WASHINGTON – More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war’s chaotic early days has come to light — a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines. The letter — dated the …

WASHINGTON – President Bush is nominating Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr. to replace Treasury Secretary John Snow. In remarks at a White House Rose Garden ceremony Tuesday, the president announced Snow’s resignation and thanked him for his service. “The Treasury Secretary is the leading force on my economic …

TOKYO – Award-winning director Shohei Imamura, known for unsettling portrayals of common people and cinematic studies of life at the bottom of Japan’s rigid social structure, died Tuesday, his son said. He was 79. Imamura died of liver cancer, which he had been undergoing treatment for since last year, according …

This is a partial transcript from “The Journal Editorial Report,” May 20, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. PAUL GIGOT, HOST, THE JOURNAL EDITORIAL REPORT: Welcome to “The Journal Editorial Report,” I’m Paul Gigot. The State Department announced a full restoration of diplomatic ties with Libya this week, after …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A condemned inmate asked prison officials to find another way to execute him as they struggled to administer a lethal injection after an intravenous line failed, prison records show. “Can you just give me something by mouth to end this?” convicted killer Joseph Clark asked during the …

PARIS – The French woman who received the world’s first partial face transplant has complete feeling in the new tissue five months after the operation, she told a Sunday newspaper. Isabelle Dinoire, 38, also told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche that the hardest part of her recovery appears to …

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a former White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak case. The order by U.S. District Reggie B. Walton also said the New York Times might …

VILNIUS, Lithuania – Lithuanian police were so astonished by a breath test that registered 18 times the legal alcohol limit, they thought their device must be broken. It wasn’t. CountryWatch: Lithuania Police said Tuesday 41-year-old Vidmantas Sungaila registered 7.27 grams per liter of alcohol in his blood repeatedly on different …

Getting regular exercise may lower the risk of skin and bowel cancers, two new studies show. The studies are published in the May 13 online edition of the journal Carcinogenesis. Both teams of researchers studied mice, not people. It’s not yet known if the results apply to humans. One study …

WASHINGTON – In toasting Australia‘s prime minister at a White House dinner Tuesday night, President Bush quoted former President Reagan, who used to say it was “morning in America.” “That’s still true for our country,” Bush said, cheerfully. “We’re really an optimistic people, and we firmly believe the best days …