H By Walter Hamilton and Edwin Chen Los Angeles Times arvey L. Pitt, the embattled chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned under pressure late Tuesday after his latest misstep left...

L By James Bates Los Angeles Times OS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co. disclosed Monday what could become the legal equivalent of getting stuck in a honey jar for a Florida company locked in a battle over hundreds...

N By Walter Hamilton Los Angeles Times EW YORK - One of the nation's biggest accounting firms Monday accused William H. Webster, appointed to head the nation's new accounting oversight board, of making...

W By Esther Schrader and Henry Weinstein Los Angeles Times ASHINGTON - In striking a close associate of Osama bin Laden dead in Yemen, the Bush administration has entered a murky area of international...

J By John Ward Anderson The Washington Post ERUSALEM - As violence raged outside between Israelis and Palestinians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon narrowly survived three confidence votes in parliament Monday...

S By Mark Magnier Los Angeles Times RINAGAR, India - While pundits hope a recent election here in the Indian-held part of Kashmir will help end 13 years of secessionist violence, Mohammed Maqbool, 60,...

W By Peter Slevin The Washington Post ASHINGTON - The Bush administration, anticipating a successful U.N. Security Council vote on an Iraq resolution, plans to embark soon on a campaign to build public...

J By Laura King Los Angeles Times ERUSALEM - Benjamin Netanyahu, one of Israel's best-known and most popular politicians, said Sunday that he was willing to accept the job of foreign minister in Prime...

I By Karl Vick The Washington Post STANBUL, Turkey - A party with roots in political Islam won a decisive victory in Turkey's national election Sunday, presenting a possible challenge to a long secular...

W By Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers ASHINGTON (KRT) - The commander who is planning a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq has won Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's support for a ground...