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TAUNTON, MAss. – Schools and businesses were closed for a second day and thousands of residents still couldn’t go home Wednesday as a weakened timber dam threatened to give way and spill a 6-foot surge of water into downtown Taunton (search). The danger may not end even if crews safely …

MONTCLAIR, Calif. – In a confrontation reminiscent of the Wild West, police shot and wounded a man who allegedly took over a freight train with a bow and arrow. Juventino Vallejo-Camerena (search) boarded the Union Pacific (search) train Sunday night as it was stopped for a signal and threatened the …

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia – A chat with a Buddhist monk. An encounter with a gift horse named Montana. A peek inside a yurt, the traditional felt tent home. A word with Mongolian veterans of the war in Iraq. No outpost is too distant, no audience too small for U.S. Defense …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A roadside bomb struck a car being driven by a police colonel in northern Iraq (search) on Sunday, killing him and his two sons as well as two young girls nearby, and insurgents killed more than 15 other Iraqis in shootings, bombings and suicide attacks. Five U.S. …

WAVELAND, Miss. – The Mississippi town of Waveland (search) is one of the most devastated places in the Gulf Coast. Just about everything is gone. With nothing left and nowhere to go, Waveland’s survivors picked through piles of donated clothing. No one was surprised to see kids roaming around in …

LONDON – Two authors are taking Dan Brown (search)’s publisher to court in Britain over claims that his best-selling book, “The DaVinci Code,” features stolen ideas. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh are suing publisher Random House, claiming that Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” (search) lifts ideas from their 1982 nonfiction …

WASHINGTON – President Bush’s decision to make White House counsel Harriet Miers (search) his second Supreme Court nominee upset Hispanic groups that had hoped to see the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. “President Bush has again ignored highly qualified Latino judges, attorneys and law professors who could serve the …

Watch “Hannity & Colmes” weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! Wednesday, October 12: Harriet Miers is President Bush’s latest Supreme Court nominee but did other candidates withdraw their names from consideration for the high court? That’s what Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson says! We’ll discuss it with former …

WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) told Pakistan’s ambassador on Friday that “we want to help in any way we can” after last week’s South Asia earthquake that is estimated to have killed more than 35,000 people in Pakistan. Bush visited Pakistan’s Embassy to sign a book of condolences and meet …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Monday it would restrict the amount of purchases federal employees can charge on their government-issued credit cards for hurricane-related expenses, saying the new $250,000 purchase limit was too high. The Office of Management and Budget (search) issued new guidelines that effectively reduced the purchase …