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  • Obama: World has averted economic disaster but full recovery 'still a ways off'

  • L'AQUILA, Italy (AP) — Lasting worldwide recovery "is still a ways off," President Barack Obama declared Friday, but he also said at...

  • Authorities: 4 former workers at historic Ill. cemetery made $300K in gravedigging scheme

  • ALSIP, Ill. (AP) — Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago...

  • Taliban clash with U.S.-led forces in central Afghanistan, up to 22 militants killed

  • KABUL (AP) — Fighting overnight between international troops and Taliban militants in central Afghanistan has left as many as 22...

  • Nearly 60 killed in Iraq bombings

  • Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and...

  • S. Korea says 7 Web sites attacked; effects not serious

  • The third wave of cyber attacks to hit South Korea caused little disruption Thursday, with six of seven Web sites affected quickly back up...

  • Library of Congress adds to storage space at Fort Meade

  • The Library of Congress opened an expanded, environmentally controlled storage facility Tuesday on the grounds of Fort Meade. Librarian of...

  • Madoff won't appeal 150-year sentence in Ponzi scheme

  • Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will not appeal his 150-year sentence for a fraud that unraveled last December when Madoff confessed to...

  • Indonesia's re-elected president will need bold new team to tackle country's corruption woes

  • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The next challenge for Indonesia's president, after winning re-election in a likely landslide, will be...

  • Stalking charges dropped against D.C.'s Barry

  • It started with an arrest, as it often does. There was a woman involved, as there usually is. And there were the denials, controversial...

  • Leaders stop short of steps to curb greenhouse effect

  • The failure to agree on swift, concrete steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the summit meeting of the world's most advanced...

  • Hospitals agree to fee cuts

  • In the face of mounting Republican opposition to its health-care agenda, the Obama administration received a boost Wednesday, winning a...

  • O'Malley open to 2nd stimulus

  • Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that a second economic stimulus package might be needed if the U.S. economy fails to recover, but it's...

  • Man dies after falling into vat of chocolate in N.J.

  • Authorities say a man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.

  • White House, Pentagon among targets of sweeping cyber attack

  • The powerful attack that overwhelmed computers at U.S. and South Korean government agencies for days was even broader than realized, also...

  • Endangered species' DNA to be stored at New York museum

  • It's not your average library collection: Bits of scorpions and snakes. Tissue from jaguars. Leeches from a hippopotamus.

  • Expert says SC serial killer's choice of victims may make motive tougher to find

  • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A peach farmer. A woman and her elderly mother. A furniture store owner and his teenage daughter.

  • Franken takes his Senate seat. No joke.

  • Al Franken, the funnyman who wrote the best-seller Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, was sworn in as the junior...

  • Food-safety fix starts at FDA

  • The Obama administration took the first steps toward modernizing the nation's faltering system for protecting the food supply on Tuesday...

  • President facing challenge with G-8

  • - As President Barack Obama heads for his second economic summit in three months, he's holding stronger cards than he did the last time, but...

  • Sarah Palin's future: Alaska governor vague on plans after resignation

  • - Sporting fishing waders and a T-shirt, Sarah Palin defended her decision to resign as Alaska governor in half a dozen interviews broadcast...

    Meteor's fall triggers cosmic treasure hunt

    With chunks of meteorites fetching thousands of dollars on the commercial market, news of the spectacular meteor that soared over parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania early Monday has touched off a cosmic treasure hunt.

    Meteor lights up Mid-Atlantic area's skies

    Scores of people in Maryland and Pennsylvania who lingered outdoors into the early morning hours Monday were startled by the brilliant flash of a meteor that soared over the Mid-Atlantic states.

    Digging into Maryland's Colonial past

    Digging into Maryland's Colonial past

    Parts of Charles County's Zekiah Swamp are every bit as inhospitable as the name suggests, choked with tick-infested woods and boot-sucking wetlands. But as archaeologists are discovering to their delight, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Zekiah was a growth center for the young Maryland...