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BAGHDAD – Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting homicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. The coordinated blasts — coming 20 …

SALEM, Ore. – So a U.S. Senate candidate with a metal hook for a left hand walks into a bar. The candidate, Steve Novick, has bellied up next to a voter and the two talk about politics. The other guy struggles to twist off a beer cap. Novick coolly reaches …

PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo’s leaders sent letters 192 countries Monday seeking formal recognition of independence, and suspense gripped the province as its citizens awaited key backing from the U.S. and key European powers. A day after Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leadership made its historic declaration of independence from Serbia, tensions soared …

IPSWICH, England – The man accused of murdering five prostitutes in Suffolk says he could have picked up all of the women on the nights they are thought to have disappeared. At his trial, Steve Wright told the jury he had sex with four of the women and was intending …

PRISTINA, Kosovo – Revelers fired guns, waved red-and-black Albanian flags and set off fireworks over Kosovo Sunday after parliament proclaimed independence in defiance of Serbia and Russia, which condemned the declaration of the world’s newest nation. A decade after a bloody separatist war with Serbian forces that claimed 10,000 lives, …

CUKURCA, Turkey – Turkish troops have killed 77 Kurdish rebels in night-long clashes in northern Iraq, the military said Wednesday. Five soldiers were also killed. Meanwhile, more than 40 military trucks ferried troops toward the Iraqi border Wednesday, a day after heavy snow slowed down Turkey’s ground incursion against Kurdish …

Drew Peterson’s two sons with third wife Kathleen Savio are expected to appear Thursday morning before a grand jury investigating the death of their mother, FOX News’ Greta Van Susteren reported. Sources close to the Peterson investigation told Van Susteren four police officers arrived at the ex-police sergeant’s house at …

WASHINGTON – The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday is almost sure to produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs. The Pentagon would receive a $36 billion, 8 percent boost for the …

Julianne Hough of “Dancing with the Stars” wants to remain a virgin until marriage, she tells CosmoGirl magazine. In a recent interview, the 19-year-old spoke of her trouble fitting in with the Hollywood crowd, due to the presence of the drugs, sex and alcohol she refrains from. Hough says she …

LAS VEGAS – As police tried to piece together how a rare, fatal poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a Las Vegas hospital room. Adding to the mystery, police said that firearms and an “anarchist-type textbook” were …