With Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani out of the presidential race, New York is back in the role it has played in presidential elections for the past 20 years.
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Stocks seesawed Tuesday as investors try to determine just how precarious the nation's financial situation is.
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Officials announced a "look and leave" policy which will allow residents, homeowners and others with proper identification to get on the island to check on their property.
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A lot of very smart people did a lot of very stupid things to cause this financial crisis. But the reason is no mystery. They got greedy. The government, meanwhile, was deaf to years of warnings that this would happen.
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David Petraeus, the American general leading U.S. and coalition forces relinquished command Tuesday to Gen. Ray Odierno.
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Even after an extra U.S. Army brigade joins the fight against the insurgency in Afghanistan next January, three times that many...
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Soldiers arrested an opposition governor on suspicion of directing a massacre of government supporters.
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That's not a job they're seeking, Carly Fiorina adds. But an Obama spokesman says that means they shouldn't run the economy, either.
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Police are trying to find a woman who apparently drugged a Republican National Convention delegate and robbed him of about $50,000.
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Five state Republican lawmakers want a judge to stop an investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of a public safety commissioner.
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Investigators were conducting a test to determine when the engineers of two trains were able to see each other before a deadly head-on...
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New rules for national security investigations will help protect Americans from terror attacks, the FBI Director told U.S. lawmakers.
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County judge says they're looking for big cat that escaped on Bolivar peninsula during Hurricane Ike.
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For the first time, a large, population-based study links a chemical in plastic baby bottles to heart disease and diabetes in humans.
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The government closed U.S. borders to more than 30 generic drugs including popular antibiotics and cholesterol medicines.
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Now more than ever, House is about House. On Tuesday, in a carry-over from last season's brilliant finale, Dr. House is firmly in...
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Carrie Fisher's role as Rosemary Howard, a nutty TV writer from the '70s on 30 Rock, has finally earned the actress an Emmy nomination.
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With a $90 million payroll in a small market, a quarter century of playoff-less history weighing on them and the clock ticking on the time...
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By Jason E. Miczek, Reuters
No lead is too safe these days, unless you're playing against the Rams.
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A Pew Internet & American Life Project survey found nearly all American kids, girls included, play video games of one kind or another.
