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Shouting down President Bush, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” A group called The World Can’t Wait is urging Americans to disrupt President Bush’s State of the Union address next month. In a full page in The New York Times today, the group says, “Just as …

American leaders on Saturday said Pope John Paul II (search) inspired them in public life, and recalled his talent for touching those of all backgrounds and faiths. “The Catholic Church has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom, and a good and faithful servant of …

If you believe in Armageddon — and apparently a lot of people do, or the Left Behind series of novels wouldn’t be the best- sellers they are — there’s plenty of evidence that the battle of all battles is on the way. During the Gulf War a decade ago, some …

Federal health officials say a new version of the painkiller OxyContin that is designed to be harder to abuse offers some improvements over the original pill. Purdue Pharma LP has touted the new pill’s plastic-like coating, which is designed to make the drug harder to crush and snort or inject. …

TAMPA, Fla. – A man who authorities say escaped from a state prison has shot and killed himself inside a motel room near Tampa. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies say they received a tip and knocked on the man’s motel room door late Sunday night. The man refused to open and …

TOKYO – Small tsunami waves caused by a powerful earthquake that hit Samoa in the Pacific Ocean reached Japan on Wednesday, officials said. Japan’s Meteorological Agency said tsunami waves, which it described as “very weak,” were registered off the island of Hachijojima about 10 hours after the quake. The agency …

HYDERABAD, India – A powerful Indian politician and four other people were killed when their helicopter crashed in the dense jungles of southern India during a pounding rainstorm, Indian media reported Thursday. The helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh state Chief Minister Y.S.R. Reddy, 60, lost contact with air traffic controllers Wednesday …

LOS ANGELES – A former emergency room doctor who deliberately braked so that two bicyclists rammed into his car in a road rage incident was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison. Christopher Thomas Thompson, 60, was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Prosecutors had sought an eight-year …

Crews rescued a security guard Thursday from the U.N. headquarters building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake, “a small miracle” as 36 U.N. personnel were confirmed dead and nearly 200 remained missing, the head of the world body said. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the U.N.’s mission chief, Hedi Annabi, and …

NEW YORK – A famed strongman who once lifted 3,200 pounds at Coney Island during its heyday and was still bending quarters with his fingers at age 104 died Monday after he was hit by a minivan. Joe Rollino was struck as he crossed a major street in Brooklyn, and …