WASHINGTON – In the final clashes of a year of partisan conflict, the Senate dealt defeat Wednesday to legislation allowing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but Republicans salvaged a $39.7 billion package of deficit cuts on Vice President Dick Cheney‘s tie-breaking vote. Legislation providing $29 billion in …
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LINCOLN, Neb. – This fish didn’t have a chance. A rainbow trout pulled out of Holmes Lake last weekend had double the chance to get hooked: It had two mouths. Clarence Olberding, 57, wasn’t just telling a fisherman’s fib when he called over another angler to look at the two-mouthed …
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LOS ANGELES – Christina Applegate and her husband, Johnathon Schaech, are calling it quits after four years of marriage. The couple have filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court. Their publicists, Ame Van Iden and Chuck James, confirmed the split Monday. “The decision is mutual,” they said in a …
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WASHINGTON – The top U.S. military commander in Iraq said Friday he would make recommendations in the next few weeks about troop withdrawals from Iraq, and he expects the force level will drop back to 138,000 by early February. That has been the usual number this year. Speaking from Iraq, …
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AMMAN, Jordan – Iraqi expatriates voting Tuesday for a parliament in their homeland said they want stability and an end to the violence in Iraq. But the voters — in 15 countries around the world — were as divided on how to get there as as their communities are back …
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WATERBURY, Vt. – A half dozen production lines operate 12 hours a day, cutting small filters and stuffing them into tiny cups, dropping in 2 or 3 grams of coffee and sealing them before whisking them into boxes. The scores of little coffee containers, known around Green Mountain Coffee Roasters …
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CHICAGO – Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) recorded its biggest shopping day of the year Friday, not Saturday as it had expected, the vice chairman of the world’s largest retailer said Tuesday. John Menzer, who heads Wal-Mart’s U.S. division, said more people than expected took Friday off from work and headed …
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WASHINGTON – The Army can’t account for $68 million in parts and tools shipped to contractors for repairs in 2004 because it doesn’t demand receipts, congressional auditors said Wednesday. “Although the (Defense Department) policy requires the military services to confirm receipt of all assets shipped to contractors, the Army is …
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Your roll of toilet paper is soon to be back in black. Fancy restrooms across Europe are now offering a chic new basic black shade of toilet paper, and many Web-savvy Australian shoppers are buying it online, according to Agence France-Presse. Earlier this year in Spain and Portugal, Portuguese paper …
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LONDON – A replica of Princess Diana‘s wedding dress sold at auction Wednesday for $175,000, twice its pre-sale estimate. The ivory silk taffeta dress went to an anonymous private buyer, said a spokesman for auctioneer Cooper Owen. The dress, complete with silk net petticoat, train one-third the length of the …
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