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Now that we’re in the third year of the Age of Wii, Nintendo’s popular console is pretty easy to find. Which means that a lot more people are learning its unpleasant secret: There are a lot of terrible games for this system. The Wii shelves of your local GameStop are …

ISLAMABAD – The Taliban have fled the Pakistani army’s advance on the main town in the Swat Valley, delivering the military a strategic prize in its offensive against militants in the country’s northwest, commanders said Saturday. Taliban fighters had dug themselves into bunkers built into hotels and government buildings in …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan denied it was expanding its nuclear arsenal, a week after the top U.S. military officer said there was evidence it was doing so. Pakistan is battling a growing insurgency by Islamist militants with links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Washington is considering giving it billions of …

DETROIT – Chrysler LLC’s Chapter 11 filing so far doesn’t appear to be affecting May sales, a top executive said Wednesday. Early sales data shows Chrysler is on pace to sell 60,000 to 70,000 vehicles to individuals this month, better than expected considering its April 30 bankruptcy filing, Executive Vice …

San Bernardino County and the FBI are offering separate $25,000 rewards for help solving the kidnapping of 3-year-old Briant Rodriguez. The authorities in California are hoping the public will be able to lead them to the missing boy after a promising lead apparently went nowhere. On Thursday, authorities released a …

WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, making her the first Hispanic in history to be elevated to the high court. Sotomayor, 54, who has been a federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 1998, …

NAZARETH, Israel – When Pope Benedict XVI pays a visit next month to the town where Jesus grew up, he will bring brief attention to a Holy Land destination that is at once world famous and unjustly overlooked. Like the tour groups bused into Nazareth for lightning visits on their …

With more than 23 million doses of swine flu vaccine now available, health officials are visiting vaccine plants to check for any more pending interruptions to what appears to be a slowly but steadily growing supply. About 9 million doses trickled onto the market in the past week alone, and …

NEWRY, Maine – A Maine couple has taken the crown in the North American Wife Carrying Championship over a course that featured a muddy water hole and two log obstacles. Dave and Lacey Castro of Lewiston beat a field of 41 teams to win the competition Saturday at Sunday River …

WASHINGTON – When a recent study conducted for the NFL suggested that retired pro football players may have a higher rate than normal of Alzheimer’s disease or other memory afflictions, the NFL was quick to point out that the study did not prove a link between concussions and memory disorders. …