BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Police arrested two Belfast men Friday on suspicion of involvement in this week’s attempted assassination of a prominent member of an outlawed Protestant group, the Ulster Volunteer Force. Mark Haddock, 36, was shot several times at close range Tuesday as he met other Protestant militants on …

NEW YORK – Francisco Costa, Thom Browne and Tom Binns are the top fashion designers of the year, taking home the big prizes at Monday night’s Council of Fashion Designers of America awards. Costa was named womenswear designer of the year three years after taking over creative duties at Calvin …

SACRAMENTO, California – Famed pilot Chuck Yeager is accusing his children in federal court of diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from his pension fund. The lawsuit filed Thursday is the latest legal dispute between Yeager, 83, the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound, and his …

LOS ANGELES – The date 06/06/06 didn’t scare people away from attending a scary movie. The remake of “The Omen” opened to the largest Tuesday opening in motion picture history. Twentieth Century Fox says the thriller took in $12.6 million. The movie company had planned the unusual Tuesday opening to …

NEW YORK – Wall Street finished its worst week of the year with a moderate decline Friday as persistent unease over inflation and interest rates kept investors nervous about buying. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Investing page. The Dow slid 46.90, or 0.43 percent, to 10,891.92, after having been up …

BAGHRAN VALLEY, Afghanistan – U.S. troops took positions atop a mountain ridge in southern Afghanistan on Sunday to cut off key transport routes as part of a major anti-Taliban offensive that has killed scores of suspected militants in recent days. For the first time in several years, coalition soldiers ventured …

WASHINGTON – Facing scathing criticism over reduced anti-terror grants for Washington, D.C., and New York City, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Thursday defended his department’s handling of the funding saying the program is designed to avoid political influence in favor of reducing the threat of terrorism. “I would hate …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” June 27, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Berkeley, California. It’s known as a hotbed of liberalism, and Tuesday night the city council is taking up a proposed ballot initiative, one that calls for …

50 Cent‘s controversial music and image has attracted a great deal of media attention, as have his conflicts with numerous groups and artists. Rarely has one individual concurrently garnered quite so much popularity and controversy. Curtis James Jackson III (also known as Fitty) was born on July 6, 1975, in …

WARSAW, Poland – A U.S.-trained economist became Poland’s new finance minister Friday, assuring he would follow the pro-market policies of his predecessor, but could push for more reforms in public spending and taxes. Pawel Wojciechowski, 46, who has served for the past half-year as Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz’s financial adviser, …