AP - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he`s ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.

AP - President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.

AP - A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews rescued more than 30 people who had survived up to 100 improbable hours trapped in the ruins.

This is what the soaring cost of food looks like at street level: Poor people whose food stamps don`t buy as much as they once did rushing into a store in the dead of night on the first day of the month.

Robert Mondavi, who helped an iconic Northern California industry blossom by insisting that Napa Valley wines can compete with the world`s best, died in the valley Friday at 94.

Barack Obama has called President Bush`s comments on appeasement "exactly the kind of appalling attack that`s divided our country and alienates us from the rest of the world."

AP - New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick lashed out at the team`s former video assistant Friday, saying in a televised interview that Matt Walsh was a low-level staffer who was fired for "poor job performance." "There`s not a lot of credibility," Belichick said in an interview broadcast on "CBS Evening News."

AP - Peter Magowan, the owner who brought Barry Bonds to San Francisco, built a new ballpark and kept major league baseball in the city, is stepping down as managing partner of the Giants.