The 2003 tax cut offered great perks for investors — and also created a few snags that should be avoided. THE FEDERAL INCOME-TAX rate cuts included in the 2003 law were nothing but good news for investors. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t some nasty little potholes left behind by …

CRAWFORD, Texas – War protesters camping out near President Bush’s (search) ranch prepared Monday for a three-week bus tour to spread their anti-war message to people and lawmakers in 25 states. Three buses were to depart Wednesday from the makeshift camp started by Cindy Sheehan (search) along the main road …

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GENEVA – A U.N. rights expert will travel to Saudi Arabia next month to gather information about violence against women in the country, officials said Monday. Yakin Erturk, the U.N. special investigator for violence against women, will visit the kingdom from Feb. 4-13 and meet with government and civil society …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s 84-year-old president has a novel idea on how to battle anti-Semitism: Facebook. Shimon Peres told a group of international students on Tuesday at Israel’s Holocaust memorial that the popular social networking site was an effective means to counter the spread of hate and incitement on the Internet. …

After more than 60 years of playing golf, a 92-year-old Florida man, who is legally blind, made a hole-in-one for the first time, the St. Petersburg Times reported. “It was my first hole-in-one, and I never saw it,” Leo Fiyalko told the newspaper. “I was just trying to put the …

LAKELAND, Fla. – About 50 cars crashed on a highway blanketed by fog and smoke from a brush fire Wednesday, and authorities said at least three people were killed. A stretch of nearly 15 miles of Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando was closed by several accidents, including the 50-car …

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A substitute teacher fired for showing an alleged bootleg copy of “The Simpsons Movie” to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders is suing the New Haven school board. Aquil Abdul-Salaam’s lawsuit claims he’s lost his ability to ever work again in the field of education. He is seeking …

BEIJING – A 40-car freight train derailed and caught fire in northern China during the country’s massive earthquake and was still burning Tuesday evening, a railway official said. One injury was reported. The train, including 13 tank cars filled with gasoline, derailed and burst into flames Monday in Gansu province …

WASHINGTON – New York Rep. Vito Fossella will not seek re-election after a series of damaging revelations about a child from an extramarital affair, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. Both people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make the announcement …