MEXICO CITY – Mexico said it has detained a man believed linked to the groups that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. The federal attorney general’s office, in a bulletin issued late Tuesday, identified the man as Amer Haykel (search) and said he was …
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ROSEBURG, Ore. – A newborn kitten recently entered the world with two faces and, hopefully, at least nine lives. Gemini was born Sunday with two mouths, two tongues, two noses and four eyes. “I kind of feel sorry for her, because I can’t know for a fact if she’s going …
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Dear Friends — Do you own a life insurance policy? An annuity? How about an IRA? Are you covered by a company retirement plan? Do you know who the beneficiary is on each of these assets? Are you sure this is the person who should receive this money if something …
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YUMA, Ariz. – Police were searching for a man seen running from a home where six people, including four children, were killed in western Arizona (search). Authorities released little new information on the case Sunday other than to confirm that the victims included a mother and her four children, ages …
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FLORAL PARK, N.Y. – A man’s leg and part of his torso dropped out of the wheel well of a jetliner near Kennedy Airport (search) and plunged into a suburban neighborhood Tuesday, coming to rest in a home’s backyard, authorities said. The flying body parts made for a ghastly discovery …
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A Canadian town has limited the number of garage sales (search) residents can hold per year to three. “We’ll shut you down and we’ll charge you,” Brian Sweet, chief administrative officer of Leamington, Ontario, told the Canadian Broadcasting Company (search). Fourth-timers could be fined up to $5,000 Canadian (about $4,200 …
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NEW YORK – Corporate raider Carl Icahn and several other investors plan to push to get one or more independent board members on Time Warner Inc.’s (TWX) board, the financier said on Monday. Icahn and Time Warner management met on Aug. 18, but now he plans to appeal directly to …
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The following is a transcribed excerpt of “FOX News Sunday,” Sept. 4, 2005. CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS: We’re joined now from Louisiana by Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security and President Bush’s point man on the crisis along the gulf coast. Mr. Secretary, welcome. Thanks for joining us. What …
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UNITED NATIONS – North Korea’s (search) deputy foreign minister urged the United States Thursday to provide it with a nuclear reactor as a “simultaneous” step in its disarmament, and said his country would welcome a visit by the chief U.S. arms negotiator. U.S. officials had downplayed Pyongyang’s insistence on reactors …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The war in Iraq (search) passed a sobering milepost Tuesday when U.S. officials reported 12 more Americans were killed — eight of them members of the armed forces, raising to more than 1,900 the number of U.S. service members who have died in the country since the …
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