MANSFIELD, Ohio – A man who was adopted as a child and spent the past year researching his ancestry discovered that his biological father is on Ohio’s death row for killing a corrections officer and two others in the state’s worst prison riot. Sean Baker, 41, met his father, George …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Bolivian President Evo Morales says that Fidel Castro appears to have lost weight, but that the ailing former Cuban leader remains mentally alert. Morales met with Castro on Thursday during a brief visit to Cuba. “I saw him looking thin, but very lucid,” said Morales, speaking in …
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BEIJING – The top U.S. envoy to nuclear talks with North Korea conceded Wednesday that the communist nation’s disarmament would be difficult to achieve this year, clouding the future of the process given the looming change in the White House. “Completing everything by the end of the year will be …
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This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from May 6, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) NEW YORK: People prepare. They work hard. They do their best. Life is unpredictable, the …
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WASHINGTON – The Bush administration repeatedly ignored corruption at the highest levels within the Iraqi government and kept secret potentially embarrassing information so as not to undermine its relationship with Baghdad, according to two former State Department employees. Arthur Brennan, who briefly served in Baghdad as head of the department’s …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this …
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Podcasting, coined by joining the word “broadcasting” with the Apple iPod digital music player, is making audio files available online in a way that allows special software to automatically download the files for listening at the user’s convenience. While podcasting was named for the iPod, you do not have to …
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Want your child to attend an Ivy League college? Breast-feed them and they just might be able to. A new study, published in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, showed that children who experienced long-term, exclusive breast-feeding scored higher on intelligence tests than children who were given formula …
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WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of the June 22, 2008, edition of “FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace”: “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” HOST CHRIS WALLACE: And we’re back now discussing the presidential campaign with Obama adviser Tom Daschle and McCain supporter Tom Ridge. Before we turn to other …
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WASHINGTON – A House committee chairman on Friday threatened to hold the head of the EPA and a White House budget official in contempt of Congress for not handing over documents about new smog requirements and a decision blocking California greenhouse gas limits. Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman of California, chairman …
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