WASHINGTON – Boston will host the 2004 Democratic National Convention, edging out New York and two other cities as Democrats prepare to challenge President Bush’s expected re-election bid. The decision by the Democratic Party means that its members will gather in one of the nation’s most liberal states to nominate …

State: Georgia Party: Republican Candidate: U.S. House of Representatives Current Office: Representative (R-GA 10th) Born: 7/27/1941, Valdosta, GA Religion: Methodist Marital Status: Married, Gloria Education: DDS Georgetown Univ., 1967 Previous Political Experience: No prior elected office Campaign Web Site: http://www.norwoodforcongress.com Click here for the Fox News Election Map

SAN FRANCISCO – Jury selection in the first criminal prosecution for alleged violations of U.S. digital copyright law will start Monday in a Silicon Valley court, an attorney in the case said Friday. The closely watched case pits Russian software vendor ElcomSoft against federal prosecutors, who charge the Moscow-based firm …

NEW YORK – CBS hoped that the release of an independent probe of its ill-fated story on President Bush’s military service, painful as it was, would at least lift the cloud over its news division. If only it were that simple. The report, and the network’s response to it, left …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – For the first time in more than 50 years, Iraqis cast ballots in democratic elections Sunday and took the first steps to declaring how they wanted Iraq to be governed. As estimated 8 million people — 60 percent of eligible voters — braved violence and calls for …

DALLAS – Kimberly-Clark Corp. (KMB), the paper products company that makes Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers (search), said Monday its fourth-quarter profit fell 3 percent as tough competition dragged down prices of diapers and trainings pants. But the results beat Wall Street’s expectations and the company also plans to boost …

KOBE, Japan – With multiple nations putting forward projects for a tsunami-warning system, the United Nations (search) said Wednesday it should set up the system and extend it globally, but the United States voiced doubts about the U.N. ability to run such a program. The Asian tsunami (search) disaster demonstrated …

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Rolling Stone magazine declined to run an advertisement for a new translation of the Bible aimed at young people, the nation’s largest Bible publisher said Wednesday. Zondervan (search), a division of HarperCollins Publishers, bought space in the magazine months ago as part of an ad campaign …

PORTAGE, Wis. – A rural Poynette teenager put mouse poison into food and beverages that his family ate and drank for weeks to “make them sick because he was mad at them,” according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday. Jamie Auck, 15, was charged in Columbia County Circuit Court (search) …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Chinese jetliners touched down in Taiwan on Saturday, completing the first nonstop flights between the rivals since a bloody civil war split the two sides 56 years ago. A pilot smiled and waved from his cockpit window after landing his China Southern Airlines (search) plane, which took …