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WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) intends to nominate California Rep. Christopher Cox (search) to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Republican officials said Wednesday following the resignation of William Donaldson (search). These officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said an announcement was possible as early as Thursday. Cox, 52, …

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon‘s (search) Gaza withdrawal plan is constitutional, removing the last legal obstacle to this summer’s watershed pullout. Also Thursday, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (search) was meeting militant groups in Gaza to try to resolve domestic political disputes and keep …

PARIS – A sketch by Pablo Picasso (search) of his mistress reclining nude sold for $575,357 — about three times the estimated price — at a Paris auction Monday where the woman sold 20 of the artist’s works. Describing the pencil on paper sketch in the sale catalogue, Genevieve Laporte …