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Rock recluse Axl Rose (search) has signed a multimillion dollar publishing deal, and that isn’t sitting well with his former Guns N’ Roses (search) bandmates. The deal with music powerhouse Sanctuary Group (search) covers both the back catalogue, which includes hits such as “Sweet Child of Mine,” “Paradise City” and …

WASHINGTON – Former Texas Rep. Martin Frost dropped out of the race for Democratic national chairman on Tuesday after failing to win the backing of organized labor, winnowing the field to front-runner Howard Dean (search) and three challengers. Frost’s decision came hours after AFL-CIO (search) leaders decided not to make …

ASPEN, Colo. – Cheech and Chong (search) may have joked about marijuana in their movies, but the comedians say they didn’t touch the stuff when the cameras were rolling. “We tried one time and we wasted so much film,” said Tommy Chong (search), recalling a scene in “Up in Smoke.” …

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Oh, what the NFL would have given for a marching band last year instead of Janet Jackson (search). Over the 38-year history of the Super Bowl (search), halftime has always been the best time for fans to take a brief break from the hoopla and recharge for …

WASHINGTON – Top intelligence and military officials say the lack of attacks in the United States since 2001 does not mean terrorist groups are not planning new strikes, with weapons of mass destruction (search) if they can get them. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search) told a House hearing on …

VAIL, Colo. – Eighteen soldiers who lost limbs while serving in Iraq were learning to ski and snowboard Saturday in Colorado (search), part of an effort to speed their recovery with lessons in winter sports. The soldiers arrived in this mountain resort town for the weekend after coming straight from …

NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The woman who claimed to have seen a baby being tossed from a moving car fabricated the story as a cover to abandon her newborn and hide an unwanted pregnancy from her family, authorities said Friday. “It’s not as horrible as we first thought,” Broward County …

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea urged its impoverished people Saturday to rally around Stalinist leader Kim Jong Il (search), after Washington rebuffed the communist North’s demand that the two sides hold bilateral talks to curb nuclear tension. Pyongyang’s state-run daily newspaper Rodong Sinmun (search) allotted the whole front page …

NEW YORK – Lindsay Lohan’s (search) father says his headline-grabbing problems have helped — not hurt — his teenage daughter’s film career. “She’s got more offers than ever now … don’t they say any publicity is good publicity?” Michael Lohan told ABC’s “Primetime Live” in an interview to be broadcast …

BOSTON – The HIV infection rate (search) has doubled among blacks in the United States over a decade while holding steady among whites — stark evidence of a widening racial gap in the epidemic, government scientists said Friday. Other troubling statistics indicate that almost half of all infected people in …