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WASHINGTON – In an unorthodox move, the Senate has confirmed the appointment of Donald Winter as Navy secretary, but he won’t formally take over until the current secretary’s stalled promotion is cleared in an expected recess appointment by President Bush. Two senators have blocked Navy Secretary Gordon England’s confirmation as …

TORONTO – In a discovery with implications for fighting obesity in humans, Canadian scientists have discovered a molecular switch in specially bred laboratory mice that makes the animals skinnier than their normal brethren. The altered mice, which lack a certain gene, have half as much fat as normal mice — …

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are pressing for extensive records on the participation of Judge Samuel Alito in an appeals case involving a mutual fund company with which he had a six-figure investment. In their first coordinated challenge to Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the eight Democrats on the Senate …