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LOS ANGELES – Nostalgia kicks in at the Emmys even before the curtain goes up. The 57th annual show begins Sunday with video splashed on black-and-white screens in which a quartet of recognizable faces talk about their favorite award moments over the years. Three are earnest. The other is Billy …

WASHINGTON – Kids don’t run outside and play like they used to, and parents say being a couch potato is a major culprit in the growing problem of childhood obesity. Lack of exercise edged out easy access to junk food as the main concern of the 21 percent of parents …

PARIS – Money from the sale of stolen artifacts in Iraq is being used to fund terrorists there, the director of Iraq’s National Museum (search) said Thursday. Donny George told cultural experts at a UNESCO (search) meeting that 15,000 objects had been stolen from the museum and only 4,000 had …

See you weeknights in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… The War on Terror (search) rages on, but has it changed the way Christians see the Muslim world? The son of legendary Reverend Billy Graham gives his thoughts …

WASHINGTON – Foreign travelers from friendly nations won’t immediately be asked to show fingerprint and iris scan data when entering the United States, but could have to in upcoming years under Bush administration plans announced Wednesday. Twenty-seven allied nations — mostly from Europe — whose citizens enjoy visa-free travel rights …

MIAMI – Two fired America West (search) pilots convicted of operating a jetliner while drunk were denied bail Thursday and must remain in jail until sentencing next month. Judge David Young ordered pilot Thomas Cloyd (search), 47, and co-pilot Christopher Hughes (search), 44, held at least another five weeks and …

HOUSTON – Two daughters have sued a synagogue after they found a potato chip can in place of their mother’s remains behind the locked, glass door of her niche in a mausoleum. When the women visited Vivian Shulman Lieberman’s niche in a Houston mausoleum a year ago, they found the …

NEW YORK – No acrobatics, no long shots. Just an overpowering, seven-length victory by Afleet Alex (search) in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown. The Preakness winner came through with his usual burst of speed turning for home, with jockey Jeremy Rose waiting for precisely the …

How does hypnosis work? It may lull brain areas into going along with suggestions made during hypnosis. That theory was tested in a new hypnosis study. In the project, researchers used brain scans to watch the brain under the influence of hypnosis. The experiment was done at Cornell University’s medical …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A panel overseeing NASA‘s (search) resumption of shuttle flights concluded Monday that the space agency has failed to meet the toughest safety recommendations put in place after the Columbia disaster. Despite exhaustive work and considerable progress over the past 2 1/2 years, NASA has been unable …