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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Vietnam convicted four democracy activists of trying to overthrow the communist government on Wednesday and sentenced them to up to 16 years in prison for promoting multiparty democracy. The most well known of the four defendants, U.S.-trained human rights attorney Le Cong Dinh, received …

TOKYO – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at age 93. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip for his shipbuilding company on Aug. 6, 1945, when a …

NEWBURGH, N.Y. – Police have called off the search for a 4-year-old New York boy who has been missing for three weeks. Marc Anthony Bookal was last seen Dec. 14. Authorities say they’ve covered everywhere they wanted to search in the city of Newburgh, including the boy’s neighborhood and the …

SEATTLE – Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) on Thursday posted a quarterly profit below Wall Street forecasts and the Web’s largest retailer vowed to continue free shipping incentives, then watched its shares fall sharply after hours. “While free shipping is expensive for the company, it saves our customers tens of millions of …

On Monday, we gave you a story and explained that you can’t have financial regulation done by the crooks and thieves we currently have in Washington, D.C. The best way I can explain it is with George Clooney. Do you remember the movie “Oceans 11”? They go in and rob …

So James Cameron was just on “The View” Wednesday morning and he was quite frank about the premise and purpose of his film, “Avatar.” He plainly explained it was anti-corporate and that his goal was to wrap that “subversive” message in an entertaining vehicle that America, or the world, would …

An 11-year-old girl in the Northeast recently gave birth to a baby boy, the girl’s family told Fox News. “My daughter and (her) baby are fine, and the baby is absolutely beautiful,” said the mother of the 11-year-old girl. The girl and her family are not being named in order …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Full of Holes The hole in the ozone layer, thought to be caused by human use of refrigerants and aerosols, is slowly repairing itself. The New York Times reports while that’s good news for environmentalists, some scientists warn it may actually contribute …

The president went to the Bay State Sunday to prop up the fading campaign of Democrat Martha Coakley, who was once considered a shoo-in for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. But now, Republican challenger Scott Brown’s ahead in the polls, and the president is staking his credibility on the race. (BEGIN …

In Texas, the State Board of Education will be making important decisions about your child’s curriculum. I say “your child” because I have no kids — unless you count my ferrets Captain Sparkles and Dangerzone. They’re children to me, but alas they don’t read books — yet. Anyway, this 15-member …