GLASLOUGH, Ireland – An international media horde gathered Thursday at a remote Irish castle hotel, where the owner announced that Paul McCartney and his fiancee, Heather Mills, would have their wedding reception next week. “We are told vaguely it is next Tuesday, but it is all secret. I have to …

DETROIT – General Motors Corp. (GM)said on Monday that it raised its earnings outlook due to continued cost-cutting and the strong sales outlook for the year, despite reporting a 12 percent drop in its May U.S. vehicle sales. GM, the world’s largest automaker, said it expects second quarter earnings of …

This partial transcript fromHannity & Colmes,June 24, 2002 was provided by the Federal Document Clearing House. Click here to order last night’s entire transcript. ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Welcome to HANNITY & COLMES. I’m Alan Colmes. COLMES: First, our top story, a handyman who worked at the Smart house has been …

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – North Carolina Sen. John Edwards proposed major education reforms to improve school and teacher quality and to make higher education more accessible and affordable, in a speech Thursday at the University of Maryland. Edwards, a top contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004, said …

NEW YORK – Baz Luhrmann is upfront about the challenge: “Bringing Italian opera to Broadway is not the easiest way to have a hit,” he says with a laugh. “I’m used to it. Everything I’ve ever made has been an enormous risk — with people saying, ‘Are you crazy?’ I’m …

Americans credit President Bush’s popularity and his handling of what to do about Iraq as chief reasons for Republican success in the midterm elections, a poll indicates. When given a list of factors in the election and asked which were major reasons for the GOP’s success, those questioned in a …

This is a partial transcript from The Beltway Boys, November 23, that has been edited for clarity. Clickhereto order the complete transcript. Watch The Beltway Boys Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. ET FRED BARNES, CO-HOST: It’s time now for Mort to take on …

SAN’A, Yemen – U.S. fighter jets have patrolled Yemen’s northern border with Saudi Arabia as Yemeni forces hunt for Al Qaeda operatives, a security official said Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. jets were patrolling the border provinces of Marib and Jawf, strongholds of Muslim militants …

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police on Sunday found video recordings of speeches by Usama bin Laden and other extremist Islamic propaganda at two houses once rented by the alleged mastermind of last month’s bombings in Bali. The discovery appeared to strengthen growing suspicions that Islamic radicals sympathetic to bin Laden’s …

The following is the Iraqi letter to the U.N., translated by the Iraqi government and distributed at the press center in Baghdad. “In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful “Go thou to Pharaoh, for he has indeed transgressed all bounds. But speak to him mildly; perchance he may …