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People infected with parasitic worms may be much more susceptible to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Tuesday that may help explain why HIV has hit...
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The suspect accused of cutting a baby from his mother’s womb was found mentally competent by a judge Thursday to assist in her defense, despite a...
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Bleeding cash and with its very survival uncertain, Ford Motor Co., an icon of American automaking, will try to import some of its success from across the Atlantic.
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Now Amy Adams’ love life is “Enchanted,” too.
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The Justice Department in 2002 told the CIA that its interrogators would be safe from prosecution for violations of anti-torture laws if they believed “in good...
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The Bush administration underscored its continued support for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday despite fresh allegations from a former U.S. anti-drug official...
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The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year...
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MTV is staking its brand on a lesser-known one: Russell Brand.
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A $5000 dollar reward is being offered to any Auckland University student who can make a successful citizen’s arrest of United States Secretary of State...
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The Environmental Protection Agency moved Thursday to stop the use of the pesticide carbofuran on all food crops, including those that are imported.
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Obama has a problem: What do you do when you’re a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a...
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More letters, cards, bill payments and other first-class mail items are getting to their destinations on time than ever before, the Postal Service said Thursday.
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A federal judge in Boise says convicted child-killer Joseph Edward Duncan III is mentally competent to face a death penalty hearing.
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Some U.S. motorists sick of getting clobbered at the pump seem willing to do just about anything for free fuel, from giving up the right to name their children to...
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Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, fresh from an Iraq trip with Democrat Barack Obama, said the presidential candidates should focus on the war’s future and stop...
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Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights.
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In Arthur C. Clarke’s forward to his novel 2001 A Space Odyssey, he wrote that
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Agriculture futures traded mostly higher Thursday on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph winds as it moves north over Texas.
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Ford Motor Co. posted its worst quarterly loss ever Thursday in a roiling global auto market that also saw profits fall at Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Co. and AutoNation...
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The Navy has adopted a new plan for training in Hawaii waters that it says will allow it to accelerate some exercises and hold them more frequently while continuing to...
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The Navy is challenging Hawaii’s authority to protect whales by restricting the use of sonar during training exercises, environmentalists and military...
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Whaling, environmentalists contend, if allowed to continue, will change the ecology forever. They believe that unrestrained whaling has led to unsustainable whaling...
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With scant regards to the sexual life of whales, the International Whaling Commission, a treaty organization grouping 80 countries, is seriously debating a possible...
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AP, On Cape Cod Bay
A spotter bangs three times on the boat’s cabin roof, signaling the captain to cut the throttle _ now.
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AP, Washington
An attempt to protect the endangered right whale from being killed by commercial ships has languished for more than a year in part because Vice President Dick...
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An unprecedented number of endangered northern right whales were feeding and lounging off the coast of Cape Cod, state and federal officials said.
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AP, Anchorage
The Bush administration has proposed allowing oil and gas drilling in an area of the Bering Sea considered important for the recovery of the world’s most...
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AP, Wellington
Rescue workers saved one of two whales stranded on a New Zealand beach but were forced to shoot the other after efforts to guide it back to sea failed, a conservation...
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The Navy on Tuesday asked a federal judge to clarify and modify an injunction placing restrictions on the service’s use of sonar in Hawaii waters.
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Now we humans do tend to think too much of ourselves a lot of times. When it comes to someone like me, maybe we can extend that theory for always. We need not look at...
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Luna the six year old orca who swam his way into the hearts of whale watchers, Pacific Northwest natives and marine mammals researchers died after being hit by a...
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A federal judge ordered the Navy on Thursday to adopt measures that would lessen the impact of sonar on whales and other marine life during exercises near Southern...
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AP, Sydney
The widow of TV “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin announced Thursday she will launch non-lethal research of whales in Antarctic waters next year in hopes of...
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The Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, famous for serenading the seas with their haunting melodies. The...
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The endangered fin whales, humpback whales and the minke whales are ending their lives on the platters of expensive Japanese restaurants. The Japanese demand for whale...
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The endangered fin whales, humpback whales and minke whales are ending their lives on the platter of expensive Japanese restaurants. The whales are fast becoming...
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AP, Melbourne
A conservation group that has vowed to disrupt Japan’s annual whale hunt launched its Antarctic campaign Wednesday by renaming one of its ships after...
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AP, San Francisco
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Navy to lessen the harm its high-power sonar does to whales and other marine life during exercises off the Southern...
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Boys attempt to pull a beached whale back into the ocean, in the Yoff neighborhood of Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Residents struggled Wednesday morning to save more than 80 whales that were stranded on the beach Tuesday night. This whale was...
