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WASHINGTON – A second manufacturer of silicone gel-filled breast implants (search) moved a step closer to returning the implants to the market Wednesday, when the FDA announced that the company’s products can be approved under certain conditions. The Food and Drug Administration did not detail what conditions were required of …

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel launched a “crushing” retaliation Saturday against Hamas (search) in Gaza with deadly airstrikes, troops massed at the border and a planned ground incursion after militants fired 35 rockets at Israeli towns — their first major attack since the Gaza pullout. Israeli aircraft pounded suspected …

NEW YORK – Carnival Corp. & Plc (CCL), the world’s largest cruise group, on Monday said quarterly earnings rose 11.7 percent as strong demand for its cruises drove ticket prices higher. The operator of the Carnival, Cunard, Princess, Holland America (search) and other cruise brands said earnings for the third …

NEW ORLEANS – Bars, restaurants and shops had just begun showing signs of life when the mayor suspended the reopening of the city and ordered nearly everyone to leave town again as a new hurricane headed toward the Gulf of Mexico. The call for another evacuation came after repeated warnings …

WASHINGTON – A team of investigators is being sent to the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast (search) to follow the money — namely, billions of dollars in relief aid the federal government is pouring into the region without normal contracting safeguards. The 30 Homeland Security Department investigators and auditors are part …

NEW ORLEANS – New Orleans (search) turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. “It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine,” the nation’s homeland security …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” September 7, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Keeping an eye on New Orleans. As you can see, the Coast Guard is still working rescue helicopters over New Orleans. The feds say New Orleans’s …

HOUSTON – The distribution of debit cards to Hurricane Katrina (search) refugees continued Friday as officials worked to avoid some of the chaos from the previous day’s deliveries. Authorities were restricting access to Reliant Park as evacuees in the Astrodome complex began receiving $2,000 debit cards from the Federal Emergency …

WASHINGTON – Inspector general has found no evidence that acting Food and Drug Administration head Lester Crawford (search) had an extramarital affair with an agency employee and acted inappropriately because of it. However, the inquiry by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, cited inconsistencies in …

Many of you have been wondering where the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita came from. Did they or did they not come out of that stormy sea we know as global warming (search)? I must say, I have no basic quarrel with the concept. We do burn a lot of fossil …