WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist sidesteps President Bush’s call for giving illegal immigrants temporary work permits in an election-year immigration bill the Tennessee Republican unveiled Friday. Frist, who is seeking his party’s nomination in 2008 to succeed Bush in the White House, said the Senate will turn to …

LOS ANGELES – Sophia Bush is seeking to annul her brief marriage to her “One Tree Hill” co-star Chad Michael Murray, citing fraud. According to papers filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Bush married Murray on April 16 and the pair separated five months later. The 23-year-old actress also …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The feared resumption of mass sectarian violence erupted Sunday in a Baghdad Shiite slum when bombers blew apart two markets shortly before sundown, killing at least 44 people and wounding about 200. The bloody assaults on Sadr City came only minutes after Iraqi political leaders said the …

MANALAPAN, Fla. – The pianist Yanni was arrested at his Manalapan home after a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, authorities said. Yanni, whose legal name is John Yanni Christopher, was arrested early Friday and faces a domestic battery charge, according to a police report. The Greek-born musician had asked his …

BILLINGS, Mont. – More than 250 scientists and researchers have signed a letter protesting a federal proposal to no longer protect grizzly bears in the Yellowstone area under the Endangered Species Act. The letter dated Monday was addressed to Chris Servheen, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s grizzly bear recovery …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – After nearly three months in captivity in Iraq, American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday. Carroll, who was a freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor at the time of her kidnapping, apparently was left in the street near the Iraqi Islamic Party offices in Al Ameriya …

LOS ANGELES – The Internet buzz over “Snakes on a Plane” turned out to be nothing to hiss about. The high-flying thriller preceded by months of unprecedented Web buildup technically debuted as the No. 1 movie, but with a modest $15.25 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Distributor …

WASHINGTON – Researchers are finding that the fibers that form blood clots are tougher and more elastic than they suspected. And doctors say this discovery could lead to better treatments for heart attacks and strokes. The research findings are in tomorrow’s edition of the journal Science. They say the fibers …

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Pluto, beloved by some as a cosmic underdog, but scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday. The International Astronomical Union, dramatically reversing course just a week after floating the idea of reaffirming Pluto’s …

Despite the flood of new service-friendly technologies, nearly half of U.S. consumers were driven away from retailers, banks, and other businesses in the past year by lousy customer service, a new survey shows. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Small Business Center. Of more than 1,000 respondents to an online poll …