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Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world’s fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation’s booming economy, researchers say. The easy-to-cure bacterial infection, which was nearly wiped out in China five decades ago, is now the most …

What you gonna do when they come for you? Get up and run? Out of your wheelchair? From which you’ve repeatedly filed lawsuits for noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act? Sounds good to one Southern California con. Cops say Laura Lee Medley, 35, an activist for the disabled that …

NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday sought to attack the credibility of a Pakistani immigrant accused in a subway bombing plot, suggesting he was an angry young man who was prone to violence. Shahawar Matin Siraj, 23, testified Monday that he never had a violent thought before he met …

RALEIGH, N.C. – A second round of DNA tests shows no conclusive match between any Duke University lacrosse players and a woman who says she was raped at a team party, defense attorneys said. The tests showed genetic material from a “single male source” was found on a vaginal swab …

Google is emerging as the poor man’s Microsoft. The latest evidence of this surfaced June 5, when Google began testing a free, online spreadsheet feature. This is a spreadsheet for soccer moms, Little League baseball coaches, church bazaar organizers, college students or small businesses of less than 10 employees. It’s …

Stocks or bonds? Coffee or tea? John or Paul? We’re all different – that’s why they make vanilla and chocolate ice cream. Different strokes for different folks. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. The choices we make reflect our biases. For instance, some people take more risks with their …

BOSTON – A blitz by federal agents during the last three weeks captured nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country in raids targeting child molesters, violent gang members and past deportees who re-entered the country. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials credited the roundup to a network of 35 fugitive …

WASHINGTON – Numerous federal and local law enforcement agencies have bypassed subpoenas and warrants designed to protect civil liberties and gathered Americans’ personal telephone records from private-sector data brokers. These brokers, many of whom advertise aggressively on the Internet, have gotten into customer accounts online, tricked phone companies into revealing …

WASHINGTON – President Bush asked lawmakers Monday to expand health savings accounts and preserve temporary tax reductions that evaporate at the end of the decade. The entire package of tax proposals contained in the budget blueprint would cut more than $1.7 trillion from money expected to flow from taxpayers to …

McKINNEY, Texas – A woman accused of killing her infant daughter by cutting off the girl’s arms had said a few days earlier that she wanted to “give the baby to God,” her husband testified Tuesday. Dena Schlosser, 37, was leaving church about a week before the girl’s November 2004 …