This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” July 19, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “On the Record” weeknights at 10 p.m. ET GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: The choice. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE WALKER BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The decisions of the Supreme Court …
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WASHINGTON – The National Counter-Terrorism Center (search) counted 3,192 terrorism incidents in 2004, according to acting director John Brennan, who released the data on Tuesday. That’s about five times as many incidents as the 651 counted using a different measure for the year. The information, updated to include data tracked …
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WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney (search) has a mild case of esophagitis and some small dilation of the arteries behind both knees, his office said Saturday after he completed a two-part annual physical. Cheney, 64, was at George Washington University Hospital (search) for a colonoscopy, an upper endoscopy and …
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – At long last, Terrence Howard (search) could stop hustling and roll with the flow. Love was all around the veteran character actor Wednesday night, as his low-budget drama, “Hustle & Flow” (search), was treated to the kind of Hollywood premiere usually reserved for big-budget flicks: large, …
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All 11- and 12-year-olds should get the new whooping cough booster vaccine, says the CDC. This doesn’t mean an extra shot. The new booster vaccine contains a tetanus and diphtheria booster, which children already routinely get after age 11, as well as the new whooping cough booster. There are two …
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TORONTO – Gwyneth Paltrow (search), Cameron Diaz (search) and Keira Knightley (search) will be among the headliners at the Toronto International Film Festival (search). Paltrow’s drama “Proof,” (search) Diaz’s sister tale “In Her Shoes” and Knightley’s new take on “Pride and Prejudice” all will play at the festival, organizers announced …
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DETROIT – A federal judge Thursday threw out a libel and defamation lawsuit filed against filmmaker Michael Moore (search) by the brother of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols (search). U.S. District Court Judge Paul D. Borman ruled that statements Moore made about James Nichols in the 2002 “Bowling for …
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ROME – Tom Cruise (search) started shooting scenes for “Mission: Impossible 3 (search)” in Rome on Tuesday by whizzing past the camera in a speedboat on the river Tiber. Fans looked on from a bridge near Castel Sant’Angelo as the star sped under them to film the third installment in …
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A Kansas man has put his best foot forward — in a bucket of formaldehyde on the front porch. Ezekiel Rubottom, 21, of Lawrence, had to have his clubbed left foot amputated three weeks ago after a lifetime of medical problems. After the operation, he took it home. “I’m not …
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