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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and the Democrats are facing the cruel reality of June. The political blows from the bitter loss in Wisconsin's gubernatorial recall election and last week's abysmal jobs numbers could multiply before the month is out....

huffingtonpost.com | Organized retail crime involves shoplifting with the intent of selling the goods.

There has been a dramatic slowdown in the sale of tickets for London 2012, the BBC has learned, with more set to go on sale on Friday.

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of historic U.S. post offices nationwide face uncertain futures as the U.S. Postal Service downsizes, so preservationists on Wednesday added these American institutions to the list of the country's most endangered historic places.

Post offices will join the list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places as ...

PARIS (AP) -- France's new Socialist government moved Wednesday to lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 years old for certain workers, bucking the trend in developed countries in a gesture to unions that critics say is a costly mistake....

The space shuttle Enterprise is making the final leg of its journey to its new Manhattan home at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

President Felipe Calderon signs a law making Mexico only the second country in the world to introduce binding targets on climate change.

rt.com | Eugene Kaspersky's calls for a global effort to halt emerging cyber threats should raise alarm bells.

BEIJING (AP) -- An ailing Chinese labor activist imprisoned for two decades died in a hospital Wednesday one year after being released from jail, and a relative raised doubt on the official explanation that he had hanged himself....

BEIJING (AP) -- An ailing Chinese labor activist imprisoned for two decades died in a hospital Wednesday one year after being released from jail, and a relative raised doubt on the official explanation that he had hanged himself....

Marketing Week | Millionaire super-geek Sean Parker's new 'Airtime' has been described as "Facebook meets Skype".

huffingtonpost.com | Millions of dollars' worth of drugs smuggled aboard commercial flights.

Israel's prime minister orders the construction of 300 new homes at a West Bank settlement after MPs reject a bill to legalise several outposts.

Jonathan Weisman | All of the expiring Bush-era tax cuts should be extended temporarily in the face of a slowing economy.

An art teacher at an independent girls' school who was sacked after becoming pregnant has won her case of unfair dismissal.

John Myers | Violence on the streets by an armed “irascible and vocal Majority.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ray Bradbury anticipated iPods, interactive television, electronic surveillance and live, sensational media events, including televised police pursuits - and not necessarily as good things....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A 15-year-old boy accused of shooting his older sister three times in the head as she slept at their rural Arkansas home pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder in exchange for a 45-year prison term....

Bill Clinton has come out of retirement to campaign for Pres. Obama: WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton made fun of Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) Monday night for saying that dozens of House Democrats are members of the Communist party. During a campaign event in New York City, Clinton praised President Barack Obama for stabilizing the economy and for health care reform, and noted that ObamaRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.com1

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is warning Syria that U.N. sanctions may be near, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton heads Wednesday to Turkey to talk strategy with America's allies and look for a way to win Russia's support for a transition plan ending the Assad regime....