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CHICAGO – The well-rested White Sox (search) sure appear to have an edge over Los Angeles when the travel-weary Angels arrive in Chicago to play for the American League pennant. And baseball didn’t do the Angels any favors by scheduling Game 1 for Tuesday night. After a surprising sweep of …

NEW YORK – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (search) said Saturday that he had not expected President Bush to nominate him to replace the late William Rehnquist (search) as chief justice. “I’m not even sure I wanted it, to tell you the truth,” Scalia told reporters at a media briefing …

WASHINGTON – Steve Martin’s (search) character in “The Jerk” is ecstatic to find his name in print — in the phone book. “Things are going to start happening to me now!” he says. Twenty-six years later, the actor and writer is receiving a more prestigious form of recognition. For his …

VELIGONDA, India – A passenger train plunged into a rain-swollen river in southern India early Saturday, killing at least 100 people and trapping dozens more inside the derailed cars, officials said. About 100 injured passengers were rescued from the coaches, which derailed after floods washed away the tracks in the …

NEW YORK – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s (BMY) quarterly profit and 2005 forecast missed Wall Street estimates on Friday, a day after the company warned it may abandon an experimental diabetes drug, sending its shares down 3 percent. The New York-based drugmaker late on Thursday said it may halt work on …

This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, October 1, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MORT KONDRACKE, CO-HOST: Let’s check out this week’s ups and downs. DOWN: Louisiana’s …

NEW YORK – The Homeland Security Department has launched an internal investigation into whether department officials privately tipped off relatives or friends about last week’s subway terrorism threat before the public learned of the news, officials said Thursday. The probe was announced just as Gov. George Pataki and Police Commissioner …

WASHINGTON – The United States hopes Iraqis approve the draft constitution on Saturday, Vice President Dick Cheney (search) told FOX News on Friday, although Bush administration officials say they are not trying to influence the election. “I think we’re going to get a good vote and a big turnout and …

BALI, Indonesia – Survivors and relatives of those killed in the 2002 Bali (search) nightclub bombings gathered at the site of the attacks Wednesday to remember the 202 people killed and to send a defiant message to the Al Qaeda (search)-linked terrorists who allegedly carried them out. Snipers were deployed …

KATMANDU, Nepal – More than a dozen climbers from France and Nepal (search) were swept away in an avalanche on a Himalayan mountain and believed killed, an official said Monday. “We have located the area where they were buried by the avalanche and have begun digging through the snow looking …