DALLAS – An elderly man who killed his invalid wife last month because his own health was failing and he couldn’t bear to send her to a nursing home has died of cancer, his daughter said. “He was comfortable. He was at peace and ready to be with the woman …
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LOS ANGELES – Warner Bros.’s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was once blamed for aiding the swapping of illegally copied films and programs. The pact marks a big step for Hollywood as …
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BEIJING – The World Food Program has reached agreement with North Korea to resume food aid to the hunger-stricken country after a six-month suspension, but the operation will be smaller than it was before, the U.N. agency said Thursday. The WFP will feed 1.9 million of the “most needy” people …
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom DeLay, the once-powerful majority leader whose career was undermined by scandal, said Thursday he would resign from the House on June 9. “As you are aware,” the Texas Republican wrote House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., “I have recently made the decision to pursue new opportunities to …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Tuesday warned of a “critical” security flaw in its Windows operating system and another in its business Exchange software that could allow attackers to take control of a computer. Microsoft, whose Windows operating system runs on 90 percent of the world’s computers, issued patches …
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WASHINGTON – White House press secretary Tony Snow said Wednesday the United States is working with “regional and international partners” to keep Al Qaeda from establishing itself in northeastern Africa, but would not say whether that included warlords in Somalia. Snow cited Somalia’s lack of a functioning government and said …
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SANTIAGO, Chile – A Chilean Supreme Court panel freed former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on bail Thursday while he fights extradition on corruption and human rights charges. The justices voted 4-1 to allow the former authoritarian leader to go free, but they prohibited him from leaving Chile, said the president …
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. – A second Army paratrooper pleaded guilty Monday to charges stemming from an investigation of soldiers who appeared on a military-themed pornographic Web site. Pvt. Kagen B. Mullen, 21, one of seven members of the 82nd Airborne Division charged with appearing on the site, pleaded to charges …
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Most persistent online role-playing games seem to have a fixation with dragons and dungeons, orcs and elves. It’s certainly a theme that works. Millions of players worldwide have signed up to plumb the depths of dragon-filled dungeons like Blackwing Lair in the multiplayer online game “World of Warcraft.” But what …
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ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. – Best investment advice I ever got is 2,500 years old, came from the Awakened One, Buddha. He warned his disciples, and all of us investors down through the ages, with this psychological tidbit of financial wisdom: “Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who …
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