TORONTO – Toronto Hydro Telecom Inc. announced plans Tuesday to blanket downtown Toronto with wireless WiFi coverage, allowing laptops to log onto the Internet anywhere within the zone, from park benches to cars and cafeterias. The project will establish Canada’s largest zone of wireless fidelity — or Wi-Fi — the …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Republicans are already looking beyond the embattled Bush presidency to the 2008 campaign. Nearly 2,000 GOP activists are attending a weekend conference to hear from presidential prospects and share strategies on a conservative agenda many believe Washington has forsaken. One highlight will be a straw poll to …

WASHINGTON – President Bush, quietly floating a plan with big implications, wants schools to face consequences for falling short in science, just as they do in reading and math. The president’s proposal would require schools to make yearly progress in science, adding a third high-stakes subject to a No Child …

LOS ANGELES – Four of five oil paintings by Gustav Klimt that were the focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and the artworks’ Jewish heirs will be heading to Christie’s for sale this fall, according to the president of the auction house. Christie’s has not determined whether …

ALBANY, N.Y. – One of Sen. Hillary Clinton‘s Republican rivals suspended her campaign “until further notice” Monday following her teenage daughter’s arrest on a shoplifting charge. Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland, who has been in a bitter primary fight against former Yonkers mayor John Spencer, has canceled her upcoming events with …

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned — especially a woman scorned in the sack. Husband not living up to your … ahem … conjugal expectations? What better way to renew the spark than a 911 call and a bedroom full of embarrassed policeman? A 44-year-old woman in Aachen, …

GAUHATI, India – A grenade blast in a Hare Krishna temple during a major Hindu religious festival killed one woman and a child Wednesday in India‘s northeast, an army spokesman said. Another 17 people were injured in a stampede that followed the blast in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, …

RICHMOND, Va. – Sen. George Allen apologized Tuesday for remarks that offended a man of Indian descent who was tracking the Republican’s re-election campaign for Democratic challenger Jim Webb. S.R. Sidarthsaid he felt Allen was singling him out because of his race when the senator called him “Macaca” during a …

The Khmer Rouge wing of the Democratic Party is making a bid for a complete takeover. Today in a letter from multi-millionaire propagandist Michael Moore: an unveiled threat to any Democrat who ever supported the war in Iraq. Moore says: “We will actively work to defeat each and every one …

GREENBELT, Md. – A former press secretary for several members of Congress who said he robbed banks to pay for golf and rent was sentenced Monday to more than 12 1/2 years in prison. Thomas C. Springer, 57, of Garrett Park, pleaded guilty to four counts of bank robbery in …