NEW YORK – AnInternet worm that takes advantage of a known flaw with theWindows (search)operating system raced around the world Monday, snarling tens of thousands of computers and causing Internet traffic to slow. Though Microsoft Corp. had announced the flaw with the so-calledLocal Security Authority Subsystem Service (search)last month, many …
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LOS ANGELES – Aggravating, time consuming, and expensive — spam, cyberspeak for junk mail, has gotten so bad that many computers are virtually unusable. “This is totally illegal and something needs to be done about it,” said Peter Chambers ofAffinity Web Services (search). Last year, President Bush signed a law …
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MIAMI – A senior U.S. official confirmed to FOX News that the severed fingers of five Western hostages were delivered to U.S. government officials in Iraq, giving the men’s relatives hope that they are still alive. The Austrian weekly magazine News first reported the delivery of the five fingers in …
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Jeremy Lusk, an American freestyle motocross racer, died of head injuries on Tuesday after crashing while trying to land a backflip in competition. He was 24. Jorge Ramirez, chief of the intensive care unit at Calderon Hospital where Lusk was put into a medicine-induced coma, …
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COATESVILLE, Pa. – A 19-year-old described as a pyromaniac who liked to watch things burn was charged Thursday with setting nine fires in an arson-plagued steel town, including a block-long blaze that displaced dozens of people last month. Roger Leon Barlow Jr., an automotive technical student from nearby Downingtown, was …
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This is a rush transcript from “The Journal Editorial Report,” February 8, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. PAUL GIGOT, HOST: Up next on the “Journal Editorial Report,” Obama hits turbulence. Will the Daschle withdrawal and his left turn on stimulus take …
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This is a rush transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, January 31, 2009, that has been edited for clarity. MORT KONDRACKE, CO-FOX HOST: Coming up on “The Beltway Boys,” President Obama fails in his first big test of bipartisanship on the economic stimulus plan. We’ll tell you where he needs to …
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Healthier living could prevent about a third of the most common cancers in rich countries and about a quarter in poorer ones, international researchers said on Thursday. Better diets, more exercise and controlling weight could also prevent more than 40 percent of colon and breast cancer cases in some countries, …
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky high school football coach on Monday pleaded not guilty to reckless homicide in the heat-related death of a 15-year-old player who collapsed while running sprints at a sweltering August practice. David Jason Stinson was released without having to post bond following his arraignment. A grand …
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NEW YORK – A delivery van hit a group of children walking from a library back to their day care center in the city’s busy Chinatown district Thursday, killing two and seriously injuring a third, authorities said. Bellevue Hospital treated 14 of the children for minor injuries, according to spokesman …
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