LOS ANGELES – A new team of police detectives has been assigned to the unsolved 1997 murder of rapper Notorious B.I.G., authorities said. “They are investigating it, following up on the leads,” Assistant City Attorney Don Vincent told the City Council’s Public Safety Committee on Thursday. The 24-year-old rapper, born …

WASHINGTON – FEMA is struggling to fill hundreds of vacant jobs before the June 1 start of the annual hurricane season, the agency’s chief said Thursday. R. David Paulison, acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said “a couple hundred” staff positions are open, forcing many remaining employees to …

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela‘s president raised a new national flag Sunday with changes that he said pay tribute to the independence hero Simon Bolivar, drawing criticism from opponents who called it an egotistical political stunt. The flag proposed by President Hugo Chavez features a white horse galloping left instead of …

UNITED NATIONS – The United States views Iran‘s disputed nuclear weapons program as a test for the U.N. Security Council that should be addressed urgently but in a cautious and deliberate manner, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council are scheduled to hold …

This is the complete transcript from “On the Record,” March 20, 2006. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: We recently sat down with Joran van der Sloot, one of the prime suspects in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance. We asked him what he thinks about Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway Twitty. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JORAN …

SOMERSET, Pa. – The Flight 93 National Memorial will receive part of the box-office revenue from the new movie about the airliner hijacked during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Writer-director Paul Greengrass’ “United 93” will open April 28 and Universal Pictures will donate 10 percent of the first three days’ …

LOS ANGELES – Hugh O’Brian, a newlywed at age 81, finds himself philosophical about marriage, so much so that he and his bride spent their honeymoon studying philosophy at England’s Oxford University. “I think, quite frankly, an active mind is as important as an active body,” the former “Wyatt Earp” …

WASHINGTON – The United States plans to help train and equip the Lebanese army so it can take control of all of the nation’s territory when warfare between Israel and Hezbollah eases, the State Department said Thursday. The program was approved by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary …

LAFAYETTE, La. – A man shot and killed a Victoria’s Secret employee in a mall Friday evening, and an off-duty police officer fatally shot him in the parking lot as he tried to escape, officials said. Sherika Broussard, 21, was shot in the head in the store at the Mall …

The United States has more “high-potential entrepreneurs ” — those involved in technology and knowledge-transfer industries — than any other industrialized nation, according to the seventh-annual U.S. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Small Business Center. Directed by Babson College and the London Business School, the GEM study …