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Five years ago, Heather Carter and Marc Gitterle were like many Americans: They lived in a four-bedroom house, they each drove an SUV and they had an awareness of environmental...

Colorful banners, draped across buildings like giant flags, urge people driving through Baltimore's rebuilt downtown neighborhoods to move into the new condos and apartments inside. "Sophisticated Urban Living W/Garage and...

Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting last month, given by three rooftop witnesses and by U.S. soldiers who arrived shortly after the gunfire ended, cast new doubt Friday on statements...

Shane Wallace, an investment banker who played a leading role in several of the largest recent telecommunications mergers, died Tuesday at his home in Greenwich, Conn. He was 38. The...

Turkey reacted angrily Thursday to a U.S. House committee vote to condemn the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I as genocide, recalling its ambassador from Washington...

The Marine Corps is pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and to send Marines instead to Afghanistan to take over the leading role in combat there, according to senior...

Nearly four weeks after the deadly shootings at a central Baghdad square involving the Blackwater USA private security firm, U.S. military officials and Iraqi investigators say the FBI and State...

For American dentists, times have never been better. The same cannot be said for Americans' teeth. With dentists' fees rising far faster than inflation and more than 100 million people...

With winter approaching, and heating costs showing no signs of dropping with the temperature, homeowners will be looking for ways to get the biggest bang for their energy dollar. Lorene...

Women who have more than two alcoholic drinks a day double their risk of endometrial cancer compared with those who drink less, a new study finds. Researchers examined a multiethnic...