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GAZA CITY, Gaza (AP) -- Israel ordered a three-hour pause in its Gaza offensive Wednesday to allow food and fuel to reach besieged Palestinians, and said it welcomed a cease-fire proposal as long as Hamas halts rockets and weapons smuggling....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal budget deficit will hit an unparalleled $1.2 trillion for the 2009 budget year, according to a Capitol Hill aide briefed on new Congressional Budget Office figures....

NEW DELHI (AP) -- "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris is closer to taking President-elect Barack Obama's seat in the Senate, say knowledgeable officials in both parties, despite Democratic leaders' vows to reject any appointee of Gov. Rod Blagojevich....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen pregnancy rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, according to a new federal report released Wednesday....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- David West scored 15 of his 40 points in the fourth quarter, Chris Paul added 32 points and 15 assists, and the New Orleans Hornets beat Los Angeles 116-105 on Tuesday night to snap the Lakers' 15-game home winning streak....

BOSTON (AP) -- Boston College's Jeff Jagodzinski met with New York Jets officials Tuesday to discuss their head coaching vacancy - an interview that was expected to cost him his job with the Eagles....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The New Orleans Saints have confirmed that running back Reggie Bush had surgery on his left knee, and will require months of rehabilitation....

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Coach Bob Stoops believes No. 2 Oklahoma is doing a good job of balancing the anticipation of playing in the BCS national championship with a long layoff leading up to the game....

CHENNAI, India (AP) -- Nikolay Davydenko will miss the Australian Open because of an injury in his left heel....

NEW YORK (AP) -- If Barack Obama wants a surgeon general with visibility to promote health issues in his administration, it can't hurt to hire a CNN correspondent called one of People magazine's "sexiest men alive."...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- The world economy is in dire straits, but you sure wouldn't know it from the red carpet at the 20th-annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. The actresses were dripping with jewels, actors donned high fashion, and logos of jeweler Cartier and automaker Mercedes-Benz loomed large behind all as they posed for photographers....

LONDON (AP) -- Stuck in Britain on Inauguration Day? Madame Tussauds, the London waxwork museum, is offering U.S. tourists the chance to see their new president up close for free....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's another girl for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck....

ATLANTA (AP) -- Rapper T.I. has paid an $8,000 overdue lawyer bill for the mother of two of his sons, telling a judge the debt was an oversight....

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A man's request to dye the Saginaw River emerald green for St. Patrick's Day has raised a red flag among some officials who say the brown-colored tributary may be better left alone....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An Omaha man has filed a lawsuit accusing his ex-wife and former father-in-law of hiding a recording device inside his daughter's teddy bear in order to spy on him....

McMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Lou the mule brayed his way into his owner's heart with a New Year's warning that her rural Tennessee home was on fire....

VAIL, Colo. (AP) -- A guy who dangled upside down from a ski lift with his bare bottom exposed probably doesn't want to hear any "ski bum" jokes. Officials at Vail Resorts in Colorado say the 48-year-old man was trying to get on the Blue Ski basin lift on New Year's Day. They haven't said what went wrong....

CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) -- The Connecticut Department of Development Services has placed an employee on administrative leave after prescription pills were found in a cake served at a home for disabled people....