WASHINGTON – Film director Stephen Spielberg, singers Dolly Parton and Smokey Robinson, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and conductor Zubin Mehta will be honored in December by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. “This year we honor five extraordinary international artists whose abundant contributions to their fields are …
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NEW YORK – Stocks fell Friday in thin trading, ending a shortened week quietly as the holiday shopping season began and attention turned to retailers and a steep decline in the dollar against other major currencies. The major stock indexes ended the week mixed, with only the Nasdaq composite index …
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” November 17, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Could Senator Clinton soon be Secretary of State Clinton? Senator Clinton met with President-elect Obama to talk about …
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – Britain’s foreign policy chief said Monday that Iran’s nuclear program presents an immediate threat to the Middle East and the rest of the world. The comments by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband come a few days after a report by the International Atomic Energy …
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This is a rush transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” December 3, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: All right, he managed the L.A. Dodgers for 20 seasons and is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Now our …
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BURQA, West Bank – The transformation of a piece of West Bank land from a Palestinian field into a Jewish settlement has roots in an unlikely place — Orange County, Calif. — and in a document that a man supposedly signed more than four decades after the date of his …
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Turning a deaf ear to Russia’s complaints, the Bush administration is moving to rebuild Georgia’s military while asserting it will not let Russia divide Europe again. “Georgia, like any sovereign country, should have the ability to defend itself and to deter renewed aggression,” Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman told the …
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NEW YORK – It wasn’t what anyone expected to see while perusing a news article. But there, in the final paragraph of an online story about the call girl involved in the Eliot Spitzer scandal, Yahoo’s automated system was inviting readers to browse through photos of underage girls. Yahoo Shortcuts, …
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ATLANTA – Two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s children have filed a lawsuit against a third, embroiling the family in a legal dispute over the civil rights icon’s estate. Bernice King and Martin Luther King III filed a lawsuit Thursday in county court to force Dexter King to open the …
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A Filipino teenager who came to New York so doctors could perform surgery to untwist her severely clubbed feet took her first unaided steps Wednesday in pink-and-white sneakers — the first shoes she’s ever worn. “I’m very happy,” Jingle Luis said with a smile. “It was exciting.” The 15-year-old girl …
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