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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (search), a surgeon who had questioned Terri Schiavo’s (search) diagnosis during the intense national debate on whether to remove her feeding tube, said the autopsy documenting her severe brain damage brings “a very sad chapter to a close.” “She had devastating brain damage, …

EAST PALATKA, Fla. – Federal agents raided a migrant farm labor camp (search) where homeless men and women were kept in what labor officials called a version of modern-day slavery. Four people, including the camp’s owner, Ronald Evans, face federal charges in a case that officials said is likely to …

WASHINGTON – The government is checking a possible case of mad cow disease in the United States in an animal previously cleared of being infected, the Agriculture Department (search) said Friday. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns (search) said more tests were needed to confirm the disease, but he emphasized that the …