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1. The government says US home prices fell in April at their fastest rates since 1991. Meanwhile, the Senate has overwhelmingly voted to speed up work on a 300-billion dollar foreclosure rescue plan. And a private survey says consumer confidence is
1. Federal plans say sustained person-to-person spread of bird flu or other super-influenza strain could prompt Washington to restrict travel to block a pandemic. 2. Former President Clinton, Senator
1. Havana was the scene of a major military parade in honor of Cuban leader Fidel Castro's 80th birthday. However, the ailing Castro wasn't in attendance . US officials believe Castro is suffering fro
1. The UN Security Council could vote Saturday on sanctions against North Korea in response to the country's reported testing of a nuclear weapon. The US and Japan want a quick vote on the measure, bu
Michael Devlin has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping Ben Ownby. The 13-year-old boy was snatched minutes after he stepped off his school bus. He was found later in Devlin's St. Louis area apartment along with anothe
1. Hurricane Dean has lost some of its punch as it crosses the Yucatan Peninsula. But it's expected to gain strength as it sweeps the lower Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile Texas is breathing easier because the storm is too far south to threaten the state w
1. Hurricane warnings for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica as Hurricane Dean bear s down on the Caribbean islands. Dean is about 175 miles south of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, moving to the west-northwest at about 17 miles an ho
1. Chief political strategist and right-hand man Karl Rove will be leaving his post at the White House by the end of the month. Rove has been at the president's side for more than 14 years, starting with Bush's run for Governor of Texas. Rove says he
In his report to Congress General David Petraeus says he hopes to withdraw roughly 30,000 US troops by next summer. That's back to pre-surge levels. He also said last winter's build-up has met military objectives in large measure. Senator Larry Craig
1. New indictments have been announced in Erie, Pennsylvania from a 2003 bank robbery. Brian Wells died after a bomb locked around his neck detonated. Before that happened he told police he was forced by gunmen to rob the bank. But indictments name W
1. Britain's anti-terror police chief says two car bombs found in central London are clearly linked. The first vehicle packed with gasoline, propane and nails was discovered this morning in the city's bustling nightclub and theater district. Hours la
1. In Utah, crews get closer to six trapped coal miners. They have now drilled within 1,000 feet of where the men are believed to be, hoping to get them food and air. The mine's owner says it may take two days to reach the trapped men. They've been t
1. Police are interviewing two people in Atlanta after an apparent murder-suicide left four people dead. Authorities say a gunman shot five people, killing three before turning the gun on himself. Neighbors described the suspected shooter as sweet. 2
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1. The body of New England Patriots player Marquise Hill was found today just a day after he was reported missing following a jet ski accident on Lake Pontchartrain. Hill's body was discovered by searchers about a quarter mile from where the former L
1. Larry Birkhead says DNA tests prove he is the father of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter. He emerged triumphant from a closed hearing in the Bahamas to announce the results. Dannielynn could inherit a fortune in the wake of her mother's death
1. John Edwards is continuing his bid for the presidency as his wife now battles cancer. Elizabeth Edwards stood by her husband's side in North Carolina, revealing her cancer has returned. She was first diagnosed at the close of the 2004 campaign. 2
1. The Anna Nicole Smith's circus is picking up sticks and moving to the Bahamas. Friday, a Florida judge handling the paternity suit surrounding her daughter doubted he had jurisdiction over the matter as the baby was born in and still lives in the
1. A Florida judge is ordering another DNA sample to be taken from Anna Nicole Smith's body. It comes as the former Playboy playmate's longtime companion Howard K. Stern and her estranged mother fight over Smith's remains. Stern is also fighting Lar
1. The true power of nature was on full display throughout the Midwest. Raging flood waters are still tearing through southern Indiana, swallowing farmland and homes. So far eight people have died from flooding in Michigan and Indiana. 2. McDonald's