AT&T Inc., the nation’s largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive. The phone company thus joins other major ISPs that either go beyond legal requirements or interpret their …
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PARIS – Someone armed with a BB gun shot at people near a nursery school in the French city of Lyon on Friday, slightly injuring 11 adults but no children, the city’s public prosecutor said. Police surrounded the area, but prosecutor Xavier Richaud told reporters that initial attempts to locate …
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SANTA ANA, Calif. – A fugitive facing a life sentence for attempted murder has been arrested in Southern California nearly two decades after escaping from juvenile hall. The Orange County district attorney’s office says 36-year-old Baldomero Johnny Diaz was arrested Wednesday in Riverside County. Diaz was convicted in 1990 of …
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NEW YORK – Young children who watch TV for more than 2 hours a day run the risk of developing asthma before their 12th birthday, according to a study of more than 3,000 kids whose health and habits were tracked from birth. “In children who had no wheezing symptoms up …
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Jordan Gilmer has a degenerative condition that eventually will leave him completely blind. But as a child, his teachers did not emphasize Braille, the system of reading in which a series of raised dots signify letters of the alphabet. Instead, they insisted he use what little vision he had to …
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RIVERVIEW, Mich. – A U.S. veteran who returned to Iraq as a civilian contractor was shot to death while protecting American diplomats in Iraq, his employer said Sunday. Justin Pope, 25, died after being shot late Wednesday or early Thursday in Kirkuk, said Douglas Ebner, a spokesman for Falls Church, …
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A federal judge in Florida has declared a banker and lawyer from Switzerland who were indicted on fraud charges as fugitives from justice. U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley signed the order against banker Hansruedi Schumacher and attorney Matthias Rickenbach on Thursday in West Palm …
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This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” November 30, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Meanwhile, to something that could dampen shoppers’ mood, sticker shock when buying health insurance — the Congressional Budget Office just …
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MUNICH – A witness at the trial of John Demjanjuk on Tuesday described his deportation in a crowded freight car to the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp, where the retired auto worker is alleged to have been a guard. Jules Schelvis, 88, is one of dozens of victims’ relatives who have …
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ROME – Police captured Cosa Nostra’s No. 2 in a raid in Sicily and nabbed another Mafia fugitive strolling down a Milan street Saturday, as authorities crossed more names off the nation’s most wanted list, Italy’s interior minister said. Convicted Mafioso Gianni Nicchi, captured in the Sicilian city of Palermo, …
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