JERUSALEM – Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says he will halt the current round of peace talks with the Palestinians if he wins elections next February. Spokeswoman Dina Libster says the Israeli politician believes the talks over the past year have failed. The talks aim to resolve all key …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from November 20, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PATRICK LEAHY, (D-VT) SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: I have known Eric Holder for a year. If he is President-elect Obama’s …

More CCTV images have emerged of the moment terrorists went on a murder spree across India’s financial capital. The footage, shown on India’s New Delhi TV, captures two separate attacks. The first appears to show two gunmen marking their territory after crowds had cleared at the city’s busy central station. …

MEXICO CITY – “Hellboy” director Guillermo del Toro says he is unlikely to make another film in Mexico because his father’s kidnapping 10 years ago left him fearing for his safety, a newspaper reported Thursday. Del Toro’s father was eventually released, but the family says it later received death threats. …

LOS ANGELES – A Mexican federal police commander whose top deputies were gunned down last weekend was arrested in California for investigation of drug trafficking, authorities said Friday. Carlos Alberto Cedano Filippini, 34, was arrested Wednesday night in suburban West Covina along with his wife, Julissa Lopez, for investigation of …

This is a rush transcript from “America’s Election HQ,” August 14, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. HEATHER NAUERT, HOST: Now we’re talking about the youth vote which could make all the difference in this year’s election. Eighteen to 29 year olds …

PARIS – Two French humanitarian workers were kidnapped Friday in Afghanistan, spirited at gunpoint out of the house they were sleeping in, aid group Action Against Hunger and the French Foreign Ministry said. The two are believed to be alive, the Paris-based group said in a statement. The kidnappers burst …

A dwarf planet circling the sun out beyond the orbit of Neptune has been rechristened Makemake after a Polynesian god and designated the third of the solar system’s new class of plutoids, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced Saturday. Makemake is a small, red-tinged world that ranks among the largest …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – In an homage to the running of the bulls in Spain, visitors to an Alaska winter festival will get the chance to run shoulder-to-shoulder with reindeer. For the inaugural Running of the Reindeer, about a dozen of the animals will be set loose Feb. 24 in downtown …

RENO, Nev. – The FBI and two investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined the search for a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously vanished from a Reno, Nev., home early Sunday morning. Brianna Denison, a student at Santa Barbara City College, was staying with friends near …