WASHINGTON - The Obama administration joined a federal judge Wednesday in urging Congress to end a racial disparity by equalizing prison sentences for dealing and...
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SEATTLE - The city of Seattle and Nissan North America said Tuesday they will work together to promote the development of an electric car charging network in Seattle....
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea warned Wednesday it will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile — or even carry out another nuclear test —...
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CAIRO – Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu even though no...
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Two Olympic medalists — one gold and one silver — from the Beijing Games had eight fleeting months to celebrate their performances last summer. But...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will sign wide-ranging, pro-consumer credit card reforms into law by late May, senior U.S. House Democrat Carolyn...
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WASHINGTON – Virulent swine flu spread to at least 10 U.S. states from coast to coast Wednesday and swept deeper into Europe, extending its global reach as...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts authorities on Wednesday confirmed two cases of H1N1 swine flu, the first official reported cases of the virus in the New England...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 17 people were killed and 48 wounded on Wednesday when two car bombs exploded in a busy market in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, police...
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Believing in a higher power alters your grey matter, says a neuroscientist with the scans to prove it. Partial Q/A with Author Andrew Newberg A neuroscientist at...
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A Taliban leader has instructed fighters in Afghanistan to target U.S. and other coalition troops in response to the United States sending more troops into the war....
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The Justice Department is looking into whether a 2008 settlement between Google and authors and publishers over the search giant’s Book Search service could be...
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WASHINGTON – More than 50 million retirees can expect to receive $250 payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of the economic stimulus...
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WASHINGTON - The economy shrank at a worse-than-expected 6.1 percent pace at the start of this year as sharp cutbacks by businesses and the biggest drop in U.S....
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WASHINGTON - A government official confirmed the first U.S. death from the new H1N1 swine flu on Wednesday, a 23-month-old child who died in Texas. It is the first...
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A 23-month-old child in Texas is the first person known to have died of swine flu outside Mexico, where it may have killed as many as 159 people. Officials in...
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The air that most Americans breathe may not be as clean as they think -- depending on where they live, at least. Roughly 60 percent of Americans live in areas...
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The Supreme Court deleted expletives left and right Tuesday in narrowly upholding a government policy that threatens broadcasters with fines over the use of even a...
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Catch the Original 1939 'A' Train With the Duke Ellington Orchestra on a Once in a Lifetime Trip Through Time and the Subway Tunnels of New York. Mayor...
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Congress' decision to extend a key provision of the Voting Rights Act for 25 years is at the core of a case being argued before the Supreme Court. (Photo: Don...
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