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Warning: Don't get lost in New Hampshire
September 24, 2009 at 1:33 am

When New Hampshire lawmakers decided to bill negligent hikers for their rescues, they figured they would solve some budget problems ...



G-20 leaders look to shake off lingering economic woes
September 24, 2009 at 1:33 am

When world leaders gathered in April to coordinate action on the international economy, it was in shambles. Billions of dollars ...



Flooding in Southeast hits homes, roads hard
September 24, 2009 at 1:01 am

More than 1,500 homes were flooded in days of rain that inundated the Southeast, but the damage to buildings, bridges and roads ...



Study: 1 in 3 homes in metro areas could pose health risks
September 24, 2009 at 12:59 am

One in three homes in U.S. metropolitan areas have at least one problem such as water leaks, peeling paint, holes or rodents ...



For ACORN, controversy now a matter of survival
September 24, 2009 at 12:23 am

Videos showing ACORN workers giving advice to conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute are raising questions ...



N.Y. town orders Gadhafi to take down tent on Trump estate
September 24, 2009 at 12:09 am

People here claimed victory Wednesday after Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi folded the big tent he had pitched on a hilltop estate ...



Vietnam, other nations look to U.S.-style community colleges
September 23, 2009 at 9:19 pm

Developing countries are tapping into U.S. community college expertise as they diversify their higher education systems.



U.S. community colleges strive to boost study-abroad programs
September 23, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Community colleges, acknowledging increased attention to their role in preparing today's workforce for a global economy, are ...



U.S. college recruiters find growing market overseas, in Vietnam
September 23, 2009 at 9:08 pm

Other countries may send more students to the USA, but enrollment of Vietnamese students in U.S. colleges and universities is ...



Stimulus funds boost number of federal jobs
September 23, 2009 at 8:52 pm

The $787 billion economic recovery package also is stimulating growth in the federal government as agencies hire thousands ...



Costs weigh heavy as families plan for college
September 23, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Cost has increasingly become a deciding factor in where students enroll in college, but the economic downturn has made this back-to-school ...



Iran's president rails against capitalism
September 23, 2009 at 8:25 pm

Under increasing attack over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the U.N. General Assembly ...



Purple-garbed stars support the fight against Alzheimer's
September 23, 2009 at 8:22 pm

Mix celebs and a catchy contest and the Alzheimer's Association is hoping to grab attention for a rapidly growing disease. The ...



Sheriff: Slain Ill. family members not shot
September 23, 2009 at 8:11 pm

A sheriff said Wednesday that autopsies on five members of a family found slain in their central Illinois home revealed that ...



Mass. lawmakers approve Kennedy succession change
September 23, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Massachusetts lawmakers fulfilled Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's dying wish Wednesday, granting the governor the power to appoint an ...



AP: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body
September 23, 2009 at 6:16 pm

The FBI is investigating whether anti-government sentiment led to the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. ...



Obama education chief Duncan to push schools reform
September 23, 2009 at 5:48 pm

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to challenge educators, civil rights groups and others to put aside "tired arguments" ...



Saudi Arabia inaugurates its first coed university
September 23, 2009 at 3:36 pm

Saudi Arabia inaugurated on Wednesday its first-ever fully integrated coed university, and its ruler declared the institution ...



Bombs kill 11 in Iraq's capital, northern city
September 23, 2009 at 3:20 pm

A bomb exploded Wednesday outside a home in southwestern Baghdad, killing a woman and her two children, as other bombings killed ...



Dalai Lama: MLK assassination site sad, inspiring
September 23, 2009 at 3:16 pm

The Dalai Lama says his visit to the site where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated was sad but also inspirational.



Senators spar on health bill's effect on seniors
September 23, 2009 at 2:29 pm

Republicans argued health legislation would hurt seniors and Democrats said it would do nothing of the sort as the Senate Finance ...



4 arrested in Ill. dogfighting ring at day care
September 23, 2009 at 1:58 pm

Police say four people who allegedly operated a "horrific" dogfighting ring out of a suburban Chicago home day care have been ...



20 die in chimney collapse in India
September 23, 2009 at 1:53 pm

A large chimney under construction at a power plant in central India collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and injuring ...



Obama outlines new international goals
September 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm

President Obama said Wednesday that the United States "stands ready to begin a new chapter of international cooperation" that ...



Complaint suggests NYPD misstepped in terror probe
September 23, 2009 at 1:07 pm

Police acting without the FBI's knowledge might have inadvertently helped blow the surveillance of a terrorism suspect and compromised ...



Gadhafi says U.N. failed to stop 65 wars
September 23, 2009 at 12:58 pm

In his first appearance at the world body, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi chastised the United Nations on Wednesday for failing ...



Senate Dems propose surveillance law changes
September 23, 2009 at 12:48 pm

The Obama administration, for a second straight day, frustrated Democratic lawmakers Wednesday by declining to say whether it ...



Ex-girlfriend: Yale murder suspect was controlling
September 23, 2009 at 12:31 pm

A former high school girlfriend of a Yale lab technician charged with murder said Wednesday he was extremely controlling that ...



Red dust storm shrouds Sydney
September 23, 2009 at 12:09 pm

Australia's worst dust storm in 70 years blanketed the heavily populated east coast Wednesday in a cloud of red Outback grit, ...



Gov.: Scandal-plagued U. of Ill. president to resign
September 23, 2009 at 9:39 am

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says the president of the University of Illinois, who has been at the center of an admissions scandal, ...



Wednesday's forecast: Showery in the East; hot, dry West Coast
September 23, 2009 at 8:30 am

Wet weather is forecast to persist across the South as a front continued sweeping through the Eastern USA on Wednesday.



S. Korea approves sale of Apple's iPhone
September 23, 2009 at 6:47 am

South Korea's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday it has given approval for Apple Inc.'s hit iPhone to be sold in the ...



Obama to world: Don't expect America to fix it all
September 23, 2009 at 6:33 am

Seizing a chance to challenge the world, President Obama says the global community is failing its people and fixing that is ...



Palin emerges in Asia with speech to investors
September 23, 2009 at 3:20 am

Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, emerged in Asia on Wednesday ...



Deal on climate change is elusive
September 23, 2009 at 3:06 am

A treaty is supposed to be finalized at talks that start Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, but diplomats have made almost no progress toward ...



Health care: Five faces of the uninsured
September 23, 2009 at 2:38 am

The nation's uninsured are central to the health care debate in Washington and the questions about how and whether to get them ...



Health expense accounts could face cuts
September 23, 2009 at 2:32 am

The health care bill proposed last week by the Senate Finance Committee would pare tax-free health expense accounts.



Health care around the globe
September 23, 2009 at 2:23 am

See how other developed countries provide and pay for health care compared with the U.S. system.



NTSB urges transit systems to address 'safety glitches'
September 23, 2009 at 1:30 am

Mass transit systems around the country could suffer from the same electrical flaw that sent a subway train hurtling into another ...



Many Americans don't want their coverage to be upended
September 23, 2009 at 1:02 am

Only two in 10 Americans say their health insurance coverage and the quality of the health care they receive will improve if ...



Both sides skeptical as Sen. Baucus revises health care bill
September 23, 2009 at 1:01 am

Lawmakers in both parties remained skeptical of a plan to change the nation's health care system despite a push by a key architect ...



Ahmadinejad says he'll seek leniency for U.S. hikers
September 23, 2009 at 12:53 am

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview that he will seek leniency for three American ...



Cronkite records destroyed by FBI
September 23, 2009 at 12:23 am

The FBI destroyed its files on former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite two years ago under a policy that has been criticized ...



Alerts across USA intensify in terror probe
September 23, 2009 at 12:18 am

Federal authorities have issued an unusual flurry of bulletins to police departments across the country warning that sports stadiums, ...



Full moons, late afternoons, Fridays won't faze your doctor
September 23, 2009 at 12:01 am

Is it safer to have elective surgery first thing in the morning rather than in late afternoon, when doctors and nurses might ...



Obama urges Mideast leaders: Find a way forward
September 22, 2009 at 11:59 pm

President Obama's first three-way meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday produced no breakthrough, but Obama billed ...


 

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