LOS ANGELES – Movie-goers laid their money down on “21,” a gambling romp that was the weekend’s box-office high roller with a $23.7 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess as math geniuses who make a killing at Vegas’ blackjack tables, Sony’s …
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BEIJING – Beijing Olympic organizers voiced confidence Monday about security arrangements for the August Games, a day after a Communist Party official said authorities had foiled a plot by Islamic terrorists targeting the event. “An efficient Olympic security command system is in place,” Sun Weide, a spokesman for the organizing …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Suspected Kurdish rebels killed a civilian and were keeping another hostage in a Turkish province near the border with Syria, a local official said Friday according to state-run media. Rebels hiding in a mountainous area in the southern Hatay province killed the man after forcing him to …
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CHICAGO – Is it safe to have your arteries unclogged at a hospital that lacks heart surgeons who can operate if something goes wrong? Many states ban this except in emergencies like heart attacks. But more small hospitals are trying it in non-urgent cases, and the largest study ever done …
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Al Wynn, D-Md., will leave his seat in June to take a job at a law firm and give his Democratic successor a chance to get a running start on the job. Wynn already had lost his bid for re-election in Maryland’s Feb. 12 primary to Democratic …
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TRENTON, N.J. – The parents of a 19-year-old student whose body was found in a Pennsylvania landfill after a frantic, four-week search filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday accusing his college of not securing its trash-compacting system. The Superior Court lawsuit does not specify a damage amount in the death …
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – A new report shows Swedish men should not be honored for the country’s high rankings in surveys about gender equality in the home. According to the statistics, Swedish couples divided their household tasks more and more evenly during the 1990’s, but only because women did less work …
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This is a rush transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” March 14, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: This is a FOX News alert. Just moments ago Barack Obama — Obama responded to FOX News regarding the controversy surrounding his …
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WASHINGTON – The military is beefing up efforts to gather intelligence, fend off cyber-attacks and improve relations with other nations as part of a strategy for keeping the U.S. safe while fighting two wars, according to a Pentagon document. The four-page plan acknowledges there is still a significant risk that …
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DENVER – Travelers using Denver International Airport’s free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative. A report in The Denver Post says the airport is blocking Vanity Fair magazine’s Web site, the hipster site boingboing.net and others. Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon says officials decided to block …
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