LOS ANGELES – Criminal charges have been filed against officials of two Los Angeles area companies that allegedly imported and distributed more than 70,000 tubes of Chinese toothpaste containing a poisonous substance. Vernon Sales and Selective Imports allegedly sold toothpaste containing diethylene glycol, a chemical used in antifreeze and as …
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LONDON – Desperate for a glimpse into Adolf Hitler’s unpredictable mind, British spies hired an astrologer during World War II to write horoscopes for him and other Nazi leaders, documents declassified Tuesday show. They soon regretted it. The file released to Britain’s National Archives catalogs the frustrations of MI5 handlers …
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NEW YORK – Verizon’s fiber-optic service, so far mainly available to suburbanites, is making a big push into Manhattan with a deal to connect an 11,232-unit apartment complex. Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, an enclave of 110 buildings on Manhattan’s East Side, is the largest apartment complex in Manhattan …
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The news doesn’t stop on the weekend and neither does “FOX & Friends.” So start the weekend in the know with hosts Kiran Chetry, Page Hopkins and Julian Phillips. Saturday Starts at 7 a.m. ET The GOP releases a video attacking Democrats like Howard Dean and John Kerry for making …
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Shares of General Motors Corp. (GM) fell to an 18-year low Tuesday after Toyota Motor Corp. (TM) unveiled production plans for 2006 that increased fears that it will topple GM as the world’s largest automaker. Toyota said it plans to make a record 9.06 million cars in 2006, just shy …
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DETROIT – Ford Motor Co.(F) is again facing a boycott threat from a conservative Christian group over the automaker’s decision to run corporate advertisements in gay publications. Tupelo, Mississippi-based American Family Association said Ford reneged on an agreement to pull ads from gay media. “We had an agreement with Ford, …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – A catlike creature photographed by camera traps in Borneo is likely to be a new species of carnivore, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday. If confirmed, the animal — which has dark red fur and a long, bushy tail — would be the first new carnivore species …
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NEW YORK – Sure there’s nothing quite the same as having a loud, packed house for the holidays. There’s always food cooking, young children giggling past bedtime and those intense feelings of family togetherness that you only get once a year. But for some folks, there is something to be …
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This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” December 13, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: Now for the top story, two other views on this. Joining …
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HOUSTON – A judge rejected former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling’s request to dismiss insider trading charges pending against him in a court opinion made public Thursday. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake, in a 26-page opinion, denied Skilling’s request to dismiss 10 counts of insider trading. On Wednesday Lake accepted …
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