Anxiety builds in nation’s midsection as massive storm is expected to dump snow and ice on the region this week
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Intel Corp found a defect in one of its chips, hurting its credibility during a major product launch and at a time when demand for microprocessors in PCs is being threatened.
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Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a leaked diplomatic document wrongly implies that he acted on behalf of the U.S. during negotiations on lifting Cuba’s suspension from the Organization of American States.
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An Oakland Elementary school was on lockdown after a caller told authorities that a gunman had entered a portable classroom, KTVU reports.
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Calling the system for awarding residency to high-end immigrant workers “riddled with loopholes,” a Republican and Democratic senator have asked Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to respond to long-standing problems in the H-1B visa program.
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The majority of high-school biology teachers don’t take a solid stance on evolution with their students, mostly to avoid conflicts, and fewer than 30 percent of teachers take an adamant pro-evolutionary stance on the topic, a new study finds. And 13 percent of these teachers advocate creationism in their classrooms.
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This Mediterranean coastal city is a bastion of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, and perhaps nowhere else are the strengths — and the weaknesses — of the powerful fundamentalist movement clearer as Egypt explodes with protests aimed at removing its long-ruling president.
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Twenty-five people were arrested for trespassing Sunday as hundreds protested outside a strategy session of conservative political donors at a resort near Palm Springs, authorities said. …
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The United States will not default on its obligations, but must reduce spending at the same time it raises its debt limit, House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday.