Officials with four cruise ship lines will visit the Gulf Coast next month to evaluate the Mississippi State Port at Gulfport as a destination for their ships.
The U.S. government is seeking samples of DNA from Osama bin Laden's family to determine if human remains found in Afghanistan belong to the terrorist leader, government sources said Wednesday.
Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket goods rose a larger-than-expected 2.6 percent in January, suggesting the nation's battered manufacturing sector is edging toward a recovery.
A tense meeting between Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs ended without an agreement on how to end 17 months of fighting, officials said Wednesday.