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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 …