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  • Study: Widespread hunger in Haiti after storms

    Haitians have suffered widespread hunger following an unusually active storm season this year and are likely to experience more, according to a study ... 

  • Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns

    Many motorists don't know it, but it's likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there's a snitch along for the ride. The National Highway ... 

  • APNewsBreak: Dhaka factory lost fire certification

    The factory where 112 garment workers died in a fire should have been shut down months ago. The fire department refused to renew the certification it ... 

  • JAPAN EARTHQUAKE

    Tsunami warning lifted for strong Japan earthquake

    A strong earthquake Friday struck the same Japanese coast devastated by last year's massive quake and tsunami, generating small waves but no immediate ... 

  • Superstorm utility crews complain of payroll delay

    Mike Valaskatgis slept in his National Grid truck for two nights, and then on a cot two more nights before getting a bed in a hotel room during a ... 

  • Safety, need compete in typhoon-hit Philippines

    The Philippine government's geological hazard maps show why this farming community was largely washed away by a strong typhoon: "highly susceptible ... 

  • AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money

    Influential scientists who help set Japan's radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country's nuclear plant operators to ... 

  • Drought revives old water war among river states

    The water wars are raging again in America's heartland, where drought-stricken states are pleading for the increasingly scarce water of the Missouri ... 

  • Tensions mount as UN climate talks near end

    U.N. climate talks are heading into the final stretch with a host of issues unresolved, including a standoff over how much money financially stressed ... 

  • CDC: Language barrier caused chlorine gas leak

    A chlorine gas leak that sickened nearly 200 people at a Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas last year happened because a worker who couldn't read the ... 

  • Bob Manere

    Sandy brings economic booms, busts to Northeast

    On a storm-battered stretch of Connecticut's shoreline, landscaping crews use heavy equipment to repair damage from Superstorm Sandy, racking up ... 

  • Rob Andrews, Pat Meehan, Frank LoBiondo

    US Reps. expect deeper look at NJ derailment

    Federal regulations require inspections of rail bridges and other infrastructure and reports on accidents, but leave it to freight railroad owners to ... 

  • Dutch call off search for 6 missing crewmen

    Rescuers called off search efforts for six missing crewmen Thursday from a cargo ship that sank in the North Sea after a collision with another vessel 

  • South Africa military plane crashes, killing 11

    A South African military aircraft on an unknown mission to an area near former President Nelson Mandela's village crashed in a mountain range, killing ... 

  • Death toll in latest Iran quake rises to 6

    Iran's state TV says the death toll from an earthquake near the border with Afghanistan has risen to six. The report also says 14 people were injured ... 

  • Rare tornado kills 3 in New Zealand's largest city

    An unusually destructive tornado swept through neighborhoods around New Zealand's largest city Thursday, killing three people and forcing 250 more to ... 

  • Rosalinda Pasko

    About 350 die in Philippine typhoon, 400 missing

    A powerful typhoon that washed away emergency shelters, a military camp and possibly entire families in the southern Philippines has killed almost 350 ... 

  • Ship sinks off Dutch coast, 4 dead, 7 crew missing

    Four crew members died and seven were missing in the icy waters of the North Sea, after a cargo ship collided with another vessel and sank off the ... 

  • Michael Astrue

    Social Security fast-tracks rare-disease claims

    In an effort to ease the burden of being stricken with a debilitating condition, the Social Security Administration is expanding a program that ... 

  • Report: Suspect in fatal China fire angry over pay

    Chinese state media quoted a former worker as saying he set the fire that killed 14 young women at a Chinese undergarment factory because he was angry ... 

  • Kirsten Gillibrand

    Democrats: Obama to ask for $50 billion Sandy aid

    President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress for about $50 billion in additional emergency aid for states hit by Superstorm Sandy, Democrats on ... 

  • US hiring last month was likely held back by Sandy

    The combination of U.S. employers that shut down because of Superstorm Sandy and fears over looming tax increases and spending cuts likely slowed ... 

  • Mississippi River dropping slower than expected

    A revised Mississippi River forecast offered a bit of a reprieve for shippers Wednesday, showing the water level isn't dropping as quickly as feared. 

  • Scott Alford

    APNewsBreak: Feds funnel millions into Gulf Coast

    Days before a newly formed council focuses on long-term Gulf of Mexico cleanup, a report released to The Associated Press shows that one federal ... 

  • Survey: Sandy slows hiring in November to 118K

    A private survey shows that U.S. businesses added fewer workers in November, mostly because Superstorm Sandy shut down factories, retail stores, and ... 

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