WASHINGTON – The FBI says it sometimes gets the wrong number when it intercepts conversations in terrorism investigations, an admission critics say underscores a need to revise wiretap provisions in the Patriot Act (search). The FBI would not say how often these mistakes happen. And, though any incriminating evidence mistakenly …

BERLIN – Conservative challenger Angela Merkel’s party won the most votes in German elections Sunday but fell short of a clear mandate to govern, according to official results. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (search) staged a dramatic comeback and proclaimed that he should head the next government. The vote heralded the end …

Watch “The Big Story” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET Just as residents begin to return to flood-ravaged New Orleans, Tropical Storm Rita (search) is gaining strength. We’ll track the storm’s progress with FOXCaster Janice Dean. The mayor of New Orleans begins allowing people back into one neighborhood to check out …

TOKYO – Lost in a store? Let Japanese electronics maker Fujitsu’s (search) robot help guide your way. Equipped with voice recognition (search) capabilities, cameras and sensors, the 4-foot tall robot on wheels will go on sale for 6 million yen ($54,000) each in Japan in November — for just such …

PARIS – President Jacques Chirac’s (search) medical condition is “very satisfactory,” a military hospital said Sunday, two days after he was admitted for a blood vessel problem that disrupted his vision. Chirac, 72, will remain under medical supervision for several more days, Val-de-Grace (search) hospital said in a statement. “His …

WASHINGTON – He’s been called an idiot, an incompetent and worse. The vilification of federal disaster chief Michael Brown (search), emerging as chief scapegoat for whatever went wrong in the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina (search), has ratcheted into the stratosphere. Democratic members of Congress are taking numbers to call …

WASHINGTON – Acting with extraordinary speed, Congress approved an additional $51.8 billion for relief and recovery from Hurricane Katrina on Thursday. President Bush pledged to make it “easy and simple as possible” for uncounted, uprooted storm victims to collect food stamps and other government benefits. “We’re not asking for a …

LONDON – A 36-year-old man was arrested in London Tuesday in connection with the attempted July 21 terror bombings in London (search), FOX News has confirmed. A little after noon EDT, the man was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch on suspicion of assisting an offender and …

WASHINGTON – President Bush said Monday that the government is prepared to again tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (search) to alleviate any new pain at the pump caused by Hurricane Rita’s assault on the center of the nation’s energy industry, and he asked Americans not to drive if they don’t …

JACKSON, Miss. – Two dolphins that were swept from their aquarium tanks into the Gulf of Mexico by Hurricane Katrina were rescued Thursday, but six others remained at sea. The two rescued dolphins were captured after scientists in a boat coaxed the trained animals into sliding onto mats. The dolphins …