Hector Barreto, the head of the Small Business Administration, resigned on Tuesday after facing months of criticism over the agency’s handling of recovery efforts in the Gulf Coast. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s NEW Small Business page. Steven Preston, a senior vice president at The ServiceMaster Co., a publicly traded …
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WASILLA, Alaska – Two small planes collided midair Sunday about 20 miles north of Anchorage, killing all five people aboard, officials said. A man and his three children in a Cessna 170B and the pilot of a Cessna 172 were killed in the wreck just after noon, according to National …
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CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine – Chernobyl‘s coffin is cracking. Birds and rainwater have gotten inside the steel-and-concrete shelter hastily built over the reactor that blew up in 1986, and officials worry about what is getting out. The “sarcophagus” over reactor No. 4 is reaching the end of its life …
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It’s been awhile since we had a star-studded lineup like we presented today. First off, Judge Napolitano filled in for Tiki Barber — who seems to have fallen in love with FOX 5’s morning show — and he did his usual stellar job. I feel so bad that Jerry Rice’s …
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro – The Danube River flooded homes in Serbia and Bulgaria on Friday, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. Swollen by melting snow and heavy rain, the Danube has reached record highs in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria in recent days, threatening towns, villages and farmland. More flooding was …
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BEIJING – Chinese news reports made no mention Friday of the protester who interrupted President Hu Jintao‘s visit with President Bush or a White House announcer flubbing China’s official name. But ordinary Chinese commenting on Web sites accused President Bush of insulting Hu. “You can see from Bush’s lack of …
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LOS ANGELES – Charlize Theron was honored with a top prize from the country’s leading gay organization that monitors the media. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation presented its Vanguard Award to Theron at Saturday’s 17th annual GLAAD Media Awards for increasing “visibility and understanding in the lesbian, gay, …
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LAKE CHARLES, La. – For Elaine Stovall, getting on a bus for the two-hour trip back to Louisiana to vote for the future of New Orleans was just something she had to do. “I would have walked to New Orleans if I had to. I would be less than a …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – A car bomb killed at least seven people on a busy avenue Saturday as Shiite politicians floated a proposal to end the standoff over a new government by having Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari step down — but only if his replacement comes from his own party. The …
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From the dusty, cactus-studded center of this Caribbean island to its palm tree-lined resort beaches, few stones have been left unturned in the disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway. All the investigations, arrests, rumors and intense media coverage in the 11 months since Holloway went missing have taken a toll …
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