BISMARCK, N.D. – Demolition crews blasted chunks of ice near a huge ice jam in the Missouri River on Wednesday in a bid to open a channel, like pulling out a giant plug to drain a flood threatening the city. “We are cautiously optimistic,” Bismarck Mayor John Warford said after …
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Muslim war protesters disrupted a homecoming parade for British troops Tuesday, with one preacher praising the disruption and branding the homecoming a “vile parade” of “brutal murderers” whom he likened to Nazis, the Daily Mail reported. Anjem Choudary mocked the parade for the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton, …
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Syracuse airport officials say hundreds of passengers were evacuated from two terminals after a wired black box was found aboard a Delta regional jet. Hancock International Airport officials say a pilot doing a preflight check found the box around 5:30 a.m. Friday on a plane that had …
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NORTH PORT, Fla. – A Florida baby is in state care after authorities say his mother left him in a vehicle with the windows rolled up. Kasandra Beekman, 24, was charged Friday with felony child neglect, according to police. Officers say she left her 8-month-old son in her car with …
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LOS ANGELES – A graduate student who was imprisoned for a month in Iran and barred from leaving the country for nearly a year has returned to Los Angeles. Esha Momeni, 29, was charged with acting against Iran’s national security and held mainly in solitary confinement after conducting research on …
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BAGHDAD – Up to 30 percent of the Sunni paramilitaries involved in last weekend’s uprising in central Baghdad escaped with their weapons, an Iraqi police officer said Wednesday. The rest of the estimated 250 members of the Awakening Council in the Fadhil area handed over their weapons to Iraqi soldiers …
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A British agent left top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America when she lost her handbag while on assignment. The drugs liaison officer lost a computer memory stick said to contain a list of undercover agents’ names and details with more than five years of …
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DENVER, Colo. – Representatives from an early-warning cyber-alert system plan to announce next month a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security (search) and the FBI (search) to increase cooperation between big business and the federal government in protecting the nation’s cyber-assets, government officials have told FOX News. The system …
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NEW YORK – Stocks fell Monday as concerns about high oil prices and nervousness ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates on Tuesday stifled Wall Street’s enthusiasm over another round of merger deals. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) was down 64.28 points, or 0.60 percent, to close …
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SAN DIEGO – A Roman Catholic bishop apologized for denying funeral rites (search) to a man who owned a bar and a dance club popular with gays and said he will preside over a Mass in the man’s honor, according to the man’s family. Bishop Robert Brom (search), who canceled …
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