LOS ANGELES – “Jericho,” the post-apocalyptic CBS drama whose devoted fans rallied to save it from cancellation, has met its end. The show failed to increase its audience and will air its final episode Tuesday, the network said Friday. “Without question, there are passionate viewers watching this program; we simply …
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LOS ANGELES – Kellogg Co. (K), the world’s largest cereal maker, said Friday it plans to reduce artery-clogging trans fats in some of its products and called on others to invest in a new variety of soybean oil it said is healthier than other trans-fat-free oils. Kellogg said it plans …
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LOS ANGELES – Nike Inc. (NKE), the world’s largest athletic shoe company, Tuesday said its quarterly profit rose 15 percent on strong U.S. demand for its high-end athletic footwear, despite slowed growth in Europe and Japan. But the company’s shares fell from a New York Stock Exchange close of $88.48 …
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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 on tonight’s show. • President Bush says historians will see the year 2005 as a turning point in the history of …
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BISMARCK, N.D. – A man shown as a hostage on an insurgent video aired on Arab television is “my brother, there’s no question about that,” a North Dakota man said Wednesday. The man shown in the video is Ronald Schulz, an industrial electrician who has worked in Iraq, said Ed …
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CRANSTON, R.I. – See Paris Hilton in all her seductive splendor, striking a provocative pose for passing motorists and spreading hot Christmas cheer in a chilly Rhode Island winter. Blown-up images of Hilton and strings of pink Christmas lights adorn the front lawn of a home in a middle-class neighborhood …
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MINSK, Belarus – Belarusian lawmakers on Wednesday passed legislation that would crack down on Internet dating and online spouse searches in the latest in a series of stringent government controls backed by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. Authorities say the measure, which was passed 101-1 by the subservient lower house of …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – A timeline of the travels of Farris Hassan, 16, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who went to Iraq without telling his parents: Dec. 11 — Departs Miami International Airport, cutting a week of school. Dec. 12 — Gets connection in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dec. 13 — Lands in Kuwait …
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With Memorial Day weekend finally here, many Americans are planning picnics and barbecues — and more than ever before, many of those salads and veggie dishes are going to be prepared with olive oil (search). But this is not the yellow stuff in a can that Mom used to trot …
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Pretending to be cocaine traffickers, undercover FBI agents in Arizona snared 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move the drugs past checkpoints, the government said Thursday. Those charged include a former Immigration and Naturalization …
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