KABUL, Afghanistan – A U.S. soldier and a former Afghan militia leader were killed Sunday when American troops clashed with gunmen during a search operation in western Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said. The troops came under attack from “an unknown number of enemy forces” while searching a compound near …
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NEW YORK – Wade Boggs (search) was overwhelmingly elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility Tuesday, and Ryne Sandberg (search) made it with just six votes to spare on his third try. Boggs, a five-time American League batting champion for the Boston Red Sox, was …
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New solutions for learning and mood disorders caused by epilepsy (search) may be a step closer to reality. Producing more brain cells might help, latest research shows. Brain injury caused by an acute seizure can prompt the production of new cells, which researchers say is most likely the result of …
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WASHINGTON – A splintered Supreme Court (search) threw the nation’s federal sentencing system into turmoil Wednesday, ruling that the way judges have been sentencing some 60,000 defendants a year is unconstitutional. In ordering changes, the court found 5-4 that judges have been improperly adding time to some criminals’ prison stays. …
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LAS VEGAS – An armed AirTran Airways pilot was charged with operating an aircraft under the influence after a federal screener at McCarran International Airport smelled alcohol, authorities said Thursday. Las Vegas police arrested Oliver Paul Reason Jr. (search), 37, in the cockpit of the AirTran plane shortly after he …
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Join host Brit Hume and FOX’s Team Washington weekdays at 6 p.m. ET for “Special Report” — Find out what’s happening inside the Beltway and on the world stage. Real journalism: fair and balanced. That’s why we’re No. 1 — FOX News Channel. Tuesday, Jan. 25: The latest from Iraq …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) spoke by telephone Tuesday with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (search) to reaffirm the importance of holding the Jan. 30 elections in that country, the White House said. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush spoke for about 10 minutes with Allawi, who has …
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Hi all, We’re about to get snowed under here in NYC, and I can’t wait! This will be our first real snowstorm of the winter. Here are some things we’re working on for Monday’s “DaySide:” An interview with Jim Wallis (search), the man who said that many in the Democratic …
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TORONTO – Canada on Sunday confirmed its second case of mad cow disease (search), just days after the United States said it planned to reopen its border to Canadian beef. The dairy cow from Alberta, which was born in 1996, has tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, as mad cow …
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Facts about President Bush’s Supreme Court nominee: EXPERIENCE — on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since June 2003. — one of President Bush’s least contentious picks for the bench. — former Rehnquist clerk, Roberts was associate counsel to President Reagan from 1982-86 and then …
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