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Best Buy recalls batteries over fire risk
Best Buy is recalling 5,100 replacement batteries for the MacBook Pro due to a fire risk. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday that there have been 13 reports that the battery caught fire. One consumer suffered a serious burn on the
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Still a little hazy about the health care overhaul? You have plenty of company. About half the people surveyed earlier this spring by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation felt they didn't have enough information to understand how the law will affect
GOP targets high-speed rail, transportation grants
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are pushing to eliminate money for high-speed rail and a popular grant program for transportation projects. The belt-tightening comes as the GOP-led House works on $44 billion measure covering transportation and housing pr
Fed foresees lower US unemployment rate
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve expects the U.S. unemployment rate to fall faster this year and next than it did in March. The Fed now predicts unemployment will fall to 7.2 percent or 7.3 percent at the end of 2013 from 7.6 percent now. It thinks the
Text of the Federal Reserve's statement Wednesday
WASHINGTON -- Here is the statement the Federal Reserve released Wednesday after its two-day policy meeting: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in May suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a moderate pace. La
Half of Canada's aboriginal children are poor
TORONTO -- Half of Canada's aboriginal children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics. The study by the left-leaning Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released Wednesday says indigenous
Mueller urges caution on NSA program changes
WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday urged Congress to move carefully before making any changes that might restrict the National Security Agency programs for mass collection of people's phone records and information from the Internet. I
Tropical depression heads toward Mexican coast
MIAMI -- Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atla
Top Charles Taylor ally found in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- A notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone's capital city, according to United Nations experts. A Sierra Leone police official said Wednesday th
Trouble on the ‘Anger Management' set
Shocker of shockers: Charlie Sheen is making waves on Anger Management, reportedly forcing out Selma Blair. In a statement, producer Lionsgate confirmed Blair's therapist character won't be back. Rumor is the two actors clashed, and Sheen threatened to b
Tropical depression heads toward Mexican coast
MIAMI -- Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the Atla
Wawrinka, Chardy reach Den Bosch QFs
Stan Wawrinka and Jeremy Chardy, the only two seeds left standing in Den Bosch, were a pair of second- round winners Wednesday at the $545,000 Topshelf Open, a final grass- court Wimbledon tune-up. The second-seeded Swiss Wawrinka held off game Italian P
Rose running on adrenaline after US Open victory
CROMWELL, Conn. -- Justin Rose says he may need adrenaline to carry him through the Travelers Championship after winning the U.S. Open last week. Rose says he had always planned to play a three-week stretch starting at Merion, and loves playing the TPC R
Woods to rest elbow, skip AT&T National
Tiger Woods' sore left elbow will keep him out of competition until the British Open. Woods says on his website that he had his left elbow checked out when he returned home from the U.S. Open at Merion. He says doctors found a strain to his left elbow an
HPV vaccine cut infection by half in teen girls
ATLANTA -- Researchers say a vaccine for a sexually spread virus has cut infections in teen girls by half. This is the first evidence of how well the HPV vaccine works since it came on the market seven years ago. For girls ages 14 to 19, the study found
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