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JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip – A truck filled with masked militants and homemade weapons exploded at a Hamas (search) rally Friday, killing at least 15 Palestinians and wounding 80 — including children — bringing a grisly and terrifying end to one of the last gatherings by armed groups celebrating Israel’s Gaza …

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – As it rumbled toward the city, the 35-foot wave of rain-swollen water churned over and onto itself like a giant snowball, swallowing trees, boulders, homes and anything else in its path. In minutes, the powerful rush flattened homes, uprooted trees and moved buildings hundreds of feet. It …

KENNER, La. – A 73-year-old diabetic grandmother and church elder who fled Katrina’s floodwaters for the safety of a hotel ended up in prison instead for more than two weeks — all over a bite of food. Police in this New Orleans suburb arrested Merlene Maten (search) the day after …

NEW YORK – Edie Lutnick can’t watch images of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation for very long. The memories it evokes are too painful. “How do you watch people saying that their loved ones are missing and look at pictures of missing people and not have it be reminiscent of 9/11?” said …

WASHINGTON – An oak tree may be the only remains of the home where Sen. Trent Lott (search) raised his family and joined other political leaders for a rocking chair view of the sea. Lott, R-Miss., learned from neighbors and relatives that the storm surge from Hurricane Katrina (search), rising …

Crude oil prices fell by $2 a barrel on Friday as Europe prepared to tap up to two million barrels a day of emergency reserves to help ease a fuel crisis threatening the United States. Petrol tanks have run down in the world’s biggest consumer after Hurricane Katrina (search) tore …

And you thought grandmas just pinched cheeks and baked cookies. Wichita Falls, Texas, grandmother Mary McGregor , 57, has set three weightlifting records — and then shattered her own records five more times at the American Masters Weightlifting Championships on the national circuit, according to the Times Record News. Holding …

TEHRAN – FOX News’ Amy Kellogg recently visited Iran, where she interviewed journalists, students and others on life inside the Islamic Republic. This is the fourth in a series of eight installments about that trip, which will be aired every night on FOX News Channel. Iran’s nuclear capability is a …

BRASILIA, Brazil – The parents of a 17-year-old American exchange student who went missing last weekend thanked Brazilian authorities Friday and said they were relieved with the case’s “good ending.” Steve and Stephanie Martin arrived in Brasilia Friday morning to reunite with their daughter, Mykensie, a day after she was …

LOS ANGELES – A man has been ordered held without bond on charges of spreading electronic viruses so he could gain control over military and other computers and sell access to hackers and spammers. Authorities in California say Jeanson James Ancheta, 20, also downloaded adware programs onto some 400,000 of …