LOS ANGELES – A judge refused to reduceMichael Jackson’s (search)$3 million bail on child molestation charges, citing the entertainer’s enormous wealth and a one-time alleged plan to take his accuser’s family to Brazil, according to a ruling made public Wednesday. “Defendant has the ability to hire private jets and has …

BOULDER, Colo. – The board that oversees theUniversity of Colorado (search)held a closed-door session Wednesday, and the jobs of four top officials could be on the line after a blistering report blamed lax oversight for afootball recruiting scandal (search). In its report released Tuesday, an investigative panel said there was …

NAJAF, Iraq – Attackers wounded two U.S. soldiers Friday and mortar shells rained down on the main American base inNajaf (search)— separate incidents that threatened the deal aimed at ending the bloody, seven-week standoff around this Shiite holy city. Masked gunmen of radical clericMuqtada al-Sadr’s (search)militia — some with knives …

Can the Oracle of Omaha help Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry win over Wall Street? We’ll ask Henry Aaron, economist with the Brookings Institute, and Tim Kane, research fellow with the Heritage Foundation. Major arrests in Turkey where an elaborate terror plot has been foiled. Who was the target? We’ll …

MOSCOW – Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president-elect, has preached freedom and the rule of law, and raised hopes for an end to government pressure on opposition leaders, rights advocates and businesses whose assets the Kremlin wants to control. But events of past weeks are adding to mounting suspicions that Medvedev’s presidency …

Staff Sgt. Scott Snyder and his wife, Angela, were sitting down in their Moline, Ill., living room to watch a war movie and eat some hot wings. A few minutes later, Snyder was screaming and begging Angela to admit to him something he knew for certain: that he was dead. …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Pulling Punches It’s “smart power” in action: You may remember that during the campaign, President Obama berated the Bush administration for ignoring growing threats in Pakistan and vowed to take the fight to the terrorists over there. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We’ve …

BERLIN – Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal, concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim, died in Cairo in 1992, Germany’s ZDF television and The New York Times reported. Wednesday’s reports said Heim, known as ‘Dr. Death,’ was living under a pseudonym and had converted to …

This is a rush transcript of “Geraldo At Large,” from February 21, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch “Geraldo At Large” weekends at 10 p.m. ET! The following transcript is Geraldo’s confrontation with Ronald Cummings, father of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings. …

JARRATT, Va. – An inmate declared his innocence Thursday after he was forcibly carried into Virginia’s death chamber, where he was executed for gunning down a police officer. Edward Nathaniel Bell, who was convicted of killing the officer during a foot chase a decade ago, was pronounced dead at 9:11 …