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Heavy rains head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar
 YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Heavy rains and another potentially powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday. The U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors. Th... |
China says troops rush to plug dangerous cracks in dam
 HANWANG, China (AP) -- Thousands of Chinese soldiers rushed on Wednesday to repair a dam badly cracked by the country's massive earthquake, while rescuers arrived for the first time in the epicenter of the disaster. China's top economic planning body said that the q... |
Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names
 YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. The United... |
Obama woos working-class voters in Michigan
 STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama, campaigning in a state that poses several problems for him in the fall, appealed to working-class voters Wednesday with a pledge to pump an extra $200 million a year into efforts to revitalize the nation's manuf... |
Inflation pressures ease despite food price jump
 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Inflation pressures eased a bit in April despite the biggest jump in food prices in 18 years. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices edged up 0.2 percent last month, compared to a 0.3 percent rise in March. The lower inflatio... |
More Americans are taking prescription medications
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows. The most widely used drugs are those to lower high blood pressure and cholestero... |
3 in 10 get all or most calls on cell phones
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For nearly three in 10 households, don't even bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional phone. The federal figures, released Wednesday, showed that reliance... |
Winehouse won't be charged in alleged `drug' video
 LONDON (AP) -- Amy Winehouse will not face charges over video footage that allegedly shows her taking drugs, her spokesman said Wednesday. Police questioned the Grammy-winning soul diva for nine hours last week over a January video that appears to show her smoking a... |
10-year-old scholar takes Calif. college by storm
 DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) -- With the end of another school year approaching, college sophomore Moshe Kai Cavalin is cramming for final exams in classes such as advanced mathematics, foreign languages and music. But Cavalin is only 10 years old. And at 4-foot-7, his shoes... |
No. 1 Justine Henin retires from tennis immediately
 LIMELETTE, Belgium (AP) -- Justine Henin retired from tennis Wednesday, an abrupt ending to a short and successful career in which she won seven Grand Slam singles titles and leaves while ranked No. 1. The 25-year-old Belgian made the surprising announcement at a ne... |
Heavy rains head toward cyclone-devastated Myanmar
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Heavy rains and another potentially powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta on Wednesday. The U.N. warned that inadequate relief efforts could lead to a second wave of deaths among the estimated 2 million survivors. Th... |
'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks
HOLYHEAD, Wales (AP) -- A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jo... |
Clinton's W.Va. victory does little to slow Obama
 STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) -- Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more superdelegates, offering fresh recognition from Democratic leaders of his inevitable nomination. An embattled Clinton is urging party... |
`Christine,' `How I Met Your Mother' back on CBS
 NEW YORK (AP) -- CBS has given a new lease on life to Julia Louis-Dreyfus' comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and, perhaps thanks to Britney Spears, the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother." They were among four series considered on the bubble for renewal that C... |
Top-ranked Justine Henin is retiring from tennis
 LIMELETTE, Belgium (AP) -- Justine Henin is retiring from tennis effectively immediately. The 25-year-old Belgian has won seven Grand Slam titles and is the world's top-ranked woman player. She made the announcement Wednesday, less than two weeks before the start of... |
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