KABUL, Afghanistan – A roadside explosion hit a Canadian Embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital Monday, wounding one Canadian passenger, officials said. Witnesses said three Afghan civilians were also hurt. Officials said it appeared that the blast, which left a five-foot-wide crater beside the busy road in eastern Kabul, was …
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WASHINGTON – Officials from cities across America are asking Congress to fight President Bush’s planned cuts to a program they say has helped them clean up blight and slums. Members of the National League of Cities (search) are adding their voices to those of lawmakers who have balked at Bush’s …
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NEW YORK – U.S. chain store retail sales fell in the latest week, as below normal temperatures hurt demand for spring apparel, a retail report said on Tuesday. Sales fell 1.0 percent in the week ended March 26, compared with a 0.2 percent increase the previous week, the International Council …
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy (search) has dispatched two vessels to Nias island (search) in the earthquake-struck region of Indonesia, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. The USNS Mercy (search), a hospital ship, and the USNS Niagara Falls (search), a supply ship, are under way and should arrive at Nias island …
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WASHINGTON – Preliminary information indicates that some of the cultures coming back of samples taken from Washington, D.C., mail facilities are testing positive for anthrax, a senior health official told FOX News on Tuesday. The tests follow the discovery of the potentially deadly bacteria last Thursday by sensors at two …
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NEW YORK – Random House Inc. is suing Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (search), alleging that the hip-hop mogul never paid back a $300,000 advance for a memoir he never completed. In papers filed Monday at the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the publisher alleged that Combs and his corporation, Bad …
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FREDERICK, Md. – No charges have been filed yet in a reported child abduction this morning in Frederick County (search). The sheriff’s office is questioning 40-year-old Joseph Warren (search) — the father of nine-month-old Diana Warren (search) — who was reported taken from her 20-year-old mother after a domestic dispute …
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WASHINGTON – A congressional committee will hold hearings on identity theft (search) and information brokers following the revelation that personal data on millions of people was stolen from ChoicePoint (search) Inc.’s databanks, a top Republican said Thursday. Democrats, including Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California and Charles …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A NATO (search) helicopter searching for an Afghan jetliner that disappeared during a snowstorm with 104 people aboard found what appeared to be the wreckage of the plane Saturday in the forbidding mountains east of the Afghan capital, officials said. “The wreckage of the plane was found …
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SEATTLE – Hidden cameras and microphones placed by federal agents in a house in Lynden, Wash., paid off recently when officials uncovered a plot to dig a drug tunnel from Canada to the United States. But because federal officials used a provision in the U.S. Patriot Act (search) to bug …
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