Family gathers to honor passing of Valley hero

Family gathers to honor passing of Valley hero
Monitor - 6 hours agoMISSION Former US Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen s career included economic and political successes that made him a national figure with Rio Grande Valley roots. He died Tuesday at his home in Houston at 85. ...

Health chiefs fear worst over family killed by bird flu
Times Online - 1 hour agoBy Sam Knight and agencies. World health chiefs said today that they were increasingly concerned about the bird flu deaths of six Indonesians from one family, raising fears of the first human-to-human transmission of the deadly H5N1 virus. ...

Officials Defend Raid on Lawmaker's Office
Washington Post - 9 hours agoJustice Department and FBI officials yesterday vigorously defended a weekend raid on the Capitol Hill office of Democratic Rep. William J. Jefferson (La.), arguing that the unprecedented tactic was necessary ...

Bin Laden denies Moussaoui had 9/11 link
The Age - 8 hours agoOsama bin Laden says that neither Zacarias Moussaoui - the only person convicted in the US for the September 11 attacks - nor anyone held at Guantanamo had anything to do with his al-Qaeda operation. "He had ...

Huge fire breaks out at Istanbul airport
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 20 minutes agoISTANBUL, Turkey -- A huge fire engulfed the cargo section of Istanbul's Ataturk International Airport on Wednesday, blocking air traffic and causing hundreds of panicked people to flee, television reports said. ...

Note From Elizabeth Vargas on Changes to 'World News Tonight'
ABC News - 2 hours agoFind out which oil producers profit as you pay more at the pump, as our series "The Producers" begins. May 23, 2006 Elizabeth Vargas closed tonight's "World News Tonight" broadcast with a note on the changes at the anchor desk. ...