WASHINGTON – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (search) asserted Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would bring “a unique brand of experience” to the high court and that critics will feel comfortable when they get to know her. Gonzales, himself once considered a leading candidate for a vacancy there, said …
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WASHINGTON – Sales of existing U.S. homes were unchanged in September at a better-than-expected 7.28 million unit pace, as strong post-Katrina (search) sales in the South helped offset weaker activity elsewhere, the National Association of Realtors said on Tuesday. Sales of the previously owned homes were flat compared with August’s …
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – A standoff between Arizona police and two armed men in an apartment complex in suburban Phoenix (search) on Sunday afternoon reportedly ended when police used tear gas to take the suspects alive. Police had earlier cut power to the apartment complex in Glendale (search) where two armed …
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WASHINGTON – Republican and Democratic senators said Thursday that they are fed up with China’s trade practices, singling out Beijing’s currency manipulation, theft of intellectual property and bans on certain U.S. imports. All this, the lawmakers said, fuels an explosive U.S. trade deficit with China (search). In 1994, “our trade …
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MADRID, Spain – Police arrested 16 Islamic terror suspects in raids in several cities, including 11 men accused of having ties to Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi‘s (search) group Al Qaeda in Iraq and recruiting people for attacks there, officials said Wednesday. The 11 were part of a support group for a Syrian-based …
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BOSTON – Nearly 200 illegal immigrants who were ordered deported for committing crimes were arrested during a six-day undercover sweep across New England (search), federal authorities said. Dozens of federal, state and local law-enforcement officers began a search Friday for the roughly 200 people targeted in the sweep; by Wednesday …
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NEW YORK – “The Light in the Piazza,” a tale of young love in Old Europe, took five Tony Awards Sunday, including best score for composer Adam Guettel (search), as Broadway celebrated the best of a busy theater season. “This is the just the most incredible day of my entire …
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ORANJESTAD, Aruba – A missing Alabama honors student went to an Aruban beach and engaged in passionate kissing with a Dutch teen in a car the night she disappeared, according to testimony from two of the boy’s friends. All three young men were arrested Thursday and will appear before a …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah (search) guerrillas attacked an Israeli base in a disputed part of the south Lebanon (search) border on Wednesday, and Israel responded with an airstrike. Israel said it suffered casualties in the exchange. The guerrillas attacked three Israeli positions in Chebaa Farms (search), an area where the …
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio – Lightning struck a softball field Wednesday night at a prison, killing one inmate and injuring five prisoners and two guards, authorities said. The inmates were playing softball when the lightning struck, said Tim Brunsman (search), warden at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution (search). A storm was moving through …
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