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KEY WEST, Fla. – Even with many Americans in conflict abroad, it might raise a few eyebrows to hear that Navy flyers based in Key West are also busy, fighting against an enemy that’s already invaded seven times this year. The good news is that their foe is based in …

LUVERNE, Minn. – Police who were alerted by a passenger’s cell phone call intercepted a passenger bus and arrested an 18-year-old woman who had been holding the driver at knifepoint, authorities said. The woman was disarmed by the driver and two passengers before the State Patrol and other officers stopped …

WASHINGTON – The federal government ran a surplus (search) of $8.67 billion in January and the shortfall for the first four months of the budget year is running 17 percent below the red ink of a year ago, the Treasury Department (search) said Thursday. In its monthly budget statement, the …

MIAMI – Dolby Laboratories Inc. (search) , a household name in cutting-edge audio technology for 40 years, is slated to become a public company next week when it lists on the New York Stock Exchange (search). Dolby’s initial public offering, expected on Wednesday, headlines a week of slim pickings for …

As many as 2,000 people got bird flu (search) during the 2003 Netherlands outbreak, a Dutch investigation shows. That’s way up from the 69 cases previously reported. Even more ominous is the finding that person-to-person spread was vastly more efficient than ever before seen with bird flu. Nearly 60 percent …

NEWRY, Northern Ireland – The issue of homosexuality threatens to split the Anglican Communion (search) and the rift cannot be resolved easily, the archbishop of Canterbury said Friday, a day after church leaders asked the U.S. and Canadian churches to temporarily withdraw from a key council. Rowan Williams (search), the …

See you in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… The firestorm over University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill’s controversial remarks about 9/11 victims continues… Now the governor of Wisconsin is involved! We’ll have the latest No Spin analysis …

NEW YORK – U.S. stocks dropped Tuesday as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) warned that high oil prices are taking a toll on consumer spending, and the government said surging energy costs drove the consumer price index up in July. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 72 points at 10,562. …

NEW YORK – A 25-year-old former America Online (TWX) employee who admitted he became a cyberspace “outlaw” when he sold all 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses to spammers was sentenced Wednesday to a year and three months in prison. “I know I’ve done something very wrong,” the soft-spoken …

TOLEDO, Ill. – A man is accused of sending an e-mail bomb threat to the headquarters of an Islamic civil rights group, the Department of Justice (search) said. Max Oakley (search), of Toledo, allegedly sent an e-mail on July 29 threatening to blow up the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic …