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• Iraq pressured on future of U.S. troops
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi foreign minister said Tuesday it will require "bold political decisions" to resolve the major issue standing in the way of a deal allowing American troops to remain here next year — who would try U.S. troops accused of crimes ...
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WASHINGTON - Americans' retirement plans have lost as much as $2 trillion — or about 20 percent overall — in the past 15 months, Congress' top budget analyst estimated Tuesday. The upheaval that has engulfed the financial industry and sent the ...
• Insurance giant AIG's role in market crisis probed
WASHINGTON - Executives at the American International Group Inc. hid from its auditors the full range of risky practices at its financial products division even as losses mounted, according to documents obtained by a congressional panel examining ...
• Guess what? There's no harm in a little gossip
My office is a 10-minute walk from where I live, and most mornings, I spend that time on the phone chatting with one of my friends. Our topics vary in significance — a friend may have gotten pregnant, a new job, or some new shoes. Sometimes we are ...
• Stepbrother charged in N.Y. girl's death
FULTON, N.Y. - A man was charged Tuesday in the strangling death of his 11-year-old stepsister who was starved by her parents and slept a locked room inside an upstate NY house filled with garbage and more than 100 cats, police said. Alan Jones, 27 ...