“Saturday Night Live” alum Rob Schneider (search) is following up on his 1999 surprise hit, “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” this time taking his character overseas. “The audience grew up a little bit, the kids who saw the first one — who snuck into the first one — are 17 now. …
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PARIS – Lance Armstrong (search) denied a report Tuesday in the French sports daily L’Equipe that said the seven-time Tour de France champion used the performance-enhancing drug EPO to help win his first Tour in 1999. “Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow’s article is nothing short of tabloid journalism,” …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A NATO-led international force is set to expand and will be ready to assume responsibility for security across all of Afghanistan (search) by the end of next year, freeing up many of the 17,600 American troops battling militants here, a NATO (search) general said Thursday. The announcement …
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Despite recommendations, few people with chronic hepatitis C are being vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus. In most people, the hepatitis A virus causes a relatively mild, short-lived infection. But in people with hepatitis C, a hepatitis A infection can be much more serious — even deadly. Although the hepatitis …
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DETROIT – General Motors Corp. (GM) on Thursday said it was extending through Sept. 30 the discount program under which it is selling anybody a new car or truck at the same low price a GM employee would pay. The wildly successful program, which the ailing automaker introduced on June …
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Our inbox is overflowing with e-mail regarding Cindy Sheehan (search) and her vigil/protest in Crawford, Texas. Most viewer e-mail coming in defends the president, the troops and the war, while a smaller percentage of the e-mail sympathize with Cindy and her cause. This is what a few of you had …
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GLENVILLE, N.Y. – The government is going to take a new look at the claims of about a third of the military veterans who now get disability payments for post-traumatic stress disorder (search). The Veterans Affairs Department will begin a yearlong review next month of 72,000 cases after an internal …
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TRENTON, N.J. – Republican Douglas Forrester (search) has spent millions of his own dollars running for governor and supporting GOP candidates, but he is now fighting questions about whether that spending violated a New Jersey law designed to prevent undue corporate influence. Forrester holds a 51 percent ownership interest in …
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NEW YORK – Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) posted disappointing second-quarter sales on Thursday, hurt by heavy discounting on Harry Potter (search) books and store closings, pushing shares of the No. 1 U.S. bookseller down 3 percent. The company’s sales rose just 6 percent, to $1.17 billion. Analysts had been …
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NEW YORK – Kenny Rogers (search) was reinstated Tuesday when an arbitrator ruled that commissioner Bud Selig (search) went too far by suspending the Texas pitcher for 20 games and fining him $50,000 for shoving two cameramen. Rogers has already sat out 12 games. He will return to the Rangers …
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