JERUSALEM – Israel’s Cabinet convened on Sunday to approve a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip (search) and the inclusion of two large Jewish settlements blocs on the Israeli side of the West Bank separation barrier — historic decisions likely to shape the nation’s future borders. Both issues were expected to …
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SACRAMENTO – A 30-year-old teaching intern has been arrested after police found her with a 16-year-old male student in her car as the woman’s toddler was strapped into a car seat in the back. Margaret De Barraicua and the student are believed to have been having “an ongoing consensual sexual …
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – President Bush (search) said Tuesday that it is “simply ridiculous” to assume that the United States has plans to attack Iran (search) over its alleged nuclear weapons program. “This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. Having said that, all …
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WASHINGTON – Many people who come to the United States seeking political asylum (search) are treated like criminals, in some cases held in prisons and jails, a federal commission said Tuesday. Some asylum seekers are shackled, kept in solitary confinement or strip-searched, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom …
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NEW YORK – WorldCom Inc. CEO Bernard Ebbers (search) was angry about the company’s falling stock price in late 2000 and demanded to know why it was going down, his former chief financial officer testified Wednesday. Scott Sullivan (search) told jurors at Ebbers’ fraud trial that the CEO checked the …
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TAOS, N.M. – Country singer Lynn Anderson (search) has been accused of shoplifting a “Harry Potter” DVD from a Taos supermarket and punching a police officer. Anderson’s attorney entered pleas of not guilty on behalf of the singer to charges of battery on a police officer, resisting a police officer …
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NEW YORK – Approaching the first anniversary of Janet Jackson‘s (search) famed wardrobe malfunction, a study released Tuesday criticized MTV for the “incessant sleaze” of steamy programming aimed at young people. During one week last March, the watchdog Parents Television Council (search) said it counted 3,056 flashes of nudity or …
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. government is changing visa procedures to make it easier for some foreign students wishing to study science or other technical fields in the United States. The changes are intended to speed up the process of approving security clearances and allowing those clearances to remain in effect …
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TETERBORO, N.J. – Passengers and crew members of a corporate jet that skidded off a runway and roared across a six-lane highway managed to walk or crawl from the fiery wreckage, and authorities expressed amazement that no one was killed. About 20 people were taken to hospitals, including two injured …
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CHICAGO – Wendy’s International Inc. (WEN), the No. 3 U.S. hamburger chain, Thursday forecast a 10 percent to 13 percent increase in 2005 earnings per share. The company also targeted a long-term earnings per share growth rate of 11 percent to 13 percent. For 2005, the company forecast earnings of …
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