BOSTON – A British man accused of killing his wife and infant daughter in their suburban Boston home arrived in Massachusetts on Wednesday afternoon to face murder charges. Neil Entwistle‘s plane landed just before 5:30 p.m. at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, northwest of Boston. Entwistle was handcuffed and …
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Like pouring Drano directly on a clog, doctors dramatically improved stroke survival by dripping a clot-dissolving drug right onto a blockage choking off the brain’s blood supply. Many patients given this experimental treatment had stunning recoveries within a day, often without the speech loss and paralysis that …
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WASHINGTON – Roughly 13 million people, or about one-fifth of the nation’s Medicaid beneficiaries, will face new or increased co-payments and premiums for doctors visits, non-emergency hospital visits and prescription drugs under soon-to-be-enacted budget cuts. Those payments and premiums will be set by individual states. Nine million of these beneficiaries …
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LOS ANGELES – A day after Space Adventures announced it was in a venture to develop rocket ships for suborbital flights, the company said Friday it plans to build a $265 million spaceport in the United Arab Emirates. The commercial spaceport would be based in Ras Al-Khaimah near the southern …
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The following is a partial transcript of the Feb. 26, 2006, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Even though the presidential primaries are two years away, our next guest has been racking up frequent flyer miles to Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Joining us …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Police fired at inmates trying to push down a gate at Kabul’s main jail as about 2,000 prisoners resumed rioting Tuesday after a 24-hour pause in violence. One inmate died and three were wounded in the renewed fighting, police said. The clashes restarted after negotiations broke down, …
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A high-profile privacy watchdog group has a terse warning for business and consumers: Do not use the new version of Google Desktop. The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation said a new feature added to Google Desktop on Feb. 9 is a serious privacy and security risk because of the way a …
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RENO, Nev. – Parents of a Reno eighth-grader are ready to sue the school district, claiming a spelling bee judge unjustly ousted their daughter from a competition. Sara Beckman spelled “discernible” correctly during a spelling bee yesterday at the University of Nevada, Reno. But the judge rang the bell anyway. …
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The Dutch foreign minister told Parliament on Thursday that he heard in Serbia that war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic is sick and considering surrender. Ben Bot, briefing lawmakers about a Monday trip to Belgrade, said an unnamed Serbian official had told him Mladic was ailing and …
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On April 25, at 12:01 a.m. EST, Microsoft opened the Internet Explorer (IE) 7 Beta 2 floodgates — and the phone support lines. Microsoft posted for download from the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web site Beta 2 of IE 7 for Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 2 customers. It also simultaneously …
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