Women treated for breast cancer may be able to lessen the odds of a recurrence by cutting fat from their diets, according to a new, large study. The findings come as good news to researchers, because a far larger study released earlier this year found such a slight difference in risk in women trimming the fat that it might have been due to chance alone.
Colin Powell's break with the administration's Iraq policy is more evidence of the rift between the Bush team and members of the Republican establishment in Washington. Powell, who was Bush's first-term secretary of state and served in senior positions under Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, said yesterday that the United States is losing the Iraq conflict, which he described as a civil war (a term the White House declines to use).
AP - The chief U.S. negotiator said Tuesday there had been no progress yet at renewed six-nation talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms program in exchange for economic aid and security guarantees.
AP - First lady Laura Bush had a skin cancer tumor removed from her right shin in early November but decided it was a private matter and did not reveal it publicly.
New Orleans police lined up "like at a firing range" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN. "He just fell like he was collapsing," Kasimir Gaston said. Gaston is the first witness to come forward publicly to talk about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man.