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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) all but declared his intent Wednesday to run for re-election in 2006, telling a friendly audience that his job isn’t finished and that he would announce his plans Friday. “I’m not in this just for the short term. I believe very strongly in …

JERUSALEM – Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres (search) said Saturday that Palestinians would be able to enter and leave Gaza after Israeli troops pull out next week, but Palestinian leaders must prevent militant attacks or suffer the consequences. Egyptian troops, meanwhile, began deploying along Egypt’s (search) volatile desert frontier …

Something’s rotten in the state of Iowa. Locals in the town of Zearing went to city hall on Monday, fed up with what they say is an awful stench coming from a company that washes livestock trucks. “If I wanted to smell that smell, I’d live on a farm,” said …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Two hundred Afghan police, supported by U.S.-led coalition forces, killed 13 suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan following a spate of guerrilla-style strikes in the area over the weekend, an Afghan official said Monday. Meanwhile, a C-130 U.S. military plane carrying U.S. Ambassador Ronald Neumann (search) suffered …

PITTSBURGH – Patients suffering from bipolar disorder who underwent therapy to help them maintain a regular daily routine and cope with stress were able to avoid relapses over a two-year period, a study has found. The study, published in September’s Archives of General Psychiatry, examined a therapy developed by researchers …

NEW ORLEANS – The city rescued Isaac Clark and his family and left them in bedlam: surrounded by thousands of increasingly angry, uprooted people, with no food or water and nobody to protect them. A man died the night before, his body left in Thursday’s hot sun on a grassy …

ORANJESTAD, Aruba – A judge on Friday ordered the conditional release of two Surinamese brothers held in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager, their lawyers said. The two will be freed Saturday along with another suspect. The judge ruled that Deepak Kalpoe (search), 18, and Satish Kalpoe (search), 21, could …

WASHINGTON – A summary of Jose Padilla’s activities, according to the Department of Justice and court filings: March 2000: Padilla joins the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where he becomes interested in training in Afghanistan to become an Al Qaeda fighter. September-October 2000: Padilla attends the Al Qaeda-affiliated al-Farouq …

TEHRAN, Iran – FOX News’ Amy Kellogg recently visited Iran, where she interviewed journalists, students and others on life inside the Islamic Republic. This is the fifth in a series of eight installments about that trip, which will be aired every night on FOX News Channel. There is no U.S. …

TRAPPES, France – For the Muslims of Trappes, decades of praying in basements and cramped rooms in decrepit buildings will soon be over, once the finishing touches are applied to their new, hard-won mosque — a shiny domed structure with a minaret and wooden Moroccan doors. It took sit-in protests …