NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday sought to attack the credibility of a Pakistani immigrant accused in a subway bombing plot, suggesting he was an angry young man who was prone to violence. Shahawar Matin Siraj, 23, testified Monday that he never had a violent thought before he met …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A Gaza security chief loyal to moderate President Mahmoud Abbas was killed when his car blew up Wednesday, the second attack on security commanders in the volatile area in less than a week. It was not immediately clear who planted the bomb that killed Nabil …

LOS ANGELES – A former FBI agent pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge in connection with a Chinese spying investigation. Denise K. Woo, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of disclosing confidential information. Prosecutors agreed to drop five felony counts of disclosing a wiretap, revealing the …

A host of risky behaviors is less common in today’s high school students than in those 15 years earlier, according to a new CDC report. The CDC published its 2005 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Study in a special issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The survey has …

NEW YORK – New Yorkers are a polite bunch. No, really, they are. So says Reader’s Digest. The magazine sent reporters “undercover” to 36 cities, in 35 countries, to measure courtesy. New York was the only American city on the list. In a city with a reputation for being in-your-face, …

NEW YORK – A widely watched gauge of economic activity slipped by 0.6 percent in May, the Conference Board said Thursday, suggesting that the nation’s economy could weaken in coming months. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Economy page. The Conference Board, an industry-backed research group, said its Index of Leading …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said that gays can qualify as foster parents and barring them from parenting foster children was based on one group’s views on morality. In upholding a lower court decision that a state ban was unconstitutional, the high court said that …

NEW YORK – The state’s redevelopment agency signed off Friday on a scaled-back Sept. 11 memorial with a list of victims’ names to be displayed at street level and less underground space for a museum. The board of the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. moved forward with a developer’s proposal to …

UNITED NATIONS – First Lady Laura Bush told a major AIDS conference Friday that more people must understand how the deadly virus is transmitted, and called on countries to improve literacy so their citizens can make better choices. In a short speech to the U.N. General Assembly High-Level Meeting on …

LONDON – Key Syrian opposition figures on Monday urged Syrians to work to oust President Bashar Assad by using acts of civil disobedience reminiscent to the upheaval that freed nations behind the Iron Curtain. Describing Assad’s regime as oppressive and corrupt, the leaders pledged to bring democracy to Syria, which …