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It's been an intense hurricane season in the Pacific and there's still a long way to go
The most active season on record in the eastern Pacific was 1992, when there were 25 named storms, Rosencrans said…
Netflix facing protests over baby benefit policy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Netflix is getting jeered for excluding the employees in its DVD-by-mail service from a recently introduced benefit that gives up to a year of paid leave to most of its workers after the birth …
Three firefighters mourned in Washington
TWISP, Wash. - The firefighters - members of a specially trained unit that is sent into danger ahead of everyone else to size up a wildfire - rushed up a narro…
Three Washington firefighters killed
TWISP, Wash. - Three firefighters were killed and three to four others were injured, at least one critically, as raging wildfires advanced on towns in north-ce…
Turnaround takes hold
NEW YORK - Target is on its way back.
Stocks lower as Fed minutes keep rate increase in play
NEW YORK - Stocks posted solid losses on Wednesday as investors got mixed signals from the Federal Reserve over the possibility of an interest rate hike in September. Energy stocks fell as the price of oil plummete…
Mormon women named to councils previously reserved for men
SALT LAKE CITY - The Mormon church for the first time has appointed women to three high-level church councils previously reserved only for men - a move scholars and Latter-day Saints feminists say marks a small, bu…
Report: Subway pitchman to admit to child-porn charges
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is expected to plead guilty to child-pornography charges, an Indiana television station reported Tuesday.
Governor balks at pushing right-to-die bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers on Tuesday announced a second attempt at passing right-to-die legislation this year after an earlier measure sta…
Massive blazes drain firefighting resources
CHELAN, Wash. - Wildfires are putting such a strain on the nation's firefighting resources that authorities have activated the military and sought internationa…
The price of reinvention
NEW YORK - Retailers' reinvention plans come with a price tag.
Amazon's data-driven approach becoming more common
California measure fails to create green jobs
More millennials stuck renting for years before buying home
Woman believed to be nation's oldest veteran dies at age 110