WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (search) spoke by video to the first “Justice Sunday” evangelical rally in April, but he wasn’t invited to address “Justice Sunday II,” even though it’s in his home state of Tennessee. Since the first rally, the potential 2008 presidential candidate has angered the …
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See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on! A killer comes clean. The man who murdered Jessica Lunsford (search) contacts Bill. It’s the chilling letter that describes how he stalked, kidnapped and brutally killed an innocent …
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WASHINGTON – Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said on Monday that the total liabilities of MCI Inc. (MCIP) could reduce Verizon’s purchase price for the business telecommunications company by up to $70 million, or 21 cents per MCI share. Verizon, the largest U.S. telecommunications company, agreed earlier this year to buy …
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COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – The man suspected of kidnapping two children after killing three people at a home in Idaho appears in public today for the first time since his arrest. Registered sex offender Joseph Duncan (search) is scheduled to enter a plea this afternoon on charges that he kidnapped …
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WASHINGTON – Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (search) was hospitalized briefly with a fever on Thursday, the second emergency treatment for the 80-year-old ailing justice in two months. Rehnquist was treated and released from Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., the same hospital where he spent two nights for observation …
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Those biweekly payment programs cut back the amount of interest you ultimately pay. But are they worth the fees? Probably not. We aren’t big fans of those “convenient” biweekly mortgage programs. Why? Because you’re usually paying a fee for what would otherwise be a free service. The advantage of paying …
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I’m considering rolling over my 401(k) into a variable annuity. Does this make sense? The short answer? No. We aren’t big fans of variable annuities (to see why, click here), except in very, very specific situations. This is certainly not one of them. Our general complaint with variable annuities (which …
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It has long been believed that complex genetic interactions are at play in autism, and new research offers some of the first concrete evidence that this is the case. For the first time, researchers have identified an interaction between two specific genes that increases the risk that a child will …
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WASHINGTON – By month’s end, federal health officials will decide whether to let women buy emergency contraception without a prescription — and if so, if the morning-after pill will be treated more like aspirin off the shelf or like cigarettes. Regardless of how the Food and Drug Administration (search) ends …
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ORANJESTAD, Aruba – Two Surinamese brothers who had been detained and released in the Natalee Holloway (search) case were arrested again Friday after “new facts and circumstances” emerged, adding yet another twist in the mysterious disappearance of a vacationing American teenager. Satish and Deepak Kalpoe (search) were arrested on suspicion …
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