BOSTON – A Kentucky (search) widow, moved by the cries of grief she heard in reports about the tsunami disaster in south Asia, invited her entire town to a New Year’s Eve bash to raise money for the victims. In California, a college offered free basketball tickets, with a gift …
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WASHINGTON – Taxpayers would be able to claim deductions for contributions to tsunami relief efforts (search) on their 2004 tax returns under legislation introduced Tuesday by the chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. The bill, sponsored by Finance Committee (search) Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Max …
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A 9-year-old boy in Vietnam has died of bird flu (search), bringing the number of people in the country killed by the virus to 21, a doctor said Wednesday. The boy from the southern Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh was admitted to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho …
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A Flint, Mich., car owner deserves credit for bravery, and maybe for being a bit nuts. The unnamed man was carjacked at around 7 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 6, police told WJRT-TV of Flint. Instead of letting the robber get away, the man grabbed his Ford Mustang’s (search) rear spoiler …
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SAVANNAH, Ga. – A mechanic with nine years in the Army, including a role in the assault on Baghdad (search), has refused to return to Iraq, claiming “you just don’t know how bad it is.” Sgt. Kevin Benderman (search), 40, said he became morally opposed to war after seeing it …
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WASHINGTON – Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales (search) is the wrong man to be the nation’s top law enforcement official given his participation in crafting Bush administration policies during the war on terror, Democrats said Wednesday. But Republicans still had enough votes to push the former White House counsel through …
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Parents should not give cell phones to children aged eight or under, the chairman of an official study into the safety of the phones said Tuesday. Sir William Stewart, chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board (search), or NRPB, said there was a growing amount of research that showed using …
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Here’s what is on tap for Friday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET President Bush’s inaugural address (search) focused on the need to spread freedom throughout the world. Was his speech well taken? We’ll get a fair and balanced debate from political strategists Cheri Jacobus and Eric …
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MIAMI – Popular humorist Dave Barry (search) said Sunday’s column for The Miami Herald (search) was his last — maybe. Barry, who has written humor columns for three decades, including 22 years at the Herald, says he’s holding out the possibility of a return. But for now, he says, “I …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc.’s (YHOO) shares tumbled Wednesday as the company suffered a hangover from second-quarter earnings that didn’t measure up to analysts’ lofty expectations despite a more than six-fold improvement in its profit. Yahoo reported earnings Tuesday after the market closed. Its shares fell $4.20, or …
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