LOS ANGELES – The king of late-night talk shows, Johnny Carson (search), died Sunday of complications from emphysema. He was 79. “Mr. Carson passed away peacefully early Sunday morning,” his nephew, Jeff Sotzing, told The Associated Press. “He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable. There will …
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BERLIN – Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder paid tribute Tuesday to the victims of the Auschwitz (search) death camp, acknowledging the Nazis had wide support and promising that Germany will fulfill its “moral obligation” to keep alive the memory of their crimes. “I express my shame in the face of those who …
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CAIRO, Egypt – An Arab intellectual charges that the United States and Egypt are keeping the United Nations from publishing a critical survey of the state of the Arab world he helped write, so he is getting it to the public himself. Since the United Nations Development Program (search) sponsored …
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LOS ANGELES – Attorneys for actor Robert Blake (search) were targeting how police handled potential evidence in the days after his wife’s death, as the actor’s murder trial was set to continue Thursday. The clothes Blake wore when his wife was fatally shot sat uncovered in a patrol car for …
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SAN FRANCISCO – The book written by Scott Peterson’s former girlfriend went on sale Tuesday, shedding little new light on the double-murder case but offering a deeper look at a single mother desperate for love. In “Witness For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson,” Amber Frey (search) spends many of the …
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Weekdays at 1 p.m. ET • Click here for FREE TICKETS to our studio audience and order a VHS copy of the show call FDCH eMedia at 1-888-44-FOXTV Tsunami Devastation: We’ll have live reports from the devastated regions of Southeast Asia (search) as Greg Palkot comes to us from one …
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli helicopters fired two missiles at a target south of Gaza City (search) early Wednesday, residents and Palestinian security officials said, and Israeli tanks moved into the city. It was not immediately known what the target was or whether there were casualties. Israeli military officials, …
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BANGKOK, Thailand – Until two weeks ago, Smith Thammasaroj (search) was a prophet without honor. As chief of Thailand’s meteorological department in 1998, he was accused of scare-mongering when he warned that the country’s southwest coast could face a deadly tsunami. He retired under a shadow, dismissed as a crackpot, …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The pink carpet was rolled out, the pink spotlights danced through the crisp night air of downtown Orlando, and everything seemed in place for the opening of Paris Hilton’s first nightclub. Notably missing: One pink-loving hotel heiress. Hilton arrived six hours behind schedule — after many guests …
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KRAKOW, Poland – Vice President Dick Cheney (search) voiced his support Wednesday for Ukraine’s new president, and his bright orange tie — symbolic of Viktor Yushchenko’s (search) “Orange Revolution” — drove home the message. “The world has been inspired by the remarkable images emanating from Ukraine in recent months,” Cheney …
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