TEL AVIV, Israel – Sharon Stone is ready to do her part for Mideast peace: The “Basic Instinct” actress said Wednesday she “would kiss just about anybody” to end the Israel-Arab conflict. She arrived in Israel on Tuesday for a five-day trip sponsored by the Peres Center for Peace, founded …
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LOS ANGELES – NASA on Thursday canceled a mission to visit two asteroids five months after the program was told to stand down because of cost overruns and technical problems. The cancellation is the latest setback for NASA, which has been forced to delay science missions to focus on developing …
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SELMER, Tenn. – The pastor’s wife accused of shooting her husband to death was formally charged with first-degree murder at her arraignment hearing on Monday. Mary Winkler, 32, did not enter a plea. She is accused of killing 31-year-old Matthew Winkler, the preacher at the Fourth Street Church of Christ …
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LOS ANGELES – George Lopez has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lopez, star of ABC‘s “George Lopez,” was joined by his wife, Ann, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the ceremony Wednesday. “I remember being 15, and walking up and down (the Walk of Fame) …
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My article on Republicans marrying the war on terror with the war in Iraq struck a cord with many of you. You are tired of name calling and shifting platforms and what you see as disingenuous politicians. My point in the article was not to criticize Bush’s policy necessarily, but …
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NEW YORK – About 4.7 million Cingular Wireless subscribers with older phones will have to pay $5 extra each month as the company tries to prod them to get new handsets so it can devote its entire network to one type of signal. The new surcharge, unique among the major …
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KNOXVILLE, Tennessee – The most powerful supercomputer available for general scientific research in the United States has doubled its speed, officials said Friday. The 54-cabinet Cray XT3 supercomputer at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been upgraded from 25 teraflops to 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second, …
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MIAMI – Ricky Martin will be honored as the Latin Recording Academy‘s person of the year for his accomplishments as an entertainer and humanitarian. The 34-year-old Puerto Rican pop star will receive the honor at a dinner and concert in New York City on Nov. 1. A portion of the …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – More than 100 people were killed by flooding Sunday in a town in eastern Ethiopia, a government official said. As many as 10,000 people fled Dire Dawa and surrounding areas after flash floods tore through the town early Sunday, said Sisay Tadesse, a spokesman for the …
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PHOENIX – The trial of two men accused in a string of random late night shootings will remain in Phoenix, for now. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James H. Keppel rejected a motion from lawyers for Dale S. Hausner to move the trial outside the county. His arrest Aug. 3 …
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