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The U.S. decision to list polar bears as a threatened species has indigenous Alaskans like Aalak Nayakik worried that hunting the animals they rely on for food and warmth could be banned.
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Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...
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Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception.
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Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception.
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Calling climate change an urgent challenge, President-elect Barack Obama promised Tuesday that Washington would take a leading role in combating it in the United States...
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Massachusetts’ top securities regulator on Tuesday accused Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. of fraud over the investment bank’s sales of auction-rate securities...
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Hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight is facing felony drug charges and a misdemeanor battery charge in Las Vegas.
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AP, Seattle
A man whose groin was disfigured by a flesh-eating bacteria infection in prison has accepted a $300,000 settlement from the Washington Department of Corrections.
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A Democratic senator says Democrats are letting Sen. Joe Lieberman keep his prized chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee despite supporting Republican...
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AP, Columbus
Oil prices fluctuated Tuesday even as the government reported that gasoline prices recorded their largest drop ever in October and prices for home heating oil, natural...
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AP, Washington
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial...
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A fourth suspect has been arrested in the death of a Long Island lawyer who was shot during a botched ambush robbery that police say was set up by the lawyer’s...
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A Marine who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation wants a federal appeals court to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case.
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Malia and Sasha Obama are in Washington with their mother checking out new schools.
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The father of Chief Justice John Roberts died Tuesday after a long illness, the Supreme Court said.
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AP, Cincinnati
The Kroger Co. has opened its biggest “Fresh Fare” store yet and plans more of the stores aimed at luring eat-at-home and natural foods shoppers.
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AP, Washington
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Tuesday that the administration remains firmly opposed to dipping into the government’s $700 billion financial...
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The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by workers who claimed the...
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AP, Minneapolis
United Airlines said on Tuesday that a federal judge has barred its pilot union and four pilots from activities that disrupt the airline’s activities.
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AP, Little Rock
Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax...
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AP, Los Angeles
Smoky skies cleared and once-whipping winds slowed to a standstill Tuesday, as another wave of those who fled Southern California’s ferocious weekend wildfires...
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The dismissal of a confession that a U.S. military judge said was tortured out of a young Afghan prisoner has “eviscerated” the government’s case...
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A U.S. military judge barred the Pentagon Tuesday from using a Guantanamo prisoner’s confession to Afghan authorities as trial evidence, saying it was obtained...
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AP, Columbus
In an Oct. 15 story about an Ohio Supreme Court ruling on asbestos litigation, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by the court, misstated the vote.
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The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a 2004 law imposing stricter rules on those suing for asbestos-related injuries can be applied to cases pending before the...
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AP, Des Moines
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that former Iowa basketball player Pierre Pierce can leave the state to play professional basketball in France.
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AP, Ankara
A senior ruling party official in Turkey says the government’s advocacy of European Union membership proves the party is not anti-secular.
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AP, Istanbul
Turkey’s top court convened Monday to decide whether the country’s popular ruling party must be banned on charges that it is steering the secular nation...
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AP, Ankara
Turkey’s chief prosecutor has argued in the country’s top court that the ruling Islamic-oriented party be disbanded for undermining secular...
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AP, Washington
The Federal Communications Commission is expected to rule that Verizon Communications Inc. violated privacy laws when it tried to keep phone customers from switching...
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AP, Newark
Internet service providers must not release personal information about users in New Jersey without a valid subpoena, even to police, the state’s highest court...
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AP, Taipei
Taiwan’s losing presidential candidate resigned Wednesday from the chairmanship of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, saying he was taking responsibility...
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The America’s Cup is headed for a rare one-on-one showdown after a New York State Supreme Court judge sided with a U.S. yacht club Tuesday in a legal battle...
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A New York State Supreme Court judge has sided with a U.S. yacht club in an America’s Cup dispute, which could force a rare one-on-one showdown for the oldest...
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AP, Columbus
A judge says Ohio counties don’t have the power to challenge an order from the state’s chief elections officer that they provide a paper ballot to any voter...
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Birds and wireless towers are a deadly mix _ a fact that preservationists and policy makers agree to. But the role of the regulators in keeping the two apart has been...
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AP, Tucson
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to designate 8.6 million acres in four western states as critical habitat for an endangered owl will stand, a federal judge...
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A day after a jury acquitted a man of charges that he helped orchestrate the murder-for-hire of an alleged mob associate, a judge found his co-defendant guilty of the...
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AP, Los Angeles
An immigration board has dismissed a case against two Palestinian men accused of having terrorist ties in a deportation attempt pursued over two decades by the...
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AP, Syracuse
A judge says the federal government can legally withhold the names, salaries and positions of more than 900,000 federal employees from a university agency that for...
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In this Feb. 20, 2008 file photo file photo, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi celebrates in Glasgow, Scotland. FIFA ruled Wednesday July 30, 2008 that clubs must release young players for the Olympic football tournament. A legal advisor sitting as FIFA’s...
