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A storm spread a blanket of snow up to a foot thick across much of the Northeast on Friday, snarling commutes, closing schools and piling up the flakes so fast that shovel crews could barely keep up. At least three fatal crashes were blamed on the storm, including a New …

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s president on Thursday approved extending the country’s military mission in Iraq for another year, the prime minister said. “The issue is closed and taken care of,” Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz told all-news station TVN24 during a skiing trip at the Polish mountain resort of Zakopane. Marcinkiewicz’s …

TUCSON, Ariz. – FBI (search) agents posing as cocaine (search) traffickers nabbed 16 current and former law enforcement officers and U.S. soldiers who had accepted more than $222,000 in bribes to help move drugs past checkpoints, the government said. The outcome of the nearly 3 1/2-year-long sting operation was announced …

Starlets and superstars aren’t the typical users of Botox, says the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Most Botox users are middle-aged working mothers in their 40s and 50s, according to a new ASAPS survey. The most frequently cited reason in the survey was “to look more relaxed, less stressed.” …

WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) reported adjusted gross income of $784,219 for last year, on which he paid $207,307 in federal taxes — about $20,000 less than the previous year, according to the president’s return released Friday by the White House. In 2003 the president and first lady Laura Bush …

See you in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… Pope John Paul II (search) was laid to rest today in the largest funeral in the history of the papacy. As millions of people bid farewell to the pontiff …

NEW YORK – Abbott Laboratories Inc. (ABT) said on Tuesday its quarterly net earnings rose 1.8 percent as higher sales of prescription drugs helped offset several special charges. The company, which also makes medical devices and diagnostics, earned $837.9 million, or 53 cents a share, in the first quarter, up …

WASHINGTON – Thirteen years after most silicone-gel breast implants (search) were banned, federal health advisers on Tuesday narrowly rejected a manufacturer’s request to bring them back to the U.S. market, citing lingering questions about safety and durability. Inamed Corp. (search) had argued that today’s silicone implants are less likely to …

VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico – The U.S. ambassador to Mexico (search) and Mexico’s richest woman gathered with hundreds of family members and friends to tie the knot in a civil ceremony on Saturday night outside this popular resort in central Mexico. Ambassador Tony Garza (search), a Texas native appointed by …

Axl Rose (search) hasn’t cut a new album in 10 years, but his name still draws crowds — even without the man himself. That was the case Friday night at Coyotes, a small club in Cartersville, Ga., about 40 miles outside of Atlanta. Contrary to all evidence, Coyotes insisted that …