WASHINGTON – Delivering a strong triumph to President Bush, the Senate voted decisively Tuesday to create a Homeland Security Department, setting the stage for the biggest government reshuffling in a half-century as a way to thwart and respond to terrorist attacks. “It is landmark in its scope and it ends …

State: Hawaii Party: Democrat Candidate: U.S. House of Representatives Current Office: Representative (D-HI 1st) Born: 6/26/1938, Buffalo, NY Religion: NS Marital Status: Married, Nancie Caraway Education: PhD Univ. of HI, 1974 Previous Political Experience: HI House, 1974-78; HI Senate, 1978-86; US House, 1986-87; Honolulu City Council, 1988-90 Campaign Web Site: …

WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Al Gore blasted the media Wednesday in a lengthy New York Observer interview, saying that the mainstreampress has no mechanism to bring back Americans brainwashed by conservative outlets. “The media is kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices …

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Newly released court transcripts in the shoplifting trial of Winona Ryder revealed the actress was suspected of stealing from two other high-end department stores before her arrest at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Ryder was never charged in the alleged incidents at Barneys in New …

Celebrities were doing last minute primping as they prepared to walk the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards (search) on Sunday. Jamie Foxx (search) led the contenders with an unprecedented three acting nominations, including best musical or comedy actor for his uncanny portrayal of singer Ray Charles in “Ray.” …

CORONA, Calif. – Authorities released a fierce, brown river of water from a Southern California dam and evacuated 2,300 people from its path Friday after a temporary earthen barrier at the site began seeping water. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (search) unleashed more than 10,000 cubic feet of water …

NEW YORK – Oracle Corp. (ORCL), the world’s second-largest business software maker, on Wednesday forecast 2005 and 2006 earnings above Wall Street estimates, helped by its $10.3 billion acquisition of PeopleSoft (search). The outlook, which Oracle released hours before it kicks off its analyst day in New York, drove the …

A highly sensitive new test could lead to a different way to diagnose people with Alzheimer’s disease (search), possibly helping find the illness in its early stages when there might be time for treatment. While as many as 4 million Americans are thought to suffer from the memory-destroying illness, the …

WASHINGTON – Trying to make their mark on President Bush’s strategy in Iraq, Senate Democrats extracted a promise from Condoleezza Rice (search) to level with them when she takes over as secretary of state. Rice seemed agreeable, to a point. “We can certainly have, I think, a healthy debate about …

NEW YORK – Paul Volcker (search), the man tapped by the United Nations to lead a probe into the troubled Oil-for-Food program, has potentially too-close-for-comfort ties to companies he’s supposed to be investigating, FOX News had learned. While few, if any, are questioning the integrity of the man heading the …