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Here’s what is on tap for Friday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET Is Christmas really under attack? We’ll get a fair and balanced debate from talk show hosts Ed Schultz and Pat Campbell. Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart or Vince Young: Who has the best shot at …

WASHINGTON – For the Seton Hall Law School students who’d watched the Manhattan skyline from the windows of their school library as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks unfolded, the chance to take a seminar on terrorism and civil liberties was too good to pass up. Each week for two hours, …

STATELINE, Nev. – A shootout across a high-stakes card room in Harrah‘s Tahoe casino killed one man, injured two sheriff’s deputies and sent gamblers running for the cover Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Investigators were still trying to determine who fired first. They were questioning a woman believed to have been …

BOSTON – Mobster Vincent “The Animal” Ferrara (search) was freed from federal custody Thursday after a judge cut short his prison sentence, ruling that prosecutors may have coerced him into confessing to a murder he didn’t commit. As he left the U.S. Marshal’s Office, Ferrara hugged friends and relatives and …

See you in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… Are newspapers with a liberal agenda feeding the culture war in America? Bill investigates on tonight’s “Factor.” Plus, will it be Hillary Clinton vs. Newt Gingrich in 2008? FNC …

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan – The Kyrgyz parliament on Monday accepted the resignation of ousted President Askar Akayev (search), clearing the way for new presidential elections this summer and giving a stamp of legitimacy to the country’s interim leadership. The legislators voted 38-2 to “suspend Askar Akayev’s presidential powers in connection with …

BOSTON – Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (search) — a Republican and abortion opponent — is vowing to veto a bill that will give scientists more freedom to conduct embryonic stem cell research in the state. The bill could be ready for him as early as this week. State lawmakers say …

Warning that the path to obesity can start during toddler-hood, pediatric experts say parents should make sure 3- and 4-year-olds get an hour of active play each day along with five fruits and vegetables. “We think that may be a vulnerable period to start excess weight gain,” said Dr. Stephen …

NEW YORK – Media group Time Warner Inc. (TWX) and top U.S. cable TV operator Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) are set to pay $18 billion for bankrupt cable operator Adelphia Communications Corp. (search), one source familiar with the matter said. The tentative deal, in cash and stock warrants, appears to beat …

HARTFORD, Conn. – A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University’s ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that …