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ALSTEAD, N.H. – Where Sally and Tim Canfield’s home once stood, there is only open land. Their home was washed away by floodwaters, and two days after the rains subsided, their family found no trace of them. Rescue crews and police dogs searched rivers and woods Tuesday for the Canfields …

NEW YORK – A Taliban-linked drug lord who allegedly sought to poison U.S. streets with millions of dollars of heroin in a deadly “American jihad” has become the first person extradited from Afghanistan (search) to face federal charges, officials said Monday. Haji Baz Mohammad (search), one of the world’s “most …

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (search) spoke to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (search) on Sunday, and the two men agreed to hold a summit soon, Sharon’s office said. Sharon and Abbas were tentatively scheduled to meet Sunday, but the summit was canceled after Israel launched an offensive against Palestinian …

WASHINGTON – Big Bird and National Public Radio (search) won a reprieve Thursday as the House restored $100 million that had been proposed as a budget cut for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (search). The 284-140 vote demonstrated the enduring political strength of public broadcasting, whose supporters rallied behind popular …

VIENNA, Austria – The United States, the European Union (search) and Australia are pressuring Saudi Arabia (search) to allow U.N. inspectors access to the kingdom to verify it has no nuclear assets, according to a confidential EU document obtained by The Associated Press. The Saudis have so far defied the …

WASHINGTON – The number of Americans seeking first-time unemployment aid (search) rose slightly last week after a sharp drop that came on the back of a holiday-shortened week, a government report showed Thursday. Jobless claims edged up 1,000 to 333,000 in the week ended June 11, from the prior week’s …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Suspected Taliban (search) militants gunned down an Afghan working on a U.S.-funded electoral project, officials said Sunday in the first killing of a worker linked to landmark legislative polls scheduled for September. Authorities, meanwhile, revealed the names of 2,884 Afghans hoping to contest the parliamentary elections — …

LOS ANGELES – Good luck trying to get a serious answer out of Brad Pitt (search), especially regarding the topic of Angelina Jolie, (search) during promotional stops for their new movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” (search) The eagerly anticipated spy vs. spy flick comes out today following months of rumors …

This is a partial transcript from “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” June 28, 2005, that was edited for clarity. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: So, maybe, just maybe oil is on its way down after hitting $60-plus a barrel yesterday. The price of crude, as I indicated, dropping more than $2. So, …

ATLANTA – After a decade and a half of spending more time on the police blotter than the pop charts, Bobby Brown (search) wants the world to know he’s not really a bad boy. “They’ve made my life out to be problems, problems, problems,” said Brown, who spent the 1980s …