WASHINGTON – President Bush, warning that “the enemy wants to attack us again,” called on Congress Friday to give U.S. intelligence agencies “the tools needed” to interrogate and try suspected terrorists for war crimes. “Time is running out. Congress needs to act wisely and promptly,” Bush said at a press …

HONOLULU – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje of the hit TV series “Lost” was arrested on a traffic violation in Waikiki this weekend, police said. The 39-year-old actor, who plays Mr. Eko on the ABC drama, was arrested early Saturday for disobeying a police officer and driving without a license. He posted $500 …

QUITO, Ecuador – Leftist economist Rafael Correa, in a tight race to win Sunday’s presidential runoff, criticized President Bush Thursday for the Iraq invasion and claimed his policies led to the Republicans’ congressional defeat. “The American people have been the first to speak their minds in an overwhelming fashion on …

SHELBYVILLE, Ind. – Edna Parker, who became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago, has died at age 115. UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles said Parker’s great-nephew notified him that Parker died Wednesday at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She was 115 years, 220 days old, said Robert …

WASHINGTON – The Interior Department moved closer Wednesday to opening waters off Virginia to oil and gas drilling, although the offshore development plans could be scrapped by the next administration under President-elect Obama. Interior’s Minerals Management Service gave notice that it is conducting a formal examination of the environmental impact …

SALEM, Ore. – The father of a Salem man accused of killing two Oregon law enforcement officers in a bank explosion was arrested Tuesday on bomb-making conspiracy charges, authorities said. Bruce Turnidge, 57, faces charges of conspiracy to manufacture and possess an explosive device, the Marion County district attorney’s office …

SALEM, Ore. – Authorities found bomb-making material at the rural home of a man accused along with his son of killing two law enforcement officers in an explosion at a bank, a court document released Thursday says. Some of the material found at Bruce Turnidge’s home matched that used in …

CHICAGO – Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver’s license to 17 or even 18. Adrian Lund, president of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group funded by …

SULTAN ZAWYIT, Egypt – In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters. A year ago, she had few qualms about female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting a girl’s clitoris and sometimes other genitalia. She herself was cut …

FLORENCE, Ariz. – A sport utility vehicle packed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled over Thursday on a rural highway southwest of Phoenix, killing at least nine people, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Nineteen people were in the SUV that rolled on State Route 79, about 15 miles …