LONDON – London’s mayor can keep doing his job while a court decides whether he deserves a four-week suspension for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard, a judge ruled Tuesday. Mayor Ken Livingstone, meanwhile, blamed Britain’s main Jewish group for initiating his legal troubles because it …

NEW YORK – Scott Stapp, former lead singer of Creed, has married former Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat, People magazine reports on its Web site. The couple exchanged vows Friday night at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, an estate on the waterfront of Biscayne Bay in Miami, the magazine reports. …

Olympics fever is catching on around the world with new phrases like “halfpipe,” “cross” and “Flying Tomato” beginning to flavor our conversations. But even as we’re glued to our TV sets for the Winter Olympics in Torino, I say it’s time to pay attention to another engaging event that we …

WASHINGTON – Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is indicating he is ready to reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support. Brown’s stance, in a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, follows senators’ complaints …

Here’s the attack I’m now getting from administration supporters and other Republicans who are rallying behind the Dubai ports deal. This is a business deal, they’re saying. Just an ordinary business deal to push the paper and the steel boxes that come through ports. As a business deal it’s just …

WASHINGTON – An extensive investigation of embattled Fannie Mae (FNM) points to its former finance chief and controller as mainly responsible for the accounting failures at the mortgage giant now struggling to emerge from an $11 billion scandal, said a report released Thursday. The report by a team of investigators …

CASTAIC, Calif. – Nearly 2,000 inmates rioted at a Southern California jail, throwing mattresses and banging heads against bunk beds, in an uproar that officials said stemmed from racial tensions. One inmate was killed. County detention centers remain in a lockdown as interviews continue with hundreds of inmates and witnesses …

With oil prices at or near an all-time high in recent weeks and little relief in sight, small businesses are beginning to feel sharp pains at the pump. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s NEW Small Business page. The national average for retail gasoline now stands at $2.92 per gallon, up …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Students were encouraged to return to North Pole Middle School Monday with the assurance that police would patrol the halls following the weekend arrest of six seventh-graders suspected of plotting a deadly attack. Nine other seventh-graders also were suspended in possible connection with the elaborate scheme to …

WASHINGTON – The United States should delay “for some time” any U.N. Security Council action on Iran and talk directly to Tehran about its security concerns, a leading German legislator said Monday. “We have time to be patient,” Ruprecht Polenz, chairman of the international relations committee of the German Bundestag, …