NBC makes changes to struggling Thursday night schedule
NEW YORK Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — NBC is making big changes to its prime-time lineup for Thursday — the night it used to own in the era of “must-see TV” — by instituting a two-hour comedy block led by “My…
Read MoreMany solutions, little consensus on illegal immigration problem
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — From building a fence to keep them out to passing a law to help them stay, members of Congress have lots of ideas on how to respond to President Bush’s challenge to take on the…
Read MoreJudge: Prayers given in Indiana House may not favor one religion
INDIANAPOLIS Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — A federal judge on Wednesday barred the Indiana House from opening its sessions with specifically Christian prayers, ruling that such prayers amount to “an official endorsement of the Christian religion.” Judge David Hamilton advised House…
Read MoreIt’s Republicans vs. Republicans in battle over dairy program
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — For a few Republican lawmakers, perhaps the biggest battle facing House-Senate negotiators on a huge budget bill isn’t a high-profile issue like cutting food stamps and Medicaid or opening a stretch of pristine Alaskan coast…
Read MoreGovernment investigates fraction of rail crossing accidents
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — The federal government is investigating less than 1 percent of accidents at railroad crossings and imposing few fines for defective safety equipment, the Transportation Department’s inspector general said Thursday. Of the 3,045 collisions at rail…
Read MoreGovernment announces extra steps to ensure drug coverage for poor
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Two weeks after being sued, the government said Thursday it put in place more safeguards to ensure that poor older people can fill their drug prescriptions on Jan. 1. In recent weeks, the government automatically…
Read MoreFrench doctors claim world-first partial face transplant
LYON, France Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Doctors in France said they had performed the world’s first partial face transplant, forging into a risky medical frontier with their operation on a woman disfigured by a dog bite. The 38-year-old woman, who…
Read MoreFox News takes ‘Journal Editorial Report’ after PBS storm
NEW YORK Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — After being caught in a storm over political influence at PBS, a weekly talk show featuring members of the Wall Street Journal editorial staff is shifting to Fox News Channel. It was the “Journal…
Read MoreElectronic voting under scrutiny as deadline looms
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Even in this election off-year, the potential perils of electronic voting systems are bedeviling state officials as a Jan. 1 deadline approaches for complying with standards for the machines’ reliability. Across the country, officials are trying…
Read MoreEconomy proving resilient despite hurricanes
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — The nation’s economy demonstrated just how sturdy it is, posting its strongest quarterly showing in more than a year despite the Gulf Coast hurricanes. Gross domestic product, the best measure of economic standing, increased at…
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