Pope to write letter on Ireland sex abuse
Pope Benedict XVI is deeply disturbed by a child sex-abuse scandal in Ireland and will write a letter to Catholics there on the church's response to a report that found...
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Report: Overhaul will raise health costs
Democrats trying to push President Barack Obama's health care overhaul plan through the Senate got a sober warning Friday that costs will keep going up and proposed Medicare savings may...
NATION/WORLD
Trade journal dead The journalism trade journal Editor & Publisher is shutting down after 108 years of publication. Editor & Publisher is being closed as its parent company, the Nielsen...
Exports jump; trade deficit falls
The economic recovery is likely to draw strength from exports such as farm products, autos, aircraft and industrial machinery, all of which helped lower the nation's trade deficit in October....
SHORTSTOPS
Saints 1, TV 0 A Louisiana man who bet against the New Orleans Saints has lost his 60-inch high-definition, flat-screen TV to a backyard firing squad, but he also became...
Americans’ wealth grows
Americans grew wealthier for a second consecutive quarter in the third quarter, thanks to gains in stock investments and home values. Net worth -- the value of assets such as...
A man with a van and a plan
Even by starving-grad-student standards, Duke student Ken Ilgunas' campus housing is humble. It is, however, mobile. Ilgunas, 26, is shacking up in a 1994 Ford Econoline as a means of...
NATION & WORLD
'10 deficit ahead of '09's pace Budget imbalance runs for record 14th straight month WASHINGTON -- The federal deficit for the first two months of the new budget year is...
Goldman curbs bonuses
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s top executives will not receive cash bonuses this year, as the Wall Street giant bows to sharp criticism over its pay practices. The 30 executives will...
New leases at Block 37
Which Wich, a sandwich shop, signed a lease for 1,523 square feet in the underground pedway portion of the Block 37 project, developer Joseph Freed and Associates LLC said Thursday....