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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he will meet Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday. Abbas visited Washington last week and has complained that months of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have yielded no progress. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the region for talks with Palestinian and …

NEW YORK – Production of ABC’s “Ugly Betty” is moving to New York. The announcement was made Monday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and ABC Studios President Mark Pedowitz. They say the show will take advantage of a 35 percent tax credit from the city and state when …

WASHINGTON – Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being stripped of planetary status by astronomers two years ago. From now on all similar distant bodies in the solar system will be called “plutoids.” That’s the decision by the International Astronomical Union, which met last week in …