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WASHINGTON – Investigators at the Education Department have contacted the U.S. attorney’s office regarding the Bush administration’s hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams (search) to promote its agenda. The action was disclosed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (search), D-N.J., who has pressed for a criminal fraud investigation focused on questions about whether …

ROME – With simulated blasts outside the Colosseum, in a bus near Piazza Navona (search) and in a downtown subway station, Italians on Monday prepared for the possibility the Eternal City may be the target of a terrorist attack. More than 500 police took to Rome’s streets in the second …

LOS ANGELES – Hollywood fashion commentator Steven Cojocaru (search) underwent surgery Monday for removal of a transplanted kidney that had become infected, a spokesman said. Cojocaru, a correspondent for the syndicated Paramount Domestic Television shows “Entertainment Tonight (search)” and “The Insider (search),” was recovering at an undisclosed hospital after the …