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About 10 million U.S. kids will head to summer camp in the coming weeks, and there’s new advice to help them have a safe, rewarding experience. Guidelines published in June’s issue of Pediatrics include a lot of common sense, like proper training for camp staff and openness on the part …

TOKYO – A Japanese government food safety panel expressed concern Saturday about a second confirmed U.S. mad cow case, raising speculation that Tokyo (search) may delay a resumption of American beef imports. Taiwan (search), meanwhile, reimposed the ban on U.S. beef that it had lifted just two months ago. Japan …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Cabinet voted Sunday to leave Gaza (search) after 38 years of occupation, the last formality before the handover of the teeming coastal area to Palestinian control. But the withdrawal, expected to be completed early Monday, was marred by dispute and uncertainty. The Palestinians said they would boycott …

The number of American women being screened regularly for breast cancer may be lower than has been previously thought. An examination of a New Hampshire-based registry found that about one in three eligible women had never had a mammogram or had not had one in more than two years. Most …

NEW ORLEANS – When night falls, Charlie Hackett climbs the steps to his boarded-up window, takes down the plywood, grabs his 12-gauge shotgun and waits. He is waiting for looters and troublemakers, for anyone thinking his neighborhood has been abandoned like so many others across the city. Two doors down, …

ATLANTA – The woman who says she gained the trust of suspected courthouse gunman Brian Nichols (search) by talking about her faith in God discloses in a new book that she gave him methamphetamine during the hostage ordeal. Ashley Smith (search) did not share that detail with authorities after she …

NEW YORK – Less than a week after Renee Zellweger (search) filed for an annulment from Kenny Chesney (search), the country music star assured fans, “I’ll be OK.” “I’m all right. I’m good. There have been better times, but I’ll be OK,” Chesney told Country Weekly magazine for its Oct. …

BURBANK, Calif. – It looks like Jay Leno’s (search) celebrity-autographed motorcycle (search) has raised nearly a half-million dollars for victims of Hurricane Katrina (search). Bidding for the bike closed on the eBay auction Web site at 5 p.m. Thursday, and Leno announced during the taping of Thursday’s “Tonight Show” that …

LOS ANGELES – The hands that were replaced with cutlery in “Edward Scissorhands” and wore gloves in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” are now immortalized in concrete. Johnny Depp (search) signed his name and placed his handprints and footprints in wet concrete in front of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (search) …