LOS ANGELES – The Screen Actors Guild plans to send strike authorization ballots to its 120,000 members on Jan. 2. The votes will be counted on Jan. 23, which will not be in time to potentially disrupt the Golden Globe Awards like the writers’ strike did last year. Approval by …
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – An owner of a Long Island gym was arrested Wednesday on charges that he murdered an armored-van guard during a heist 14 years ago and later killed two other men to cover up the first shooting. One of those killed was the brother-in-law of Dee Snider, …
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TRIPOLI, Libya – The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Qaddafi, Libya’s mercurial strongman. “The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of …
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MOSCOW – A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday, an official said, in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American nations amid increasingly strained relations …
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LOS ANGELES – A judge on Wednesday dealt a serious but possibly temporary blow to a lawsuit filed by a celebrity magazine reporter who has accused a paparazzi agency of secretly filming Heath Ledger doing drugs in her hotel room. Superior Court Judge John S. Wiley Jr. tentatively dismissed 11 …
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Arguments began Monday in a federal lawsuit alleging that a Maryland doctor stapled a man’s rectum shut during an operation, rendering him unable to move his bowels for 17 days, the Baltimore Examiner reported. Ronald Watkins, 64, of West Virginia, has accused Dr. Manuel Casiano, a doctor in Frederick County, …
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NEW YORK – Wall Street took a step back from the ledge Tuesday, with the Federal Reserve resisting a cut in interest rates and the stock market staging a small rebound one day after a stomach-churning drop. Investors still kept a nervous eye on American International Group Inc., the world’s …
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BEIJING – Mariel Zagunis stood proudly atop the podium, the first American to do so at these Olympics. A former president was in the front row — and three red, white and blue flags were rising to the rafters. “It was a dream come true,” Zagunis said. Zagunis won the …
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BEIJING – President Bush is eagerly awaiting the start of the Summer Olympics, making history as the first president to attend this world athletic competition on foreign soil. But his arrival in Beijing Thursday night on the eve of the opening of the games came amid an atmosphere of tension …
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LOS ANGELES – Actress Christina Applegate reportedly is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Ame Van Iden, publicist for the 36-year-old actress, released the following statement late Saturday: “Christina Applegate was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. Benefiting from early detection through a doctor ordered MRI, the cancer is …
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