ATLANTA – BellSouth Corp. said Monday its “thorough review” found no indication it gave telephone records to the National Security Agency as part of a federal anti-terrorism surveillance program. A report last week by USA Today identified BellSouth, along with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., as companies that had …
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world’s tallest peak. David Sharp, 34, died apparently of oxygen deficiency while descending from the summit during a solo …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Police found a box full of bombs in central Indonesia after one of the explosives accidentally detonated, but refused to speculate whether the cache was intended for terrorist attacks or dynamite fishing. “We are investigating,” Lt. Col. Ari Subiyanto, a senior police official in East Java province, …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda in Iraq leader who led a brutal insurgency that included homicide bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, was killed in an airstrike on a building north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials announced Thursday. Officials said the terror leader’s identity was confirmed by …
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BILOXI, Miss. – The Federal Emergency Management Agency is checking whether thousands of families in Mississippi and Louisiana are eligible for the government-issued trailers they’re living in, but officials have stepped back from evicting hundreds of the families. In Mississippi, FEMA sent out “termination notices” to around 500 of the …
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MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – Eminem continued divorce proceedings with his wife, Kimberley Mathers, in a private hearing Thursday. Details of the meeting in Macomb County Circuit Court were not disclosed. Mathers, who is seeking financial support, attorney fees and joint custody of the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A Jordanian salesman who tried to use an identity card with Brad Pitt‘s photo was on trial in the Emirates, a newspaper reported Thursday. The 29-year-old salesman allegedly forged the card with the Hollywood actor’s picture and an Arabic name in an attempt to steal …
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NEW YORK – U.S. consumer sentiment rose more than expected in June, while expectations for future inflation subsided, a report showed Friday. The University of Michigan‘s final reading on consumer sentiment rose to 84.9 in June, up from May’s final reading of 79.1, said sources who saw the subscription-only report. …
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Police are searching for a light-colored GMC Jimmy or a Chevrolet Blazer as they hunt down the person responsible for the strangulation death of Clemson University student Tiffany Marie Souers. Authorities on Friday released photos of a vehicle similar to the one they believe a suspect may be driving. FOX …
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican issued a sweeping condemnation Tuesday of contraception, abortion, in-vitro fertilization and same-sex marriage, declaring that the traditional family has never been so threatened as in today’s world. The document was issued by the Pontifical Council for the Family, whose head, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, is …
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