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There is growing evidence that vitamin D helps protect against colorectal cancer, and now a group of researchers who have long studied the vitamin say the same is true for breast cancer and ovarian cancer. In a new analysis, the researchers contend that taking 1,000 international units (IU) of vitamin …

WASHINGTON – Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took the administration’s baton Thursday, making the case that “relentless progress” is happening on the ground in Iraq. Speaking at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, Pace explained that the United States would not be better off …

LONDON – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was admitted to hospital Wednesday after feeling faint, and doctors said she was in stable condition and resting. London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said the 80-year-old former leader, who governed Britain from 1979 to 1990, had undergone a number of tests and …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” December 1, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. DAVID ASMAN, GUEST HOST: A newly formed group is battling against the war on Christmas. Its founder and members, they are not gentiles. They are Jews. The group is …

WASHINGTON – A Democratic senator threatened to filibuster an agreement to extend the USA Patriot Act after congressional negotiators announced Thursday that they had reached a deal on the controversial measure. “I will do everything I can, including a filibuster, to stop this Patriot Act conference report, which does not …

A storm spread a blanket of snow up to a foot thick across much of the Northeast on Friday, snarling commutes, closing schools and piling up the flakes so fast that shovel crews could barely keep up. At least three fatal crashes were blamed on the storm, including a New …

SALT LAKE CITY – An Amtrak train collided with a semitrailer on Wednesday in southeastern Utah, killing the truck driver and injuring several Amtrak passengers, authorities said. The California Zephyr was carrying 119 passengers from Emeryville, Calif., to Chicago when it hit the truck at a train crossing just south …

MOSS LANDING, Calif. – Researchers said they have uncovered evidence that some mother squids nurse their eggs for months after laying them, helping to disprove a long-held theory that all female squids simply abandoned new offspring on the ocean floor. Mother squids of the Gonatus onyx species were found to …

TORONTO – A Canadian terror suspect confessed to buying guns and rocket launchers for Al Qaeda to use against U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to a court filing Monday. In an court affidavit in Toronto, where Abdullah Khadr appeared at a preliminary hearing, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corp. Richard Jenkins …

NEW YORK – Women are now as likely to use the Internet as men — about two-thirds of both genders — yet a new study shows that gaps remain in what each sex does online. American men who go online are more likely than women to check the weather, the …