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By Michael Russo, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) – DENVER — There were plenty of motivating factors Tuesday for the Wild: to enter the All-Star break inside the top eight in the West, to leap
By Scott J. Wilson, Los Angeles Times – Asking for a raise in a weak economy may seem like a long shot. Or maybe even job suicide. But experts say that if you’re
By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times – WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund predicted Europe would fall into a mild recession this year, helping drag down global economic growth to a sluggish 3.3
By Jerry Hirsch, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — The top car brands seem to be losing their importance in the eyes of consumers as competition across the industry heats up. For
By Henry Chu. Los Angeles Times LONDON — Time stands still for no one. In London, it doesn’t even stand straight. Big Ben, perhaps the most iconic structure in all of Britain, is
By Laura C. Morel, McClatchy Newspapers – MANATEE, Fla. — More than 3,000 people gathered Tuesday in a Dolphin Aviation hangar to welcome Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Gingrich rolled into the hangar
By Ron Sylvester, McClatchy Newspapers – WICHITA, Kan. — U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown has died at age 104. Brown died Monday evening at the Larksfield Place retirement community, where he had
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times – MEXICO CITY — They stand at the curb, waving a red rag like an urban matador. “Hay lugar, hay lugar!” they call to passing motorists. (“There’s
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times – JOHANNESBURG — Seventeen years ago, a humiliated U.N. peacekeeping mission left the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after a failed intervention to stem the country’s spiral into chaos
By Alexandra Zavis and Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times – DAMASCUS, Syria — An Arab League peace plan for Syria appeared to be near collapse Tuesday as six Persian Gulf nations announced
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times – GYEONGJU, South Korea — On his first day of freedom, North Korean defector Kim Yong-chul sat crossed-legged on the floor of a small apartment without
By Frances Robles, McClatchy Newspapers – TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Sitting in the plant-filled patio of his home outside the capital, anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Alfredo Landaverde uttered what few people have the courage to
By Michael Logan and Mohamed Odowa – MOGADISHU, Somalia — Two hostages, an American and a Dane, have been freed from captivity in Somalia by the U.S. Navy, the Danish Refugee Council
By Jeremy C. Owens, San Jose Mercury News – SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facebook users who have not changed their profiles to the company’s new Timeline feature won’t have a choice much longer.
By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times – LOS ANGELES — Actress Demi Moore was receiving medical treatment Tuesday after paramedics rushed to her home near Benedict Canyon in the