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• Pop star's slaying turns into Mideast drama
The slaying of Suzanne Tamim has gone beyond a lurid crime story to something more serious — a glimpse into the close links between Egypt's government and powerful business tycoons long viewed as above the law.
• Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city
Some 250,000 people are affected in the Gonaives region and 54,000 people are living shelters across the country, according to government estimates.
• School shooter jailed over new weapons charge
The federal government had held Johnson and Golden until age 21 after the Jonesboro shootings. At the time of the schoolyard massacre, Arkansas had the means to hold Johnson and Golden only until age 18.
• Government questions plastic bottle's safety
WASHINGTON - Government toxicologists have reiterated safety concerns about a chemical used in baby bottles and food containers, just weeks after the Food and Drug Administration declared the substance safe . A report issued Wednesday said there is ...
• Government told to produce waterboarding info
Sept. 2: After the poisoning death of ex-KGB agent-turned-Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko and the Russia-Georgia war, New York Times reporter Alan Cowell, author of "The Terminal Spy," says signs point to a new, troubling era in Russia-West ...