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>Journal of the American Medical Association which shows the rate of heart disease deaths has been slowly declining for 30 years. That may have more to do with better medical treatments than with healthier lifestyles.

in the contest over which party will control the next U.S. Congress. Democrats are targeting four of the seven House seats currently held by Republicans. And the incumbents in at least three of them are considered vulnerable.

Turkey's government and Kurdish separatists. The 12-year-old war has killed more than 20,000 people and displaced millions. The European community is withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in aid because of Turkey's human rights abuses.

two years after a U-S-led multi-national force restored democratic government to the island nation. There has been some political violence in Port-au-Prince, but much less than before the intervention.

before Sunday's presidential election in Nicaragua. Former president and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega is running against the conservative former mayor of Managua Arnoldo Aleman. Experts consider the outcome too close to call.

Renewed clashes between the rival Kurdish factions have broken out in northern Iraq. The Saddam Hussein-backed Kurdistan Democratic Party has captured two towns from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

, John Burnett looks on a newly emerging alliance of Christian ministers, laypeople, civil libertarians, and discontented Republicans, who are trying to counteract the influence of the Religious Right.

a new method for accessing the Internet. The new wireless system will be a major benefit to schools, hospitals and businesses. The FCC set aside a large portion of the radio spectrum, dedicated to letting computers communicate with each other over the airwaves.

, a bill that would give federal funds to faith-based organizations that provide drug and alcohol treatment. Supporters say these groups have better track records than secular programs, but critics say the bill violates the Constitution.

An environmental group’s new report shows a broad range of contaminants occur in many drinking water systems in the Ohio Valley, even though the water…