GENEVA – U.N. human rights investigators, citing “persistent and credible” reports of torture at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay (search), urged the United States on Thursday to allow them to check conditions there. The failure of the United States to respond to requests since early 2002 is leading the …

NEW YORK – Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY), the No. 1 U.S. electronics chain, Tuesday reported its quarterly profit jumped 85 percent, handily topping Wall Street estimates, on strong sales of MP3 music players, digital TVs and video games and fewer sales promotions. Shares of Best Buy (search), which reported …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. forces captured a man known as Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi’s (search) “most trusted operations agent in all of Iraq,” a U.S. general in Iraq said Thursday. Air Force Brig. Gen. Donald Alston told reporters Thursday that Mohammed Khalif Shaiker (search), also known as Abu Talha or the …

PASADENA, Calif. – The Mars rover (search) Opportunity resumed rolling freely across the Martian surface Saturday after scientists freed it from a sand dune where it had been mired for nearly five weeks, NASA (search) officials said. Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (search), which manages the mission, cheered when …

WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission on Friday cleared the way for Chevron Corp. (CVX) to acquire Unocal Corp. (UCL) for $18 billion, voting 4-0 to settle a two-year-old complaint against Unocal alleging anticompetitive practices. The settlement ends a legal fight between Unocal and the FTC (search) over the energy …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Some Army (search) reservists say they were disrespected by a sheriff’s deputy who made racially derogatory remarks during a confrontation in a national forest. The incident in the Apalachicola National Forest about 20 miles southwest of Tallahassee last week ended with three of the 12 soldiers getting …

CHICAGO – Three months after Boeing Co.’s former chief executive was forced to resign, the aerospace giant is expected to name 3M Co. CEO W. James McNerney Jr. (search) on Thursday as its new chief executive, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that McNerney, 55, …

CASTINA MILITARY BASE, Israel – A military court convicted an Israeli soldier of manslaughter Monday in the killing of a pro-Palestinian British activist in 2003. The defendant, Wahid Taysir (search), who no longer is in the army, was accused of shooting Tom Hurndall (search) in the head during an army …

This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” June 17, 2005, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Strip clubs tipping cab drivers to steer patrons their way? It is a very common practice in Las Vegas (search), and for cabbies, it is a way to …

Vietnam and the United States have a violent and bloody common history, but diplomacy has long since replaced war. This timeline shows the escalation of the Vietnam War and the eventual peace and good relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. September 2, 1945: Ho Chi Minh (search), leader of the …