It’s always great to see Juliet and especially fun to work on “FOX & Friends First” today. Ok, we opened up with breaking news: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (search) are engaged!! Wow! Let’s interrupt taped programming. That was my first instinct, but Juliet informed me the relationship was less …
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NEW YORK – Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s (search) take on the U.S. economy and the dollar’s movement in response to the latest trade deficit data will set the tone for the U.S. stock market next week. Most of the drama will come toward the end of the week, with …
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WASHINGTON – Despite growing doubts about the news media’s patriotism, most people still have a positive view of news outlets like their daily newspaper, local TV, network television news and cable news networks, a poll found. While the public views much of the news media favorably, they are less inclined …
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WASHINGTON – At the behest of a lobbyist now under criminal investigation, two Indian tribes paid $25,000 each to a conservative tax-exempt group to underwrite an event that scored tribal leaders a private meeting with President Bush. The arrangement in 2001 between the tribes, lobbyist Jack Abramoff (search) and the …
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PASADENA, Calif. – Ciara (search), Amerie, Fantasia and Destiny’s Child (search) were up for multiple honors at the Lady of Soul Awards, with special honoree Aretha Franklin (search) set to make a much anticipated appearance. Teen “crunk & B” sensation Ciara, along with R&B stars Toni Braxton and Brian McKnight, …
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McLEAN, Va. – An infant born last month to a severely brain-damaged woman died Monday after emergency surgery to repair a perforated intestine. Susan Anne Catherine Torres (search), born prematurely on Aug. 2 after her mother was on life support for three months, died of heart failure at Children’s National …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A U.S. Navy submarine collided early Monday with a Turkish merchant ship in the Gulf, the U.S. Navy (search) reported. No one was hurt on either vessel. The USS Philadelphia (search) was traveling on the surface of the Gulf when it hit the Turkish-flagged M/V …
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NEW ORLEANS – In a grim opening salvo from Hurricane Rita (search), a steady rain began falling Thursday on New Orleans for the first time since Katrina laid waste to the city, and engineers rushed to shore up the broken levees for fear of another ruinous round of flooding. The …
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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (search), a potential presidential candidate in 2008, sold all his stock in his family’s hospital corporation about two weeks before it issued a disappointing earnings report and the price fell nearly 15 percent. Frist held an undisclosed amount of stock in Hospital Corporation …
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ROME – Italian authorities have issued arrest warrants for three more purported CIA operatives accused of helping abduct an Egyptian Muslim cleric from Italy in 2003, a prosecutor said Friday. Milan Prosecutor Armando Spataro (search) told The Associated Press the new warrants were approved by Milan Judge Chiara Nobile (search) …
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