U.S. News and World Report has published its 2006 list of America’s best hospitals. Fourteen hospitals made the magazine’s honor roll, with Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md., in the top spot. Here’s the magazine’s honor roll: 1. JohnsHopkins Hospital (Baltimore, Md.) 2. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) 3. The Cleveland Clinic …

MADRID, Spain – A helicopter crashed Saturday into the sea off the northeastern coast of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing all six people on board, the Interior Ministry said. A fisherman reported the crash Saturday morning, about 2.5 miles off the heavily wooded coast of Anaga, ministry official Jose …

HARTFORD, Conn. – Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman is enlisting help in his re-election campaign from former President Clinton, the man he criticized in 1998 for “disgraceful behavior” in a sex scandal with a White House intern. Clinton and Lieberman are scheduled to campaign together in Connecticut on Monday as the …

WEST NEW YORK, N.J. – Authorities on Thursday were trying to determine whether the body of a young woman found in a trash bin might be that of an 18-year-old Harrington Park woman who went missing after a night of drinking with a friend in Manhattan. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” July 12, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. BILL O’REILLY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: In the “Unresolved Problem” segment tonight: Keeping control of the nation’s schools. According to a University of Michigan study, about half of all high school seniors say …

People considering sharing their liver with an ailing relative or friend can worry a bit less, say doctors who found that living donor liver-transplantation is relatively safe. The largest North American study to date to look at how people who donate part of their livers fare after the procedure shows …

CAIRO, Egypt – The head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church on Saturday became the first top Christian leader to join the Muslim world in denouncing comments made by Pope Benedict XVI‘s about Islam and jihad, as religious and political leaders warned of impending sectarian violence despite the Vatican’s insistence that …

NEW YORK – Katie Couric led the “CBS Evening News” to its first weekly ratings win in more than five years but her honeymoon may be short — she slipped to third place on Monday. Couric’s first evening-news broadcast last Tuesday brought in nearly 13.6 million curious viewers. The numbers …

GENEVA – The U.S. government has failed to eradicate the most abject forms of poverty in the United States, which disproportionately plague blacks and Hispanics, a U.N. human rights expert said Wednesday. Arjun Sengupta, an Indian professor and U.N. expert on extreme poverty, said the United States could reduce the …

MOSCOW – Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed president proposed renaming the war-torn region in southern Russia, saying its current name has a negative connotation and is actually a foreign term, Russian news agencies reported Monday. Alu Alkhanov said he had instructed the region’s information and press minister to begin meeting with experts and …