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The San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District has imposed a pollution fee of 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses emit. Will this help solve global warming? Heavy taxes on...
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Rescue crews have made verbal contact with two teenage boys who fell through a snow field near a mountain summit east of Seattle.
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Nine polar bears were observed in one day swimming in open ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast, an increase from previous surveys that may indicate warming...
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Search and rescue crews are trying to find two teenagers who apparently fell through a snow field near a mountain summit east of Seattle.
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AP, Columbus
A major voting machine maker has cautioned its customers in 34 states to look out for a programming error that may cause votes to be dropped.
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A FREAKY feline with four ears named after a Star Wars character is so rare its owners have to keep it indoors to stop it from being catnapped.
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Prosecutors reviewing the death of a New York City woman who died in police custody at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport last year said Thursday that they have...
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Days after he cracked that being rich in the U.S. meant earning at least $5 million a year, Republican presidential candidate John McCain acknowledged that he...
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US chemists have identified the odour that emanates from skin cancer, a development that researchers hope will advance diagnosis and treatment of the deadly disease,...
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Residents of a rural Colorado town said a cow named Apple chased off a bear that had climbed into her favorite apple tree.
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Apple has admitted that a battery fault had led to a small number of its first generation iPod Nanos overheating.
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Two vaccines against cervical cancer are being widely used without sufficient evidence about whether they are worth their high cost or even whether they will...
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AP, Pontiac
A 33-year-old man who authorities say wore a “World’s Greatest Dad” T-shirt to have sex with what he believed was a 14-year-old girl has been...
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AP, Centennial
Authorities say a threatening letter containing an unidentified white powder was sent to a John McCain campaign office in the Denver suburb of Centennial, and a similar...
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AP, New York
They had no water, hardly any air and no way out.
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AP, Seattle
Search and rescue crews are trying to dig out two teenagers trapped in a collapsed snow cave near a mountain summit east of Seattle.
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AP, New York
Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
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AP, Los Angeles
It’s Love, Angel, Music, Baby for Gwen Stefani, who’s given birth to her second child, a boy.
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A congressional committee on Thursday asked for an investigation into a counterterrorism database software upgrade that it says is months behind schedule, millions over...
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Military leaders have suspended some activities at biological research laboratories to review safety rules for some of the world’s deadliest germs and toxins,...
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Max Robson, 22, constructed a prototype using rubbish collected from skips, tips and bins including an old bike frame and wheel bearings, the magneto from a Vespa, a...
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The land was once devastated and reduced to piles of rubbles. I am talking about San Francisco Bay Area, which was engulfed by a massive earthquake a hundred years ago...
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Buildings are popping out now and then, here in there every day. And the amount of debris it produces each day is quite irritating. Neither the builders, nr the owners...
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