Balanced News Blog

An Iraqi government search of a detention center in Baghdad operated by Interior Ministry special commandos found 13 prisoners who had suffered abuse serious enough to require medical treatment, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday night.

The president of the American Red Cross, Marsha J. Evans, who oversaw the charity’s vast and sometimes maligned response to Hurricane Katrina, is resigning effective at the end of this month, the organization said Tuesday.

There’s no word on the fate of the crew on board a Navy helicopter that crashed today off the coast of Colombia.

Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, has been admitted to a California hospital for “unspecified tests,” according to CBS News.

DirecTV Inc. will pay $5.35 million to settle charges that its telemarketers called households listed on the national do-not-call registry to pitch satellite TV programming, Federal Trade Commission officials said Tuesday.

A joint Mexico-U.S. effort to build a monster telescope atop a dormant volcano southeast of Mexico City largely is funded by a U.S. Defense Department project aimed at developing technology for space defense systems.

Yahoo! announced a public beta of its real-time communications suite, Yahoo! Messenger with Voice for Singapore. Yahoo! Messenger with Voice now enables Web-based voice calling capabilities with low rates for making and receiving Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls around the world. People will be able to make PC to Phone calls by using their PC to call a traditional phone or mobile phone in Singapore and to 28 countries, for less than 3 cents per minute.

The drug runner and mechanic Bradley Murdoch was today jailed for life for the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio four years ago.

Authorities in San Diego raided 13 marijuana dispensaries on Monday in what is being described as an investigation into federal drug trafficking.