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Tropical Storm Isaias is forecast to strike the US Gulf Coast as a hurricane
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Sources: New Obama offer moves toward Boehner
Stocks edge lower
NEW YORK - Apple, the most valuable company in the U.S., slumped Friday, helping to drag down the stock market. A lack of progress in federal budget talks also discouraged investors.
Globes go big with heavy lineup of studio films
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A fairly predictable Golden Globes lineup has one thing that's become rarer in awards season: a solid presence of big studio favorites to balance the independent films that have come to domi…
Musicians turn out for Sandy benefit concert
NEW YORK - Call the "12-12-12" benefit show "The Concert for New York City" 2.0. Eleven years after the benefit concert in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist a…
Holiday travel busiest in six years
NEW YORK - This Christmas travel season could be the busiest in six years, with AAA predicting that 93.3 million Americans will hit the road. That's 1.6 percen…
Cracking Christmas trees' DNA code
NEW YORK - To millions of people, the Christmas tree is a cheerful sight. To scientists who decipher the DNA codes of plants and animals, it's a monster.
Night negotiations
WASHINGTON - Face to face with time running short, President Barack Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner negotiated at the White House on Thursday night in what aides called "frank" talks aimed at breaki…
Decision time
WASHINGTON - Nineteen states have turned down the Obama administration's invitation to run the new health insurance markets that will begin serving millions of uninsured Americans less than a year from now. That pu…
As population grows, Colorado River seen as a depleting regional resource
LAS VEGAS - The federal government isn't going to tap the Missouri River to slake the thirst of a drought-parched Southwest, the government's top water official said Wednesday.
U.S. economy could withstand brief fall off 'cliff'
WASHINGTON - It's the scenario that's been spooking employers and investors and slowing the U.S. economy:
Indian sitar virtuoso Shankar dies at 92
NEW YORK - The kids at first didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival, in…
Early slides don't worry Wyoming skiers
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Big, new snow is already avalanching in the mountains around Jackson Hole, but that's not necessarily setting a dangerous pattern for snow slides in that area this winter.
Michigan lawmakers approve right-to-work bills
LANSING, Mich. - As the chants of angry protesters filled the Capitol, Michigan lawmakers gave final approval Tuesday to right-to-work legislation, dealing a devastating and once-unthinkable defeat to organized lab…
Fiscal cliff talks: Private bargaining, public wrangling
WASHINGTON - In a test of divided government, the White House and congressional Republicans bargained in secret and sparred in public Tuesday over a deal to prevent year-end tax increases for middle class millions …