Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader has taken the side of Cindy Sheehan (search), the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who’s camped outside President Bush’s Texas ranch. Nader praises her for “the courage to spotlight … the cowardly character trait of …
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SINGAPORE – Will the next world-famous athlete on a box of Wheaties be carrying a joystick instead of a basketball, football or tennis racquet? From the way the United States national team basked in the glory as overall global champion in the World Cyber Games on Nov. 20 in Singapore, …
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NEW YORK – At 36, Lucy Appert has suffered through two miscarriages, a stillbirth at 8 1/2 months and, because of a rare pregnancy-related liver dysfunction, intensive illness and surgery. Yet after enduring five painful years of trying to have their own baby, Appert and her husband Edward finally saw …
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The G-20 Summit’s coming to a town near you … Pittsburgh that is! Are you looking of visiting this weekend while the Economy summit’s in town? Well, you’re in the right place! FOX Fan has compiled a list of the top 10 things to do in the city of Pittsburgh …
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FLORISSANT, Mo. – A 23-year-old St. Louis County man is dead after three men broke into a home and gunned him down. Police are searching for the assailants. The crime happened just before 5 a.m. Wednesday in an unincorporated area of St. Louis County, near Florissant. The victim is identified …
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A judge has ordered an Afghanistan-born Colorado man who allegedly received Al Qaeda training and had bomb-making instructions on his computer be held pending a detention hearing Thursday. Investigators say Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old airport shuttle driver, played a direct role in an alleged terror plot that unraveled during a …
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LOS ANGELES – A former prosecutor said Wednesday he lied when he told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski’s sex case that he should send the director to prison. The statement later became part of the basis for a move by Polanski’s attorneys to …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A homicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a hotel in a northwest Pakistan market on Friday, killing 25 people in a possible sectarian attack, police and a government official said. The attack was the second in two days in Kohat, a rough town not far from …
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– The teen girl who Rebecca Williams was set to adopt already had the dress she planned to wear on what she calls her “voyage” home to the United States. But the trip from Haiti to Tampa, Fla., might never happen for 15-year-old Darline. On the day she was to …
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UNITED NATIONS – Rescuers recovered the body of veteran diplomat Hedi Annabi, who was in charge of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti when the earthquake struck and collapsed the U.N. headquarters building, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Saturday. Ban said the bodies of Annabi’s deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa, and …
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