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WASHINGTON – Even with difficult-to-digest proposals to curb spiraling Medicare costs and kill programs to repair dilapidated public housing, fund community action agencies and provide food to the elderly poor, President Bush’s $3 trillion budget will project deficits around $400 billion this year and next. Bush’s submission is already absorbing …

NEW YORK – Google News quietly reinstated Tuesday the articles of a news service that routinely exposes U.N. corruption, a day after FOXNews.com ran a story about the Internet giant’s decision to remove Inner City Press from its search engine. Inner City Press returned to the Google News search late …

LONDON – A man pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping a would-be suicide bomber evade police after the attacker failed to blow himself up on a London subway train. Mohamed Kabashi, 25, admitted assisting Hussain Osman, one of five men now serving long prison sentences for plotting to blow themselves up …

NEW YORK – A man questioned in Pennsylvania by police in the gruesome meat-cleaver murder of a Manhattan psychologist has been released, according to local media reports. For much of the day Thursday, NYPD detectives interrogated a man in his 40s in Bethlehem, Pa., who was reportedly a suspect in …

PORT WENTWORTH, Ga. – An explosion at a sugar refinery that killed nine people was caused by a cloud of sugar dust that ignited beneath the plant’s silos, investigators said Friday. Crews recovered the body of the last worker reported missing from a debris-littered break room late Thursday, bringing the …

DILI, East Timor – Australian troops backed by a warship arrived in East Timor to boost security Tuesday after rebel attacks on the country’s two top leaders left the president in “extremely serious” condition with gunshot wounds. The government declared a state of emergency amid fears of more unrest and …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday scheduled an April 8 special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Tom Lantos. If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff will be held June 3 between the top vote-getters …

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. – One man pulled a couch over his head. Bank employees rushed into the vault. A woman trembled in her bathroom, clinging to her dogs. College students huddled in dormitories. Tornado warnings had been broadcast for hours, and when the sirens finally announced that the twisters had arrived, …

A desperate husband who learned a hospital was about to take his comatose wife off life support managed to awaken her doing the one thing he knew she hated — being “told off,” it is reported by the Daily Mail. Yvonne Sullivan, 28, of the English seaside resort town of …

Federal courts in the busiest sector for illegal immigration are overwhelmed, only able to handle a fraction of the immigration cases sent their way. The Arizona Republic reports that while federal prosecutors in the Tucson sector want to dispose of 100 illegal immigration cases a day, they’re only taking care …