. In Shanghai Vice President Cheney appeared on a secure video conference line and delivered President George W. Bush this message:

A new poll regarding big cities finds New Jerseyans feel safest in ... Manhattan! Atlantic City came in second place in the Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll. Faring less well were Newark, Trenton and Camden, and Philadelphia.

U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.

Kris Humphries(notes) had a suspicion his celebrity wife Kim Kardashian could be bailing on their marriage, but has told NBA friends he was "blindsided" by Monday's divorce filing and learned of the news through a TMZ report like the rest of the world.

During more than two decades of covering the NFL, I've heard players disparage opponents on numerous occasions. As a journalist who has yet to be crushed by the proliferation of trash-talk, I've happily facilitated this dastardly dissing and shared it with the masses when given the chance.

n his last years, Steven P. Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new biography to be published on Monday.

n case you are reading this, might we suggest you read really fast? The world may end any minute now, if the latest doomsday prediction is on target.

Freshly liberated from the threat of deposed ruler Moammar Gadhafi, Libyans now face the arduous challenges of repairing the war-ravaged country and building a democratic system from the ruins of a four-decade dictatorship.

The flavor featuring fudge-covered rum balls has been absent from some grocery freezers since it was unveiled. The title was inspired by an innuendo-laced 1998 skit featuring Alec Baldwin as baker Pete Schweddy, who promises, "No one can resist my Schweddy balls."

The death of Libyan strongman Muammar Qadhafi Thursday has sharpened the contrast between President Barack Obama's recent successes on the foreign policy front and the scattershot criticism offered by his Republican challengers.

ROME - In his narrowest escape yet, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi barely survived a confidence vote on Friday, saving his government from collapse but effectively preventing it from legislating.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday that at midnight Brookfield Office Properties -- the real-estate firm that owns Zuccotti Park

Unmoved by that fact, Mathis and Kelce approached the fans and asked them to remove the banner. The players have said that they did not threaten the fans; they merely asked them to take the sign down, and the fans complied. From that point on, Mathis and Kelce have been hammered non-stop on Philly talk radio, which is one environment in which an excuse to bash everything in sight is usually not needed. When something is served up like the hanging slider the two Eagles pitched, all bets are off.

Daisey, a monologuist in the vein of Spalding Gray and a recovering "Apple fanboy," hasn't upgraded his phone since flying to China to investigate how those smooth, beautifully designed hand-held gizmos are made.

Mr. Mak's design of a silhouetted profile of Mr. Jobs in the Apple company logo was shared across the Web and reported by news media. The actor Ashton Kutcher posted the design on his Twitter account.

FBI makes arrest after Johansson, Aguilera e-mails hacked From Michael Martinez, CNN

Gadhafi son reported captured

SEAL BEACH, California (AP) - A shooting at a hair salon in a normally sedate California beach community Wednesday left six people dead and three wounded, authorities said.

Apple's new mobile operating system is finally nigh and imminent. Apple fans have been eagerly awaiting iOS 5 since it was announced in June. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed an October 12 release date for iOS 5, at the same time that he revealed the iPhone 4S. Apple mobile devices like the iPad and iPhone are eligible to upgrade to a brave new world of cloud computing, with exciting new notification features and money-saving messaging.

A government informant posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel in Mexico helped foil an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States on A