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• More U.S. women dying in childbirth
ATLANTA - U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame. Some ...
• U.S. Web sales move closer to Christmas
LOS ANGELES - U.S. shoppers head to the Web on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a day that has become known as "Cyber Monday," but retailers say peak online shopping is coming later and later in the season as shipping improves. Web retailers anticipate ...
• Fed chairman: U.S. economy will rebound
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke predicted Tuesday the economy will rebound from an anemic performance at the start of the year even if the housing slump continues. Economic growth in the first three months of this year nearly ...
• U.S.: North Korea 'cooperative'
INCHEON, South Korea - North Korea is cooperating with U.S. experts to disable its nuclear weapons-making facilities, a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday after a trip to the communist nation to oversee the start of the work this week. Sung Kim, the State ...
• Clean energy claim: Aluminum in car tanks
... have invented a way to use an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water — a process that he thinks could replace gasoline as well as its pollutants and emissions tied to global warming. But Woodall says there's one big hitch: "Egos" at the U.S ...