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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 …

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 …

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 …