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Elly Peterson, who started out as a secretary for the Michigan Republican Party, rose to become the national party's assistant chairwoman and advocated a big-tent brand of Republicanism that was...

Donaldson Pillsbury, the lawyer who guided Sotheby's, the auction house, through a welter of legal problems and helped restore its reputation after a price-fixing scandal, died June 12 in Old...

As more opposition supporters in Zimbabwe were reported killed, a prominent African grouping issued unusually blunt public criticism of President Robert Mugabe on Thursday, saying there was "every sign" that...

Four Western oil corporations are in the final stages of negotiations on contracts that would return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam...

Dennis Weatherstone, who helped usher in a new era of banking during the early 1990s as chairman and chief executive at J.P. Morgan, died Friday near his home in Darien,...

Four Western oil corporations are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that would return them to Iraq. The talks came to light as the White House...

The plot to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was so improbable that it sounded like something out of a tale from the tropics, too outlandish even for...

Even very premature babies benefit from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers during painful medical procedures, a Canadian study has found. Researchers studied 61 infants born at 28 to 31 weeks...

The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve more than $1 billion in questionable payments...

Katy Perry "ONE OF THE BOYS" RATING: 2 1/2 EXCLAMATION POINTS On her two hit singles Katy Perry has perfected shock-pop for the Facebook generation. The lackadaisical "Ur So Gay"...