NEW YORK – Prosecutors say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse was not shy about making his presence known on the Maersk Alabama, brazenly tearing through the ship in a way that belied his young age and skinny, 5-foot-2 frame. He was the first to board the ship, he fired a shot at …
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15 November
Attorney Insists Nurse Did Not Inject Patients With Bleach
LUFKIN, Texas – A former nurse charged with injecting 10 patients with bleach at a dialysis clinic is being made a scapegoat by the medical facility, her attorney said Thursday. Kimberly Saenz, 35, was charged last week with one count of capital murder and five counts of aggravated assault for …
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15 November
Taliban: Pakistani Politicians Not Backing Swat Deal Are Abandoning Islam
ISLAMABAD – Pakistani lawmakers passed a resolution Monday urging that the president sign a regulation that imposes Islamic rule in a northwestern valley in exchange for peace with the Taliban. Meanwhile, authorities announced the arrest of a fifth suspect in the deadly siege of the Indian city of Mumbai last …
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15 November
Skipping Graduation and President Obama
This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” May 12, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN FOX NEWS HOST: You’re going live to Notre Dame, where a controversy is smothering (ph) the Catholic university’s upcoming big day. Five …
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15 November
Body of Pregnant Teen Found Dumped in a Florida Pine Grove
DAVENPORT, Fla. – The body of a pregnant St. Petersburg teen was found in a Polk County pine grove, but authorities have not released a cause of death. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says the body of 17-year-old Bria Metz was found Monday in Davenport, where she apparently was dumped. …
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15 November
Europeans: U.S. Should Give Up Control of Internet
STRASBOURG, France – The United States has too much control over the Internet and needs to give it up, a European Union bureaucrat declared Monday. EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, a Luxembourgian, called for “full privatization” of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demanding that it …
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15 November
Scuba Diving Is Newest Therapy for Wounded Troops
KEY LARGO, Fla. – It took nearly half an hour to slick up quadriplegic British Royal Marine Dominic Lovett with baby shampoo and tug him into a neoprene wetsuit. Then six scuba instructors carried him on a mat from the sandy shore into the turquoise sea off the Florida Keys, …
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15 November
Facebook Worth $10 Billion, According to Investors
NEW YORK – Facebook is getting a $200 million investment from a Russian Internet investor that values the social networking company at $10 billion even though it has yet to turn a profit. The investment gives Digital Sky Technologies a nearly 2 percent stake in Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook’s preferred …
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15 November
Pfizer Offers Jobless Americans Free Viagra, Lipitor, Other Drugs for a Year
The recession might be a little less painful for some Americans, who won’t lose their prescription medications if they lose their jobs. Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it will give away more than 70 of its most widely prescribed drugs, including Lipitor and Viagra, for up to a year to people …
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15 November
Astronauts Install New, and Old, Gyroscopes in Hubble
Well, that was a long one. Astronauts Michael Massimino and Michael Good completed the eighth-longest spacewalk in history Friday afternoon, wrapping up a seven-hour, 56-minute marathon session at around 4:45 EDT. The operation took so long because one of the three new gyroscope packages meant for the Hubble Space Telescope …
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