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Playing on Apple’s past “Switch” ad campaign, which was aimed at getting Windows users to migrate to Apple’s Mac OS X-based computers, a few longtime Mac and open-source gurus are vocally publicizing their switch away from Apple’s platform to more open-source solutions. Though the practical impact is impossible to gauge, …

CAIRO, Egypt – American archaeologists have uncovered a pharaonic-era tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the first uncovered there since King Tutankhamun’s in 1922, Egypt’s antiquities chief announced. The 18th Dynasty tomb included five mummies in intact sarcophagi with colored funerary masks along with more than 20 large storage …

NEW ORLEANS – Twelve thousand families left homeless by last year’s storms will lose their federally funded hotel privileges Monday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Saturday. This will be the second wave of evacuees weaned off the federally-sponsored hotel stays within two weeks. Last week, the occupants of roughly …

LOS ANGELES – Jay Mohr and Nikki Cox are engaged, Cox’s publicist announced Friday. The couple plan to marry next winter, publicist Alisha Mahon said. Cox plays Mary Connell on the NBC series “Las Vegas.” She and Mohr, host of “Last Comic Standing,” met when Mohr guest-starred on the Sin …

NEW YORK – RadioShack Corp. (RSH), whose chief executive officer admitted this week to lying about his academic record, on Friday said quarterly profit plunged 62 percent after a switch in wireless providers led to a large inventory write-down. The consumer electronics retailer, which is hiring legal counsel to investigate …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” January 31, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Who will take home Oscars this year? Let’s ask Johnny Avello, Wynn Las Vegas director of Race and Sports Operations who’s also placing odds on this …

NEW YORK – Richard Bright, a character actor who appeared in all three “Godfather” movies and more recently on “The Sopranos,” was struck and killed by a bus, police said. Bright, 68, was hit by a private Academy Bus as he crossed the street at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in …

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. – The state on Tuesday postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer amid a court battle over the state’s method of lethal injection and the role doctors may play in the death chamber. State officials notified the federal courts they would be unable to comply with …

This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” February 3, 2006, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Well, what you don’t know about all sorts of theft, including I.D. theft, could ruin your life, too. If my next guest is right, we are all at …

GENEVA – The WTO has ruled that the EU the international trade rules by stopping imports of genetically modified foods, officials said Tuesday. The preliminary judgment by a World Trade Organization panel concluded that the European Union had an effective ban on biotech foods for six years from 1998, said …