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PARIS – Thousands of Parisian police guarded the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysees and train stations on Saturday, as part of emergency measures enacted in response to text messages and Internet postings that called for “violent actions” in the capital. In Lyon, France’s third largest city, police fired tear gas …

NEW YORK – 50 Cent will again turn his reality into fiction with a new line of hip-hop novellas and graphic novels featuring his former G-Unit rap crew buddies, a publisher announced. Pocket/MTV Books promised the venture would showcase “gritty” stories and cover much of the same terrain as 50 …

Eating an apple a day may help guard against breast cancer (search), say Cornell University researchers. If you’re going to act on the finding — which comes from lab tests on rats — grab an apple instead of reaching for vitamins and supplements from bottles, suggest the researchers. Studies have …

NEWARK, N.J. – Although Toys R Us Inc. (TOY), the nation’s second biggest toy retailer, has reportedly narrowed the field of potential buyers of its toy operation to four groups, analysts said Tuesday they believe that most of the toy stores will be preserved. The industry observers have waited a …

See you in the No Spin Zone at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! Tonight … “The O’Reilly Factor” is on… Man or a Mouse? Scientists want to implant human brain cells into mice —Now ethicists say they smell a rat! Just how far will they go? Don’t miss this …

DUNEDIN, Fla. – As a hospice volunteer, George Felos (search) has sat with people as they took their last breaths. As an attorney, he has guided dozens of families through the painful legal process of honoring their loved one’s last wishes. The case of Terri Schiavo (search), who died Thursday, …

ASPEN, Colo. – Johnny Depp (search) and Bill Murray (search), who both portrayed Hunter S. Thompson (search) in films, joined Sean Penn, Jack Nicholson and others over the weekend to remember the gonzo journalist at a private memorial. Depp, who played the part of Thompson in “Fear and Loathing in …

ROME – The Italian government on Tuesday disputed key points in Washington’s account of the fatal shooting by U.S. soldiers of an Italian intelligence officer as he was accompanying a just-liberated hostage toward Baghdad airport. But Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini (search) said claims that U.S. forces intentionally ambushed the car …

ATLANTA – Storms packing large hail, lightning and drenching rain pounded the Southeast over the weekend, injuring motorists in Georgia and Mississippi and flooding rivers and streets across the region. In northwest Atlanta, the grandchildren of one woman had to be rescued from her house because of Sunday’s rising floodwaters. …

ORLANDO, Fla. – Mayor Buddy Dyer (search), his campaign manager and a judge surrendered Friday on a felony charge that they paid for the collection of absentee ballots in last year’s election. Dyer, Judge Alan Apte and campaign manager Patti Sharp surrendered at the Orange County Jail. None spoke to …