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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration said Monday it is freezing a scheduled 10 percent fee cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients, giving Congress time to act to prevent the cuts when lawmakers return from a July 4 recess. Physicians have been running ads hinting that as a result of …

YPSILANTI, Mich. – Eastern Michigan University has agreed to pay $350,000 in fines over the school’s cover-up of the rape and killing of a student in her dorm room. The Ann Arbor News reports the agreement announced Friday by the Ypsilanti school sets the fines lower than the $357,500 proposed …

NEW YORK – Minutes after the NBA draft started, Derrick Rose learned he was headed home. Long after it ended, O.J. Mayo and Kevin Love were on the move. A night that began with the expected pick ended with a stunning trade, which had two top-five selections changing teams as …

BANGKOK, Thailand – More than 1 million people still don’t have adequate food, water or shelter a month after a devastating cyclone swept through Burma, also known as Myanmar, and it’s not clear what the military junta is doing to help them, the United Nations said Tuesday. Humanitarian groups say …

WASHINGTON – The Senate has confirmed President Bush’s new housing secretary, elevating Small Business Administration Administrator Steven Preston to be the administration’s point man on the slumping housing market and subprime lending crisis. Preston is likely to be lead negotiator as Congress and the White House work on legislation to …

LOS ANGELES – “The Incredible Hulk” is seeing a lot of green after bruising its way to the top spot at the box-office over the weekend. The second recent flick about the scientist who turns into the muscle-bound Hulk when angered took in 54.5 million dollars in its debut weekend. …

NEW YORK – Robert De Niro’s planned $43 million hotel in downtown Manhattan features a handmade brick exterior, Carrara marble bathtubs — and a luxurious penthouse, which has raised the hackles of preservationists who say he flouted the rules with that top-floor suite. The penthouse atop the seven-story hotel does …

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The chief Palestinian peace negotiator on Wednesday cast serious doubt on U.S. President George W. Bush’s goal of brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by the end of the year, saying it would take a “miracle” to wrap up an agreement. In another sign of frustration with …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iraq’s prime minister sought to ease Iranian fears over a proposed security deal with the U.S. Sunday, saying his government will not allow Iraq to become a launching pad for an attack on its neighbor. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a …

PHILADELPHIA – Police issued arrest warrants Monday for four Temple University students charged with beating a man outside the former location of a Jewish fraternity, and categorized the attack as a hate crime. Investigators said the students used anti-Semitic slurs during the beating Feb. 15 outside the former Alpha Epsilon …