He’s supposed to help you get rid of all the creepy crawly things around your house. But watch out: You might wind up with more problems than you started out with — and not all of them will have six legs. 1. “Your bugs will come back — but we …

WASHINGTON – The government may have to radically change the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the agency that proved unprepared to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday. Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, which battered Gulf Coast states over an eight-week period, stretched the agency “beyond …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from January 28, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. TED KENNEDY, D-MASS.: I love this country! I believe in the bright light of hope and possibility. I …

NASSAU, Bahamas – A former companion of Anna Nicole Smith said Wednesday that her attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern took several photographs of the collapsed body of her late 20-year-old son for profit. G. Ben Thompson, a South Carolina developer, testified that Stern took about four pictures of Daniel Smith’s body …

NEW YORK – He pleaded guilty more than five years ago to plotting bomb attacks on American embassies, but the case against Al Qaeda member Mohammed Mansour Jabarah has been shrouded in secrecy until now. Jabarah was to emerge from the shadows Friday to be sentenced, likely to life in …

CHENGDU, China – A powerful earthquake toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants Monday in central China, killing about 10,000 people and trapping untold numbers in mounds of concrete, steel and earth in the country’s worst quake in three decades. The 7.9-magnitude quake devastated a region of small cities and towns …

Beset by scandals surrounding the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has decided to tighten the reins on anti-corruption and ethics investigations across his sprawling organization — even while trying to keep those investigation results from the general public. The decision by Ban marks a major reversal …

One group claims that six dietary supplements sold by Herbalife Ltd. contain high levels of lead if taken as directed, Reuters is reporting. The Fraud Discovery Institute posted a letter on its Web site claiming that the supplements in question contain levels of lead that are dangerous and in excess …

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A police search warrant says blood was found inside a Charlotte insurance agency that belongs to a man charged in the death of a state insurance investigator. The warrant released Tuesday said 40-year-old Michael Howell of Indian Trail initially allowed Charlotte-Mecklenburg police to search his Dilworth Insurance …

NEW YORK – Yoko Ono wants a judge to imagine a movie challenging the theory of evolution — but without John Lennon’s song “Imagine” in it. The film’s distributors are fighting to keep it in — and are urging the judge to act quickly so the movie can yet play …