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Blame for typhoon toll assessed

WASHINGTON – Nature and man together cooked up the disaster in the Philippines. Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and, to a much lesser d...

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Iran, U.S. trade blame over failed nuke deal DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Iran and the United States on Monday blamed each other for the failure to reach agreement on a deal to l...

Google to put sails on its Calif. barge

SAN FRANCISCO – Google plans to include a dozen or so massive sails on its four-story barge under construction in the heart of the San Francisco Bay, creating a floating artistic structure t...

Health-care law’s troubles give GOP a boost

WASHINGTON – The health-care law’s seemingly endless problems are giving congressional Republicans a much-needed boost of energy, helping them to move past the government-shutdown debacle an...

Height of 1 World Trade Center debated in Chicago

CHICAGO – Rising from the ashes of Sept. 11, the new World Trade Center tower has punched above the New York skyline to reach its powerfully symbolic height of 1,776 feet and become the tall...

Obama’s green energy push has dirty side

Promised ethanol benefits never come, but costs are plenty

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NYC moves reverse stop-frisk decision NEW YORK – Attorneys for New York City asked a federal appeals court to vacate a judge’s orders that require the police department to change ...

Typhoon survivors struggle for aid

Thousands dead in the Philippines

For boomers, JFK death ripples

We cannot get past it, we Americans. Not a half-century later. Maybe not even ever. The president with the easy grin in whom so much hope was invested. His wife, forever frozen in...

Without smartphone, Zapruder caught it all

Movie remains vital evidence of Kennedy assassination

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Syrian rebels launch counteroffensive BEIRUT – Syrian rebels launched a counteroffensive in the northern city of Aleppo, recapturing a base near its international airport hours af...

Typhoon ravages Philippine city

About 10,000 dead in province