SPACE CENTER, Houston – NASA’s new administrator and Texas Republican Rep. Tom DeLay (search) said Tuesday the space agency will have the necessary funding to implement President Bush’s vision to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars. “We have the money to do good things,” said Michael Griffin, …
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LOS ANGELES – A Muslim woman who said she ordered a Koran through Amazon.com (search) only to find profanity and religious slurs written inside asked Wednesday for an apology and a full investigation by the online retailer. Azza Basarudin (search), 30, said she received the Koran by mail on May …
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BOSTON – Police said a thief used secretly installed bank card readers and spy cameras to record passwords and steal at least $400,000 from more than 400 ATM users over the past two years. Ioan Emil Codarcea (search), 35, was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on charges including identity fraud, …
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WASHINGTON – A senior Al Qaeda (search) operative was killed by a missile fired from an unmanned CIA (search) Predator aircraft near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border earlier this week, ABC News reported Friday. FOX News could not confirm the report. Intelligence officials, who were not identified in the report, said Al …
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NEW YORK – New York authorities on Thursday filed a civil lawsuit against American International Group Inc. (AIG) and two former top executives of the insurance company, saying they committed fraud and manipulated its books to deceive regulators and investors. In the first legal action by regulators concerning AIG’s recently …
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WASHINGTON – A centrist Republican senator who opposes President Bush’s proposal of private investment accounts (search) for Social Security is endorsing the president’s call for a change in calculating benefits that would cut future checks for all but low-income workers. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (search) of Rhode Island, part of a …
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NEW YORK – Oil prices rose more than $1 a barrel on Monday, reversing course from last week, when prices declined by more than 10 percent due to rising U.S. supplies and slower economic growth. Light, sweet crude for June delivery climbed $1.20 to $50.92 a barrel on the New …
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CHICAGO – Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley (search) said Wednesday that new disclosures of corruption in city government, including allegations that payoff money found its way into his campaign fund, have left him “hurt, embarrassed, disappointed.” “Clearly, I’m not proud or pleased,” Daley told a news conference, his first since …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – A car bomb exploded next to a U.S. Army convoy in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, while another American died in a drive-by shooting a half-hour later. Their deaths pushed the number of U.S. troops killed in three days to 14, part of a surge in …
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SAN DIEGO – Military prosecutors rested their case Wednesday against a Navy SEAL (search) lieutenant accused of joining his men as they beat a hooded and handcuffed suspected Iraqi insurgent. The detainee died shortly after the SEALs handed him over to the CIA (search), and Lt. Andrew K. Ledford is …
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