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SAN JOSE, Calif. – NBC Universal has inked a deal with Apple Computer Inc. to become the latest network to sell television shows a la carte on Apple’s online iTunes store, the companies announced Tuesday. More than 300 episodes from about a dozen prime-time, cable, late-night and classic TV shows …

WASHINGTON – Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was back before a federal grand jury on Wednesday in the CIA leak case, with deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove still under investigation. Since the Oct. 28 indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, two …

NEW YORK – Coca-Cola Co. (KO), the world’s biggest soft drink maker, Wednesday backed its long-term earnings growth target and unveiled a new marketing slogan that welcomes consumers to “The Coke Side of Life.” The announcement came during Coke Chief Executive E. Neville Isdell’s meeting with financial analysts in New …

WASHINGTON – Former U.S. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham has sold his mansion to a publishing heir for $2.6 million, slightly more than he paid for it two years ago. Cunningham, who resigned from Congress after pleading guilty to accepting $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors and others in exchange …

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they’ll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo Inc. and America Online Inc. allow instant messaging users to …

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan – A moderate earthquake Sunday shook Pakistan‘s capital and the country’s northwestern region, still recovering from the devastating Oct. 8 temblor. There were no report of injuries or damage. The quake registered magnitude 5.2, said the state-run Seismological Center in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Buildings shook in …

WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans called separately Sunday for congressional investigations into President Bush’s decision after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to allow domestic eavesdropping without court approval. “The president has, I think, made up a law that we never passed,” said Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis. Sen. Arlen Specter, …

NEW YORK – A police officer who was shot in the heart early Monday during a car chase ignored the wound and helped try to catch the gunman before dying later at a hospital, authorities said. Dillon Stewart, 35, died despite wearing a bulletproof vest. One round entered his left …

LOS ANGELES – Brad Renfro had his arraignment on a drug charge postponed Friday because he has entered a full-time drug rehabilitation program, his lawyer said. The actor’s lawyer, Richard Kaplan, said outside court that his client is “doing fine” in the program and will return to court Jan. 18 …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A roadside bomb killed 10 Marines and wounded 11 others on a foot patrol near Fallujah, the U.S. military announced Friday. It was the deadliest attack against American troops in four months. The ambush occurred Thursday against Marines from Regimental Combat Team 8, based at Camp Lejeune, …