About 48 million viewers watched President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address on 11 networks, with Fox TV drawing the biggest share.
The Nielsen Co. said viewership for Wednesday's speech was 7 percent lower than for President George W. Bush's first such address in 2002 but 5 percent higher than for President Bill Clinton's inaugural State of the Union speech in 1994.
From 9-10 p.m. EST, more than 9.7 million people watched …
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Theodore Kaczynski plotted killings yearsbefore the first Unabomber attack and fantasized about victims"merely from my desire for revenge," federal prosecutors saidTuesday.
Kaczynski was driven not by his hatred of technology, as widelybelieved, but by his hatred of people, prosecutors said.
Kaczynski's court-appointed lawyers have described him asmentally ill.In a sentencing memorandum that quoted extensively fromKaczynski's writings, the government told U.S. District Judge GarlandBurrell Jr. that the former mathematics teacher was a mentally alert,brilliant, calculating killer who simply wanted to find victims.He was already writing about …
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica on Monday asked the Organization of American States to call an urgent meeting to address an alleged incursion by Nicaraguan troops onto Costa Rican soil.
Security Minister Jose Tijerino said more police had been sent to the northeastern border with Nicaragua after authorities detected Nicaraguan troops on Calero, an island in the San Juan River claimed by Costa Rica.
"The police will be properly equipped ... but we will avoid, as much as we can, a confrontation that will only aggravate the situation," Tijerina said.
The border river has been a source of disputes between the Central American neighbors for nearly two centuries. Last …
Dozens of biologists and environmental activists rescued two freshwater dolphins Sunday among nine that have been trapped in a river by low water levels for more than a month.
The two dolphins were caught in nets and brought to shore. They were put in padded, water-filled aluminum containers and driven on all-terrain vehicles about two miles downstream, where they were put in a pen in deeper water.
"This first rescue operation succeeded in transferring two freshwater dolphins weighing between 30 and 40 kilos (66-88 pounds)," Rodrigo Quintana, an …
It's the summer of the sellout. We've all learned that there's notmuch a person won't do for money.
And I'm not just talking about the Who licensing theme music toNissan. Or Halle Berry taking her top off in "Swordfish" for areported $500,000. Or Carole King hawking denim in Gap ads. Or JamieLee Curtis putting her face on liquor billboards in Italy, despiteher history of substance abuse.
It's not just them. It's us, too. We're all trying to cash in,whether or not we have actual cachet. Early in the season, we readabout the New Jersey high school seniors who decided to fund theircollege tuition through corporate sponsorship.
Since then, a Web site has been …
NEW YORK - Wall Street was narrowly mixed Wednesday as investors tried to gauge Americans' buying power going into the holiday shopping season following a report showing a drop in consumer confidence.
The dip in the University of Michigan's survey of consumer sentiment, as well as a government report showing jobless claims rising, dampened some investor enthusiasm over declining oil prices and strong earnings from Dell Inc.
Earlier Wednesday, the U.S. government reported that crude and gasoline inventories rose, which sent energy prices falling. The question on investors' minds is whether lower fuel prices are enough to encourage consumer spending, which accounts for …
The heat is off Juergen Klinsmann for the time being _ the Bayern Munich coach can afford to field some rarely used players when his team takes a 5-0 lead into the Champions League second-leg match against Sporting Lisbon.
Although Klinsmann has been cautioning his players to take Tuesday's round-of-16 match at Allianz Arena seriously, it would be amazing if Bayern did not make the quarterfinals. No team has ever squandered such a lead in the Champions League.
"It looks on paper as if it were a formality, but it is not so, it's not a given," Klinsmann said. "We have to take it seriously and we can't afford to be careless."
The …
