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OMAHA, Neb. – The nation’s largest medical unit for victims of highly lethal infectious diseases such as smallpox, anthrax (search) and the plague opened in Nebraska on Monday. The Nebraska Medical Center‘s (search) 10-bed containment wing has a separate ventilation system, alarms to indicate escaping air, a sterilizer for items …

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Extremists on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides pose a significant threat to a truce that 13 Palestinian factions agreed to extend this week. Rogue Palestinian groups, some of which are believed to be funded by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah (search), remain outside the truce, which is …

WASHINGTON – Setting up an independent arbiter of freedom-of-information disputes with the government would make appeals for the release of information more fair and less expensive, witnesses told a Senate panel Tuesday. “It will more than pay for itself in diverting cases from the courts,” Thomas M. Susman, a lawyer …