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The prickly plants started in Catalina Sanchez's garden and now stretch across her neighbors' fields as far as the eye can see. They pop up on acre after acre as word gets around: This village of dirt floors and outdoor toilets expects to get rich...

Do Sao Mai is 21 years old and an international studies major at college who learned to speak flawless English because "when I was 14, I loved the Backstreet Boys." She is also given to analyzing other young Vietnamese, like her classmate Chi Mai,...

WASHINGTON - The world's most exclusive financial club sought to project an air of confidence on the heels of unsettling economic developments - a stomach-churning drop on Wall Street and gyrating global energy prices. But Treasury Secretary John Snow,...

The U.S. and the European Union averted a trade war Tuesday by agreeing to talks aimed at cutting government subsidies to Chicago-based Boeing Co. and Airbus SAS. The negotiations mean that, at least for now, the two sides will not pursue their claims of...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said today that a U.S. military unit removed and destroyed 250 tons of munitions from a weapons depot, but it has been unable to determine whether the cache was the same one at issue in recent presidential campaign...

On April 18, 2003, a television news crew from Minnesota videotaped U.S. troops in Iraq using bolt cutters to break through chains and wire seals on the door of a dusty bunker and finding explosives stored inside. The video did not appear significant...

When the Thunderbird Mine shut down in May 2003, Chuck Schanno figured he had seen the last of his days working in Minnesota's open-pit iron mines. Schanno, 48, got a new job maintaining telephone lines for Minnesota Power. The job security was a relief,...

VIENNA — Iran has made steady progress toward producing nuclear fuel and could make significant quantities of enriched uranium in less than a year, according to new estimates by diplomats, scientists and intelligence officials. Mastering enrichment...

Financial markets rebounded today from morning losses in the wake of a heightened terrorist alert that left many of the nation's most prominent financial institutions -- including the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan and the International Monetary...

Financial markets rebounded today from morning losses in the wake of a heightened terrorist alert that left many of the nation's most prominent financial institutions — including the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan and the International...

LARRY KING, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you very much. Good evening, everybody, from this beautiful university, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, before a wonderful crowd of folks. There are four Democratic candidates, myself and two questioners...

LONDON - American officials uneasy at the prospect of spending more than $20 billion over the next year to begin rebuilding Iraq are unlikely to get significant financial help from an international donors conference that opens tomorrow in Madrid, and...