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WASHINGTON – A year before the Iraq invasion, the then-Army secretary warned his Pentagon bosses that there was inadequate control of private military contractors (search), which are now at the heart of controversies over misspending and prisoner abuse. The author of that memo, retired Army chief Thomas White (search), said …

INDIANAPOLIS – Police say seven kindergartners and a school bus driver were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after their bus veered off a road and ended up on its side in Indianapolis. Indianapolis Police Sgt. Matthew Mount said the bus landed on its right side in grass off …

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday on calls for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing over China’s crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only penalize athletes. “We believe that the boycott doesn’t solve anything,” Rogge told reporters on this Caribbean …