Associated Press Wire

Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views
NEW YORK (AP) -- The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday....

SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men....

RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights....

Victim ID'd in fatal NYC subway seat stabbing
NEW YORK (AP) -- A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn....

Attorney: Jackson's doctor returning to work
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Michael Jackson's former personal physician is returning to work at his Houston clinic for the first time since before the pop singer's death, his lawyer said Sunday....

Demonstration at UC Santa Cruz ends peacefully
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) -- Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest....

Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently....

Holidays will again test NYC air travel bottleneck
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fewer people are expected to fly this holiday season, but travelers shouldn't expect a full reprieve from the horrid flight delays of Thanksgivings past, especially if they need to land anywhere near New York City....

Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health care debate Sunday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast cancer screenings....

Astronauts get set for spacewalk No. 3
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- It's another spacewalking day for the crew of space shuttle Atlantis....