NEW YORK – The Bush administration insists its relationship with Saudi Arabia is good, but concerns swirling this week are giving some people pause when it comes to taking the White House’s word. Experts cut to the chase when they criticized the White House, saying that the Bush administration needs …

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OTTAWA – Saying “America treasures its relationship with Canada,” Secretary of State Colin Powell promised Thursday that the United States would strive to keep Canadian citizens from being hassled or singled out when they cross the border. Powell flew here for a luncheon meeting with Foreign Minister Bill Graham and …

There’s something about northwestern New Mexico when it comes to underwear thieves. Last January, as reported in Out There, a 13-year-old boy was caught in Kirtland after a trail of ladies’ undergarments led from a broken-into store straight to his home. Nearly a year later, police in nearby Farmington announced …

GEORGETOWN, Del. – Walt Disney Co. (DIS) had “a lot of good reasons” to fire Michael Ovitz (search) from his job as president, but none of the reasons were good enough to justify a for-cause firing, an expert for the company’s board of directors testified Friday. The expert, California employment …

CHICAGO – McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) Friday said quarterly net profit more than tripled as its U.S. business improved further and signaled it might pursue a spinoff or other options for its Chipotle Mexican-style restaurant chain. Excluding one-time items, the results fell a penny short of Wall Street analysts’ average estimate, …

WASHINGTON – The NAACP (search), the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, is refusing to cooperate with an IRS investigation into an allegedly improper political speech, charging that the timing of the probe was itself politically motivated. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in October that the …

LONDON – Ben Kingsley (search) and his wife, Alexandra, have separated after 15 months of marriage, the actor’s publicist said Wednesday. “For some time now, Ben and Alexandra have been leading separate lives,” said a statement issued by Ildiko Nagy, Kingsley’s Los Angeles publicist. “The separation is very amicable, they …

The FDA has issued a public health advisory warning patients and doctors about the side effects of a common drug used to treat people infected with HIV. The drug, Viramune (search), may lead to liver damage or death in people with higher counts of immune system cells called CD4 cells. …

WASHINGTON – A fee charged to airline travelers to help pay for airport security would more than double under President Bush’s spending proposal for the Homeland Security Department (search). Bush’s plan calls for boosting the security fee from $2.50 to $5.50 for a one-way airline ticket and from a maximum …