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$1,350,000,000,000 On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted a $1.35 trillion deficit for this year. The whole sum could be taken care of if every American, all 300 million...

NASA gives up on free Spirit Effort to get Mars rover rolling again is abandoned LOS ANGELES -- The Mars rover Spirit has logged nearly 5 miles during six years...

W. Virginia 62, DePaul 46 No Blue streak Add this to DePaul's list of odd achievements this season: While its meeting with No. 9 West Virginia was never quite a...

Arrests in ACORN phone case A conservative activist who has caused problems for the community organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she resents criticism of the U.S. effort to help stricken Haiti and pledged to redouble efforts to aid survivors of the Jan. 12...

EBay Inc. hopes to lure more sellers by essentially doing away with "listing" fees for people who occasionally auction items on its site. Instead it will take a cut of...

Consumer confidence rose past expectations in January, the third consecutive monthly increase, as Americans begin to feel slightly better about business conditions and the job picture, according to a survey...

Home prices rose for the sixth straight month in November, fueled by tax credits for homebuyers. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index inched up 0.2 percent from October...

The pilot of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight made a "fast and strange turn" minutes after takeoff from Beirut in a thunderstorm, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday, revealing new clues...

Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100. The...