LOS ANGELES – McDonald’s Corp. (MCD), which has been trying to change the image of its counter jobs as low-paying and dead end, Wednesday unveiled a new television ad featuring Olympian Carl Lewis (search) and others whose first jobs were at the Golden Arches. The commercial, which hits the U.S. …

Here’s what is on tap for Friday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET With John Roberts (search) sworn in as the new chief justice of the United States, attention is now focused on who will fill the vacant seat on the bench. Will President Bush nominate a …

Join host Brit Hume and FOX’s Team Washington weekdays at 6 p.m. ET for “Special Report” — Find out what’s happening inside the Beltway and on the world stage. Real journalism: fair and balanced. That’s why we’re No. 1 — FOX News Channel. Friday, September 16: Team FOX goes around …

This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, September 17, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. MORT KONDRACKE, CO-HOST: Katrina brought out the worst in racial politics, as we go beyond …

Above all else, John Bauhs credits a drug for helping him stop drinking — a story line some alcoholics, doctors and drug companies hope will become more common as new treatment options emerge. Bauhs tried practically everything he could think of to stop during 25 years of drinking but he …

NEW ORLEANS – Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said. Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six. …

MOSCOW – Former President Boris Yeltsin (search) underwent hip surgery Thursday in a Moscow (search) hospital, a day after he fell and broke a leg while vacationing on an Italian island, Russian news agencies reported. Yeltsin, 74, was recovering after the operation, which proceeded with “no complications,” Dr. Valery Zolotov …

NEW YORK – Star Jones Reynolds (search) is returning to the red carpet for the prime-time Emmys (search). Jones Reynolds will host E! Entertainment Television’s arrivals show, “Live From the Red Carpet,” (search) Sept. 18 (6 p.m. EDT) from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It will be her second …

WASHINGTON – After waiting in limbo for months, Lester Crawford (search), President Bush’s choice to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, was confirmed easily by the Senate on Monday. Three senators — Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Patty Murray, D-Wash. — had placed holds on …

ITHACA, N.Y. – Urie Bronfenbrenner, a Cornell University psychologist who pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to the study of child development and helped create the federal Head Start program, has died. He was 88. Bronfenbrenner, a member of the Cornell faculty since 1948, died at his home Sunday from complications from …