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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The new chief judge in Saddam Hussein‘s trial brought a tough new style to the court Sunday, tossing out those he considered unruly and admonishing one protesting defendant: You think courts were better under Saddam? It’s a far cry from the style of Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman‘s predecessor, …

Intel Corp. (INTC) said on Wednesday it had made the world’s first microchip using tiny ew manufacturing methods that promise to let the world’s top chipmaker make more powerful, efficient processors. The fingernail-sized memory chip is etched with 1 billion transistors that are only 45 nanometers wide — about 1,000 …

WASHINGTON – Trying to calm anxieties about soaring energy costs, President Bush is using his State of the Union address this week to focus on a package of energy of proposals aimed at bringing fuel-saving technologies out of the lab and into use. In Bush’s vision, drivers will stop at …

NEW YORK – Gov. George Pataki on Tuesday proposed spending $80 million to construct a visitors center on the World Trade Center site, marking the first time state government has offered money to help rebuild any of the 16 acres of ground zero. Pataki said the proposed donation to the …

WASHINGTON – Treatment with antidepressants increases the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in patients age 24 and younger, according to proposed changes to the drugs’ labels unveiled Wednesday by federal health officials. The proposed changes would expand a warning now on the labels that applies only to children and …

WASHINGTON – NASA may be going to the same old moon with a ship that looks a lot like a 1960s Apollo capsule, but the space agency said Monday that it’s going to do something dramatically different this time: Stay there. Unveiling the agency’s bold plan for a return to …

GREEN OAK TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Victoria’s secret isn’t sitting well with some residents in Livingston County. A lingerie display at a Victoria’s Secret store in the new Green Oak Village Place mall has stimulated a boycott, protest letters and spun off picketers at another lingerie and adult novelty store in …

RALEIGH, N.C. – Officials rescinded a murder charge Tuesday against a sheriff’s deputy accused of shooting an unarmed teenager who authorities believed had stolen video game consoles, after a grand jury foreman said he had checked the wrong box. The dismissal came a day after New Hanover County District Attorney …

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats plan to use their newfound power to revisit one of the most contentious national security matters of 2006: Deciding what legal rights must be protected for detainees held in the war on terrorism. In September, Congress passed a bill that gave President Bush wide latitude in …