CHICAGO – Drugs often used to treat elderly patients with dementia-related aggression and delusions can raise their risk of death, according to a study that reinforces new warning labels required on the medications. The researchers pooled results of 15 previous studies on drugs known as atypical anti-psychotics and sold under …
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NEW YORK – A federal court on Friday denied Research In Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) request for the full court to rehear its appeal of a long-running patent suit in which the maker of BlackBerry (search) e-mail devices has been found guilty of infringement. RIM said it plans an appeal to …
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Weekdays at 3 p.m. in the East and high noon in the West! The news begins anew with “Studio B”… Rescuers continue to search for survivors while cold and hungry families patiently wait for relief supplies after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake rocked South Asia Saturday. FOX’s Mike Tobin is live in …
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The news doesn’t stop on the weekend and neither does “FOX & Friends”: Saturday We’ll have the latest on the threats against the New York City subway system. Who are the suspects and who has been arrested? President Bush continues to defend White House Counsel Harriet Miers (search), his Supreme …
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NEW YORK – At $25,000 per minute, advice from Donald Trump (search) doesn’t come cheap. That didn’t stop thousands of fans from attending a Sunday lecture by the real estate mogul, who received $1.5 million for the hour-long speech. Trump, star of NBC’s “The Apprentice (search),” urged listeners to be …
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LOS ANGELES – Fading desert winds and a stream of humid ocean air helped firefighters gain ground on a 23,970-acre wildfire, allowing hundreds of residents to return home to the hills and canyons outside the city. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) praised the nearly 3,000 firefighters who were fighting the blaze, …
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WASHINGTON – Taking a strong stand against Palestinian extremists, the United States joined Friday with the United Nations (search), Russia and the European Union in demanding Syria immediately close the offices of Islamic Jihad in Damascus and prevent use of its territory for terror actions. The so-called quartet (search), which …
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NEW YORK – Hurricane Katrina (search) is likely to result in at least $34.4 billion in personal and commercial property loss claims, according to the first publicly released survey of the nation’s insurers. ISO’s (search) Property Claim Services Unit said Tuesday that the preliminary estimate of damages to homes and …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday’s session are General Electric Co., UnitedHealth Group Inc., Boston Scientific Corp. and Knight-Ridder Inc. BB&T Corp. (BBT) is expected to report third-quarter earnings of 77 cents a share, according to analysts polled by Thomson …
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MANTA, Ecuador – Former Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez (search), who was ousted by Congress in April and has been living in exile, returned home Friday to try to retake power, but was arrested upon arrival. Gutierrez landed at around 7:40 p.m. in a chartered plane from the Colombian capital, Bogota, …
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