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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of people gathered across from the White House on Saturday, even though the president was out of town, to condemn U.S. and Israeli policies in the Middle East. Speakers in Lafayette Park energized the most mostly Muslim crowd with chants and speeches condemning Israeli involvement in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, U.S. support for Israel and U.S. involvement in Iraq. "Occupation is a crime," the crowd chanted, equating the situations in the thr ...

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A man-sized artificial palm tree and a sausage grinder have shared space in a state government warehouse with piles of Swiss Army knives and chain saws -- just a few of the things travelers have had to give up at airport security checkpoints. Pennsylvania turns a small profit by disposing of these castoff items, which it accepts from security contractors at 12 airports in five states, by selling them to the highest bidders at the online auction site eBay. Most  ...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Fidel Castro is sitting up, walking and even working a bit on the eve of his 80th birthday, Cuba's official Communist Party newspaper said Saturday in the most optimistic report since intestinal surgery forced him to step aside as president. Also Saturday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans to visit his close friend and political ally in Havana. "Tomorrow I will be with Fidel celebrating his 80th birthday," Chavez told a news conference in the Venez ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The lawyer for two of the suspects rounded up in a possible plot to bring down as many as 10 trans-Atlantic flights on Saturday criticized their treatment at the hands of British police. In an exclusive CNN interview, attorney Mudassar Irani listed a series of complaints, including the allegation that one of her clients had not received food and water for 26 hours. Police arrested 24 people in connection with the alleged terror plot, although one man was released after ...

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A federal judge has ordered personal items seized in 1996 from Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's Montana cabin to be sold online. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. ruled Thursday that items belonging to Kaczynski -- including books, tools, clothing and two checkbooks -- should be sold at a "reasonably advertised Internet auction." The auction will not  ...

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) -- President Bush said Saturday that a scheme to blow up several flights between Britain and the United States was carefully planned and well-advanced, with the potential to cause "death on a massive scale." In his most extensive comments on the disrupted plot, Bush said it was a stark reminder that terrorists still aim to kill Americans five years after the September 11 attacks. "This plot is further evidence that the terrorists we face are sophisticated an ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nine Egyptian students out of 11 who had gone missing in the United States two weeks ago are in custody, a government statement said Saturday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and FBI investigators are trying to locate the remaining two students. The FBI issued a nationwide alert with the students' names, ages, passport numbers and photos. Three students were found and arrested Friday night in Des Moines, Iowa, according to the statement from the FBI and the immigr ...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- British police confirmed Saturday that they had raided a series of Internet cafes in their investigation into an alleged plot to blow up as many as 10 trans-Atlantic aircraft. There was no confirmation of any arrests in the raids in London, Birmingham and the Thames Valley region, west of the capital. The raids came as links to suspected terror operatives in Pakistan -- possbily connected to al Qaeda -- were Saturday emerging as key elements of the investigation into a ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- Police officers will be driving taxis as part of an effort to halt a wave of violence that has claimed 15 lives in 10 days -- including that of a cab driver. The announcement Friday by Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson came on the day when two more men died. A police officer found a man dead inside a car Friday afternoon just two blocks from the scene of a deadly ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked U.S. troops patrolling in the remote northeast of Afghanistan, killing three soldiers before American forces repelled the assault with artillery fire, an official said Saturday. Three soldiers and one civilian were also wounded in the battle in Waygal district of Nuristan province Friday, said Col. Tom Collins, a c ...