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In Washington, D.C., police are investigating a loaded assault weapon found in a parking lot a block from the Supreme Court, a law enforcement official said Friday.

President Bush will speak in Philadelphia Monday as he continues his campaign to bolster sagging domestic support for the war in Iraq. But opposition Democrats are far from unified on what they believe should be done in Iraq.

The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert Friday involving Biaxin, an antibiotic made by Abbott Laboratories.The agency issued an alert to patients and health care professionals discussing a study done on patients with heart disease in Denmark. Biaxin, known generically as clarithromycin, was associated with a “higher chance of death from heart problems,” the FDA said. The study was published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.

Yahoo continues with its Web 2.0 makeover. The company snapped up the bookmarking service del.icio.us today, according to a post by founder Joshua Schachter on his website. “We look forward to bringing you new features and more servers in the future,” he writes. (Scale matters!) Jeremy gives Yahoo’s take!

Scientists from Bar-Ilan University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology say that using nanotechnology, they have discovered a material 40 times harder than diamond.

A key prewar Bush administration claim about ties between Iraq and al-Qaida reportedly came from a prisoner who said he made it up to avoid harsh treatment.

Prominent Sunni Arab clerics and residents of a Baghdad neighborhood where four kidnapped Christian humanitarian workers had aided people appealed Friday for their release a day before a deadline set by their abductors to kill them.

To contain the force of an exploding bomb, you need steel plate or concrete, and lots of it, right? Not according to a BlastGard International Inc., a startup in Clearwater, Fla., that makes a blast-dampening material out of volcanic glass, sealed in food-packaging plastic.

Two Playboy playmates found themselves in trouble after apparently getting drunk and unruly on a Frontier Airlines flight out of Denver International Airport last weekend.

University of Floriday scientists have developed a neural network using rat brain cells and taught it how to fly a plane.