Federal regulators are investigating whether a group of best-selling arthritis drugs made by Abbott Laboratories, Schering-Plough Corp. and other companies heighten the risk of cancer in youngsters. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has received 30 reports of children and young adults developing cancer while taking the drugs …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spacewalking astronauts worked on the outside of Japan’s shiny new science lab Thursday, installing cameras and removing covers. Dressed head to toe in white, Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. looked like puffy dolls against the 37-foot-long, 14-foot-wide lab, which is now the biggest room at …
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LONDON – Radical preacher Abu Qatada, once called Usama bin Laden’s “spiritual ambassador in Europe,” was released on bail Tuesday in a court decision that dealt an embarrassing blow to the British government’s anti-terror campaign. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith reacted by saying the government will protect national security and public …
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VIENNA, Austria – Syria has told fellow Arab countries that it will not permit an International Atomic Energy Agency probe to extend beyond a site bombed by Israel, despite agency interest in three other suspect locations, diplomats have told The Associated Press. The agency’s main focus on its planned June …
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NEW YORK – It’s a beautiful day for a ballgame. Let’s play 12! The staff of the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team was playing ball for 24 hours nonstop over the weekend to raise money for charity. The 13-member team included the general manager and assistant general manager and …
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NEW YORK – American Airlines on Monday insisted it tried to help a passenger who died after complaining she couldn’t breathe, and disputed the account of a relative who said that she was denied oxygen and that medical devices failed. The airline said the oxygen tanks and a defibrillator were …
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MIAMI – With alternately tearful goodbyes and barely contained impatience, more than 100 South Floridians surrendered their exotic animals Saturday at a zoo event designed to give owners an alternative to simply turning them loose. The canopied plastic tables at the Miami MetroZoo became exhibits of their own as passers-by …
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WINTON, N.C. – Police say two adults and two children are dead following a collision between a car and a logging truck in North Carolina near the Virginia line. The state highway patrol says the crash happened Thursday afternoon on a highway west of Winton in Hertford County. Troopers are …
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LONDON – Georgian businessman and political activist Badri Patarkatsishvili died of natural causes, according to interim post mortem results, but extensive toxicological tests have not yet been carried out, British police said Thursday. Patarkatsishvili, 52, died at his home in Leatherhead, south of London, on Tuesday. “Following initial inquiries and …
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DEKALB, Ill – A former student dressed in black walked onto the stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday, killing six students, wounding 15 and setting off a panicked stampede before committing suicide, FOX News has confirmed. “I kept …
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