MILWAUKEE – The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle sexual abuse claims involving 10 victims in California and a priest the archdiocese had transferred there, church officials said Friday. Half the settlement will come from insurance, the archdiocese said. The deal was reached …

LAPD detective notes from a search warrant in the Chris Brown case, obtained exclusively by FOX 11 in Los Angeles, detail a horrific assault in the early morning hours of Feb. 8, the day Brown and girlfriend Rihanna were scheduled to perform for the Grammy Awards. According to FOX 11, …

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court sided with eBay (EBAY) in a patent fight over a selling feature Monday, in a ruling that will make it easier for high-tech companies to avoid court injunctions in such disputes. Justices, in a unanimous opinion, said that judges have flexibility before they impose court …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Tuesday it had broken off negotiations on a free trade agreement with Ecuador following the South American government’s decision to annul an operating contract with Occidental Petroleum Corp. “We are very disappointed at the decision of Ecuador, which appears to constitute a seizure of …

WASHINGTON – Meetings at the White House and Capitol Hill highlight a visit by Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a leftist who is nonetheless widely admired here as a pro-democracy stalwart. After a luncheon meeting with President Bush on Thursday, Bachelet planned to make the rounds of Capitol Hill for discussions …

WASHINGTON – Everyone has known New Orleans is a sinking city. Now new research suggests parts of the city are sinking even faster than many scientists imagined — more than an inch a year. That may explain some of the levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and it raises more worries …

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban do not pose a long-term threat to Afghanistan‘s stability, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. Karzai spoke after the release of an audio recording purportedly of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar saying the Afghan government did not have the wisdom to solve the nation’s crisis. A …

ATLANTA – Last-minute business travelers and some first-class fliers will pay more this summer for domestic tickets on some of the major airlines. Some fares at the major airlines have been creeping up in recent months largely because of persistently high fuel prices. Delta Air Lines Inc., the nation’s third-largest …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two bombs aimed at police patrols exploded Saturday in Baghdad as a series of attacks killed at least 24 people nationwide on Saturday, while insurgent groups offered condolences for the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and warned they would continue his campaign of violence. The first explosion …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s president lashed out Wednesday at the United States and vowed to resist the pressure of “bully countries” as European nations circulated a draft resolution urging that Tehran be brought before the U.N. Security Council for its nuclear activities. In a speech to thousands of supporters hours …