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Food industry bitten by its lobbying success

7/25/2008 10:01 AM PST

The food industry must drop any remaining opposition to electronic record-keeping and back an effective system for tracing contaminated food to its source, a lawmaker investigating food safety said Friday.

Bush critics get an unimpeachable forum

7/25/2008 10:01 AM PST

Call it the un-impeachment hearing.

Karadzic is interviewed on arrest details, faces Friday deadline to file appeal

7/25/2008 9:56 AM PST

A prosecutor interviewed war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic on Friday about the details of his arrest, his lawyer said, amid efforts by the ex-Bosnian Serb warlord to fight his extradition to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.

Mexican military losing drug war support

7/25/2008 9:55 AM PST

This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street.

Dominatrix says she regrets filming Mosley orgy

7/25/2008 9:51 AM PST

A dominatrix who secretly filmed the president of Formula One's governing body in a sadomasochistic orgy said Friday she regretted her actions, which she said led to her husband's resignation from MI5, Britain's domestic spy agency.

3 Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant

7/25/2008 9:43 AM PST

Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town.

Effort to curb oil speculation stalls in Senate

7/25/2008 9:38 AM PST

Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing $4-a-gallon gasoline, and they rejected Republican calls to expand offshore oil production.

Grandmother pleads guilty in Texas child porn case

7/25/2008 9:35 AM PST

A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case.

Vets allege mismanagement of retirement colony

7/25/2008 9:23 AM PST

Nestled among the lush forests and mountain foothills of rural southeastern Oklahoma is a soldier's utopia, a sleepy enclave where U.S. military veterans can claim their share of the American dream for pennies on the dollar.

Assault claim tightens terms against Detroit mayor

7/25/2008 9:11 AM PST

Investigators alleged Friday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick berated and attacked them as they tried to serve a subpoena to a friend, and a judge ordered the troubled mayor to pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing.

Zimbabwe talks go well though many Zimbabweans feel betrayed and some violence continues

7/25/2008 9:03 AM PST

Power-sharing talks between Zimbabwe's rival political parties were proceeding well Friday, a South African official said, although violence continued and hundreds of opposition supporters remained jailed.

Former football player sentenced in brawl

7/25/2008 9:00 AM PST

A former Tulane University football player convicted of attempted manslaughter for his role in a brawl outside a Bourbon Street nightclub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

Today on the presidential campaign trail

7/25/2008 8:57 AM PST

IN THE HEADLINES

Police: Paparazzi, guards, fight at Jolie chateau

7/25/2008 8:56 AM PST

It sounds like a scene from "Fight Club."

Cape Cod man charged in baseball-bat beating freed

7/25/2008 8:43 AM PST

A Cape Cod man accused of beating a man with a baseball bat because he thought he was a Yankees fan was released from jail Friday by a judge who said the media had made too much of the case.

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