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NEW YORK – When it comes to canceling a trip altogether due to the weather, hotels and airlines try to be accommodating. Hotels generally allow cancellation 72 hours in advance with no penalty but may allow you to cancel closer to your arrival date if a major storm is predicted. …

CAMP DAVID, Md. – Iran has “weeks, not months” to suspend its nuclear weapons research and accept a U.S.-backed package of incentives, President Bush warned on Friday. “If they choose not to come back to the suspend verifiably, there must be a consequence. There must be a sense of urgency …

WINDHOEK, Namibia – Britney Spears, through her press representative, denied a report Friday that she was considering a Namibian birth for her next baby. “Not true,” Spears’ New York-based publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. Zelnik did not immediately elaborate. Earlier in the day, …

U.S. combat soldiers in Iraq are more than twice as likely to suffer migraine headaches as the general American population. That news was reported by a military doctor at the 48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society in Los Angeles. While about one in seven Americans suffers migraines …

Two CIA stories caught my attention Friday. First, the Valerie Plame story pops up again, this time with a report that Scooter Libby — facing trial — might have gotten the OK to leak Plame’s name from superiors. His immediate superior is Dick Cheney, of course. I caused some trouble …

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon on Friday recommended reducing the nation’s nuclear missile stockpile by 10 percent, but left open where the reductions would be made. In its Quadrennial Defense Review, the Pentagon said the reductions would start in fiscal year 2007. Five hundred Minuteman III missiles are based at Minot …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday’s session are Agilent Technologies Inc., Cendant Corp. and W.R. Berkley Corp. Agilent Technologies Inc. (A) is expected to report fiscal first-quarter earnings of 30 cents a share, according to analysts polled by Thomson First …

WASHINGTON – As President Bush prepared to address Congress, some members of the House began calling for his impeachment — a call that has been growing over the last few months, when only the far fringes of the American left called for his ouster. On Tuesday, eight-term California Democratic Rep. …

JACKSONVILLE, Fla – The Navy suspended flight operations Friday on the USS John F. Kennedy, upsetting Florida lawmakers in Congress who want to keep the aircraft carrier based in the state. The Navy has been trying to scuttle the 38-year-old carrier for about a year, but Congress passed a bill …

One New York attorney took starting off with a clean slate a little bit too far. On Feb. 13, a homeless man was ID’d as Raymond Power Jr., 57, a New York lawyer who had been missing for almost seven months after suffering amnesia, the Chicago police department said. Power …