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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 …

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 …

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 …