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TOLEDO, Ohio – Members of a neo-Nazi group staged a rally at City Hall on Saturday, two months after plans for an earlier march set off a four-hour riot in which a mob attacked businesses and police. Hundreds of officers stood guard to make sure there was no repeat of …

SANTIAGO, Chile – Gen. Augusto Pinochet was fingerprinted and photographed by police Wednesday as part of his indictment for the killing and disappearance of nine dissidents during his military dictatorship. Pablo Rodriguez, a lawyer for the 90-year-old former ruler, called the procedure “an affront to a former President of the …

WASHINGTON – The following is a transcript of the Democrats radio response: Good morning, this is Congressman George Miller from California. I would like to talk to you today about the urgent need for America to retain its world leadership in innovative ideas and new technologies that will fuel our …

MANILA, Philippines – Japanese diplomats investigated claims Friday that two former Japanese soldiers have been hiding in the mountains of the southern Philippines since World War II. The health ministry, in charge of repatriating Japanese overseas, said it was sending an official to the southern Philippine city of General Santos …

Researchers say a drug prescribed for osteoporosis may protect against endometrial cancer. Women who took Evista “had about half the risk of endometrial cancer than those not using the drug,” says researcher Angela DeMichele, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania in …

FORT HOOD, Texas – An Army reservist who appeared in several of the most infamous abuse photos taken by guards at Abu Ghraib (search) prison was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison for her role in the scandal that rocked the U.S. military’s image at home and abroad. The …

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Six Marines were reportedly killed and 15 were wounded from one central Ohio (search) squad involved in a U.S. offensive near Iraq’s border with Syria (search). The squad was one of three belonging to the 1st Platoon of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, according to The …

BUCHAREST, Romania – Three Romanian journalists who were held hostage in Iraq for nearly two months arrived home aboard a military plane Monday, a day after their release. Television reporter Marie Jeanne Ion (search) and cameraman Sorin Miscoci (search), both of Prima TV, and Ovidiu Ohanesian (search), a reporter from …

Scientists are excited about a vitamin again. But unlike fads that sizzled and fizzled, the evidence this time is strong and keeps growing. If it bears out, it will challenge one of medicine’s most fundamental beliefs: that people need to coat themselves with sunscreen (search) whenever they’re in the sun. …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Conservative groups in California (search) say they will try to gather enough signatures to put an initiative banning gay marriage (search) on the ballot in 2006. The announcement came Tuesday after committees of state lawmakers rejected a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriages and strip away …