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WASHINGTON – Hostile attitudes and inappropriate treatment of women persist at the U.S. Military Academy (search) at West Point and the Naval Academy (search), a Pentagon task force says in a new study. The panel called for better training of future officers at the academies, saying the value of women …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” August 19, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger facing more pressure to declare a state of emergency along California’s border with Mexico. Arizona and New Mexico have already made that move …

MIAMI, Fla. – A look at the impact of Hurricane Katrina (search) on southeast Florida: — Six people were killed, including three by falling trees. — More than 1.3 million customers lost power. Florida Power & Light said about 1 million residential and business customers remained without power Friday evening. …

ISFAHAN, Iran – Iran removed the final seals from equipment at a uranium conversion plant as U.N. inspectors watched Wednesday, paving the way for Tehran to fully open the facility despite European and U.S. calls for it to maintain the suspension of its nuclear program. The move came as Europe …

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NEW YORK – Two men wheeled a dead man through the streets in an office chair to a check-cashing store and tried to cash his Social Security check before being arrested on fraud charges, police said. David J. Dalaia and James O’Hare pushed Virgilio Cintron’s body from the Manhattan apartment …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – An immigrant family left a 23-month-old boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip. Jun Parreno, the boy’s father, told The Vancouver Sun the mix-up occurred Monday as he, his wife and two grandparents …

JUNEAU, Alaska – The lawyers aren’t clearing their calendars just yet, but the oil industry is bracing for some courtroom battles to maintain its stake in Alaska’s oil-rich fields now that the Interior Department has listed polar bears as a threatened species. About 15 percent of the nation’s oil is …

VIENNA, Austria – Police say a woman wielding pepper spray injured herself and 18 others in a Vienna subway car when she attacked a man who complained she was talking too loudly on her cell phone. Authorities say the incident Wednesday injured 17 schoolchildren, their teacher and the cell-phone talker …

CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez is revamping his intelligence agencies to counter what he calls U.S. attempts to undermine his government. Four new spy agencies will replace the current DISIP secret police and DIM military intelligence agency, Interior Minister Ramon Rodriguez Chacin said Thursday. A new law has established …