LOS ANGELES – Jay Leno says he can still write the Michael Jackson jokes, he just can’t tell them. So while the “Tonight Show” host waits to hear whether he is exempt from a gag order barring potential witnesses from discussing Jackson’s child-molestation trial, Leno called on actor Brad Garrett …
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NEW YORK – Stocks managed to end near flat after an extremely volatile session Friday as oil prices lingered around $56 a barrel and investors rebalanced their portfolios due to a reshuffling of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) ended up 3.32 points, or …
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FOLEY, Mo. – The mother of a 13-year-old girl missing since Thursday says she regrets making the emotionally troubled teenager walk home alone to cool down, only to never see the daughter make it back to the residence. “It was a bad choice on my part,” Shannon Tanner told the …
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TAMPA, Fla. – A state appeals court Wednesday refused to block the removal of Terri Schiavo’s (search) feeding tube later this week, shifting the focus in the right-to-die dispute to the Legislature. The 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland turned down a request by Bob and Mary Schindler for …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – The Lebanese prime minister who was forced to resign by a wave of popular opposition was returned to his post Thursday, riding a counterwave of this week’s huge pro-Syrian demonstrations. Omar Karami’s (search) reappointment, which ensures Damascus’ continued dominance in Lebanon’s politics, is a slap to the …
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A Dutch businessman accused of complicity in genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq in the 1980s knew that Saddam Hussein might use them as weapons, prosecutors said at his first public hearing Friday. The case is seen as a landmark because it would be the first time …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) said Friday it has launched a studio to develop video games for mobile telephones, marking the company’s most aggressive step yet into the multibillion-dollar gaming market. The company said Yahoo Games Studio has already developed games for Verizon Wireless (VZ) and will soon make …
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HAFUN, Somalia – More than a decade ago, Norta Ibrahim Mudey fled the violent anarchy of Mogadishu for the sanctuary of this remote fishing village on the far northeastern coast of Somalia (search). But her newfound peace was shattered the day giant waves raced across the ocean from Asia. Somalis …
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Eleven detainees say U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay (search ), allegations that include beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, according to a lawyer’s notes that were recently declassified and released Monday. Some of the men …
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WASHINGTON – Americans over 40 and people who are nervous about retirement are most likely to oppose President Bush’s plan for creating personal accounts in Social Security (search), an Associated Press poll found. Almost half of Americans who haven’t retired say they don’t think they’re doing a good job of …
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