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With the market for electronic books still relatively sleepy, Sony Corp. is trying a new tack: untethering the latest model of its e-book reading device from its own...
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Amazon.com Inc. doesn’t seem to be bothered by high gas prices or the sputtering U.S. economy.
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The State Department has proposed shifting about two-thirds of its proposed aid to Pakistan’s anti-terrorism programs to help the key U.S. ally upgrade its aging...
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A teenager wielding a knife died after police shot him with a Taser, the latest in a string of deaths linked to the stun guns, officials said Wednesday.
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The Hong Kong-based operator of a container ship that struck a bridge support in the San Francisco Bay last year has been indicted for allegedly doctoring paperwork in...
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More than 30 actors dissatisfied with stalled contract talks said Wednesday they have joined to campaign for seats on the Screen Actors Guild’s board of...
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Forecasters say Dolly has weakened to a tropical storm.
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A doctor charged with molesting eight patients was ordered held on $4 million bail Wednesday as a prosecutor said accusations from seven more patients had surfaced.
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Leaders of a church destroyed on Sept. 11 have surrendered land needed to rebuild the World Trade Center site in a $20 million deal with the government.
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The bubble might have burst for off-Broadway’s “Gazillion Bubbles Show.” Someone has stolen the show’s specialized soapy bubble solution, which...
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The employer of a pregnant teenager who died of heat stroke after pruning grapevines for nine hours in hot weather was hit Wednesday with the highest fine ever issued...
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Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.
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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said Kevin Johnson, the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations and an instrumental player in the company’s failed...
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Barack Obama is going for the gold.
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Microsoft Corp. says the executive in charge of its Windows and Web operations is leaving the company.
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A former police officer and a neighbor said Wednesday that a Georgia grandmother who now has five dead spouses tried to hire them to kill her fourth husband more than...
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Official inflation soared to 2.2 million percent in Zimbabwe _ by far the highest in the world _ and has shot as high as 70 million percent in the past year for some...
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A senior British intelligence official has emerged from a coma 10 days after he collapsed at home.
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A former prosecutor was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison for having sex with boys, after her 16-year-old daughter told the judge she and her mother had...
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Britain’s senior intelligence official has been rushed to a London hospital after falling into a coma, officials said Friday, but foul play is not suspected in...
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Official says 13 people have been killed and several are missing after the bus they were traveling in plunged into a river in Nepal’s mountainous west.
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Official results for Kuwait’s parliamentary elections show strong gains for Muslim hardliners. But women candidates failed to win a single seat.
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Official results released Tuesday confirmed President Filip Vujanovic’s strong re-election win.
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A top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will resign after being caught at a border crossing with 3,000 contraband cell phones in his trunk.
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The well-known civilian spokesman for the Baghdad security operation was released Monday after he was kidnapped in the capital.
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A news agency says a local government in central China has stripped an official who died drinking in a karaoke bar of a merit award after an outcry on the Internet.
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A state lawmaker wants to give the “King of Beers” its own kingdom by making Budweiser the official beer of Missouri.
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A South Carolina agriculture official accused of abusing horses has resigned, an agency official said Friday.
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A Bush administration official apologized Tuesday to a federal judge in urging that he not hold the U.S. Forest Service’s use of a fire retardant that...
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The former spokesman for Florida’s child welfare agency paid two 16-year-old boys for sexually explicit photos of themselves and then brokered the images to...
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Derek Jeter participates in his first official shave with a Gillette Fusion razor while being announced as the newest Gillette Champion, at The Times Center in New York City on June 30, 2008. Globally, The Gillette Champions program features sports icons...
