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The risk of America running out of money to pay its bills including to holders of its debt receded as House speaker John Boehner proposed a short-term increase in the debt ceiling in return for President Barack Obama agreeing thereafter to negotiate on the full gamut of fiscal problems. Stocks on...
OTARI NATIVO, Peru — Peru's Ashaninka Indians share the world's top coca-growing valley with drug traffickers, rebels, illegal loggers and, now, an increased military presence. The Ashaninka are the largest indigenous group in Peru's sparsely populated Amazon region but they...
Carlos Gutierrez won't allow a vicious attack by extortionists get him down. His feet were chopped off in Mexico when he could no longer pay a "quota" and now he plans to bring attention to the corruption and impunity criminals have in Mexico. He plans to pedal his bicycle from El Paso to...
The risk of the United States running out of money to pay its bills including to holders of its debt as early as next week may be receding amidst reports that the speaker of the House, John Boehner, has asked Republicans to follow him in allowing a short-term increase in the debt ceiling. Stocks on...
NASA is trying to resolve an international spat over banning Chinese scientists from a planetary conference, but efforts to do so are being hampered by the US government shutdown, a meeting organizer said on Wednesday. Some leading US astronomers have vowed to boycott the conference next month at a...
Two former Navy football players will face a court-martial in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a female midshipman at an off-campus party in April 2012, U.S. Naval Academy officials said Thursday. The two midshipmen are Joshua Tate, 21, of Nashville, who is charged with aggravated...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A former Fort Carson soldier will serve 32 years in prison after pleading guilty in the death of his...
