If California experienced a Chile earthquake, strict building codes and a culture of preparedness are on its side, but citizens have to take responsibility, observers say.
The accounts of Gov. David A. Paterson’s actions provide the first evidence that he helped direct an effort to influence a woman who was making abuse charges against his aide.
An analysis of U.S. federal documents showed that many Camrys built before 2007 — and not covered in recent recalls — were linked to speed control problems.
Harold E. Ford Jr., a former Tennessee congressman, said he did not want a tough primary fight in New York to endanger the Democrats’ majority in the Senate.
AP - A small number of House Democrats who opposed health overhaul legislation on the first go-round may be President Barack Obama's most important constituency when he unveils a revised proposal on Wednesday.
AP - Jobless benefits suddenly ended for some laid-off workers, Medicare payments to doctors were delayed and 2,000 federal transportation workers were sent home Monday in a spending dispute tinged with election-year politics.
AP - It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate — a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request.
Airlines canceled flights and offered to reschedule others as a developing low-pressure system threatened to spread snow across parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
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