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MELBOURNE, Australia – Formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week in a marathon surgery will remain in the care of a humanitarian group for at least two years, the organization’s CEO said Friday. The Children First Foundation, which brought Trishna and Krishna to Australia for the surgery, will continue to …

TUCSON, Ariz. – Authorities say a former high-ranking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was stationed in Mexico before retiring in 2007 has been arrested on suspicion of cocaine smuggling. Richard Padilla Cramer was arrested Friday at his home in Green Valley, Ariz., 25 miles south of Tucson. He …

MANNING, S.C. – A private school in South Carolina worried about a flu epidemic has closed after hundreds of students called in sick. Laurence Manning Academy headmaster Spencer Jordan says in a message on the school’s Web site that the private school is closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Multiple media …

Mike Allen of the Politico newspaper, one of the best reporters in town, quotes an unnamed senior administration official on the Massachusetts race as follows: “This is not a moment that causes the president or anyone else who works for him to express any doubt. It more reinforces the conviction …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Waste Not Want Not Federal investigators reportedly have received more than 730 allegations of waste and fraud in stimulus act funding so far. The Washington Times reports as much as 60 percent of some agencies’ oversight budgets will go to policing the …

There’s another type of mob besides “the mob” and that’s mob rule. People looking to take up pitchforks and torches and, keeping with our movie theme, it’s kind of like in Frankenstein. Executives at failing companies are being painted as the monster, so that the government can cover-up its role …

There’s hardly a man who doesn’t enjoy his drink, but few among us know what the happy elixir does to the body and the mind. This FAQ on alcohol is not meant to turn you away from your beer, but to let you know what happens when you throw a …

A tool bag lost by a spacewalking astronaut last year met its fiery demise in Earth’s atmosphere Monday after months circling ever closer to the planet. The $100,000 tool bag plunged toward Earth and burned up as it re-entered the atmosphere, according to the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Space Operations …

Mars’ great canyon complex, Valles Marineris, dwarfs the size and splendor of Earth’s own Grand Canyon. But while geologists have a formed a fairly complete picture of how the Grand Canyon formed, the mechanisms that carved out Valles Marineris and its component canyons have been a longstanding mystery, with explanations …

The latest from the Political Grapevine: Athens Attack Foiled?Guantanamo Bay Detainees have given up intelligence that helped foil plans for a terrorist attack at theAthens Olympics (search)next month … according to a new report in the Chicago Tribune. The intelligence, described during a special intelligence briefing with the Tribune, was …