SYDNEY, Australia – A Sydney court on Wednesday ordered a celebrity photographer to give a DNA sample to police investigating the apparent bugging of Oscar winner Nicole Kidman’s (search) home. The bug was found Jan. 23 outside Kidman’s home in Sydney’s most exclusive harborside neighborhood during a search by security …
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WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have a busy week ahead, starting with an expectedly confrontational hearing on Monday on the confirmation of John Bolton (search ) as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, the undersecretary for arms control and international security at the State Department, will face unrelenting …
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It’s enough to make you want to scrub your hands and hose down your computer. While you type, your fingers could be grazing over potentially harmful bacteria. That news comes from Gary Noskin, MD, and colleagues at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital. They were curious to see if bacteria found a …
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MIAMI – A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Tuesday upheld Florida’s 160-year-old law enforcing a lifetime ban on voting rights (search) for convicted felons. Ex-felons sued in 2000 to get their voting rights restored when their sentences are finished, instead of having to apply through a complex system for …
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DENVER – Hunter S. Thompson’s (search) ashes will be blasted from a cannon mounted inside a 53-foot-high sculpture of the journalist’s “gonzo fist” emblem, his wife said Tuesday. The cannon shot, planned sometime in August on the grounds of his Aspen-area home, will fulfill the writer’s long-cherished wish. “It’s expensive, …
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Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! On Thursday we took a “road trip” to Pennsylvania to investigate the scene where the missing D.A. was last seen. The trip started before 8 a.m. and we got back to the D.C. Bureau about 8 …
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NEW YORK – Marriott International Inc. (MAR), the largest U.S. hotel operator, Thursday said quarterly profit rose 27 percent as an upswing in travel drove room rates and occupancy higher. The company, which owns the Ritz Carlton (search) and Courtyard by Marriott (search) brands along with flagship-name properties, also raised …
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QALAT, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai (search) said Wednesday he is preparing a formal request to President Bush for a long-term security partnership that could include a permanent U.S. military presence. At a joint news conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search), Karzai said he had consulted many …
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BOSTON – A meteor shower Sunday night sparked a flurry of frantic phone calls to police departments across New England (search) from people who saw bright lights moving in the sky, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said. The meteor shower was seen as far north as Portland, Maine, …
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WASHINGTON – The Ohio (search) senator who surprised fellow Republicans on Tuesday with his sudden concerns about President Bush’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations is known as a maverick. Sen. George Voinovich (search) was the rare Republican holdout against Bush’s 2003 tax cut plan, an administration priority. Despite …
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