WASHINGTON – Editor’s note: The following article is the first in a two-part series on the impact of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, signed into law earlier this month. On Aug. 11, just three days after President Bush signed the first major piece of national energy legislation in more …
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Teaching “intelligent design” to high school biology students violates laws prohibiting the endorsement of religion in public schools, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The ruling in Pennsylvania is a major defeat for proponents of the controversial alternative theory about the origins of life. “The evidence at trial demonstrates that ID …
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Michael Jackson | ‘The Sopranos’ | The Rolling Stones Jacko: Old Friends Can’t Save Him It almost looked like Australians Brett Barnes and Wade Robson were going to save Michael Jackson yesterday. His old pals showed up in the Santa Maria courtroom to refute testimony that they’d been molested by …
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To watch “The Talking Points Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. War and peace in the age of terrorism. That is the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. Former president carter has made it quite clear that he believes the Bush administration …
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MEXICO CITY – Police are randomly checking people for guns at Mexico City’s 175 subway stations after a man opened fire inside a crowded station, killing two people and wounding five others. City officials say that more than 1,600 city police officers and 3,000 security officials have been assigned to …
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OKLAHOMA CITY – A 14-year-old Oklahoma boy was tied up for more than four years and locked in a bedroom closet where his mother and a male companion starved, beat and burned him repeatedly, authorities say. Oklahoma City police Sgt. Gary Knight said Tuesday that investigators still are interviewing people …
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ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi had his first meeting Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Italian leader was implicated in a sex scandal that broke last spring. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi says the pope spoke briefly with Berlusconi on Saturday at Rome’s Ciampino Airport. Lombardi says …
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MIR ALI, Pakistan – A missile fired from a suspected unmanned U.S. drone slammed into a car in a Pakistani tribal region close to the Afghan border Monday, killing four people, intelligence officials and residents said. The apparent American strike was the latest of more than 50 in the region …
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month, saying Monday that world peace depends on safeguarding God’s creation. He issued the admonition in a speech to ambassadors accredited to the Vatican, an annual appointment …
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BERLIN – Police say a pack of wild pigs popped under a fence onto a stretch of the German autobahn, shutting the highway down for hours. Police in Lower Saxony said Thursday that at about 2:30 a.m. the pigs apparently dug under a fence designed to keep them and other …
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