NEW YORK – Kanye West will receive the Artist Achievement Award at the 2005 Billboard Music Awards, which will be presented Dec. 6 in Las Vegas. Past recipients of the award, which recognizes both artistic excellence and Billboard chart success, include Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Garth Brooks, Aerosmith, Janet …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein’s trial and wounded another attorney Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said. Adel al-Zubeidi, who was representing former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, was shot to …

An IBM-built computer that has topped the list of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers has widened its lead in the latest ranking released Monday. The computer named Blue Gene/L, deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has doubled its performance to 280.6 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), up from 136.8 …

BAGHDAD – Al Qaeda (search) in Iraq claimed Thursday to have shot down a U.S. attack helicopter that crashed near Ramadi, killing two Marines aboard, and residents buried dead from what they said was a subsequent U.S. airstrike nearby. Boys stood Thursday beside the wreckage of an AH-1W Super Cobra …

Watch “Hannity & Colmes” weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! Nov. 3: Former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby pleaded not guilty before a federal judge in Washington, D.C. today and waived his right to a fair trial relating to the leak of a covert CIA operative’s identity. As Libby entered …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” November 15, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Factor Investigation” segment tonight, how America’s largest department stores …

TONGZHOU, China – Two men in masks and protective suits guarded the border between Beijing (search) and Hebei province, watching for vehicles transporting live poultry under anti-bird flu measures announced Monday to protect the capital. Only shipments of live chickens, ducks and geese from three certified Hebei farms are allowed …

This is a partial transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from Nov. 14, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. BRIT HUME, HOST: President Bush headed off to Asia Monday morning for talks with U.S. allies and others while avian flu and the Iraq War will be part of …

WASHINGTON – President Bush met with a bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders on Tuesday to determine support for offering incentives to Iran (search) to get that nation to give up its nuclear weapons program. The meeting on Iran’s uranium enrichment (search) process occurred as the International Atomic Energy …

This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” February 28, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: It’s been five days since a 9-year-old Florida girl vanished without a trace. Jessica Lunsford (search) has not been seen since her grandmother tucked her into bed on …