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KABUL, Afghanistan – One Soldier and one Marine were killed in separate militant attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan (search), just over a week after the country held landmark elections, the U.S. military said Tuesday. One U.S. soldier died during a “ground assault operation” by Afghan and U.S. forces west …

SEATTLE – Workers and management at Boeing Co.’s (BA) commercial airplane division hammered out a tentative agreement that could allow the airline giant to resume production quickly. Thousands of machinists will vote Thursday on whether to approve the new three-year deal, providing a potential end to a three-week strike. Approval …

LONDON – Britain on Thursday ordered the deportations of seven men detained as threats to national security, including some accused in a terrorist plot to spread the poison ricin. The men were being held in London and Manchester (search) under the government’s powers to deport people “whose presence in the …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. military is tube-feeding more than a dozen of the 89 terror suspects on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay (search) prison in Cuba, a spokesman said Friday. Some of the 89 striking detainees at Guantanamo have not eaten for a month, said Guantanamo …

COLUMBIA, Tenn. – A malfunctioning light bulb in a school gym exposed more than 100 people to short-wave radiation for an hour, sending 18 to the hospital with severe sunburns and swollen eyes. The incident occurred during a Sept. 11 memorial event held Friday at the Baker Elementary School in …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration kept its Hurricane Katrina (search) response and its public relations campaign in overdrive on Sunday, even as first confirmation came from Washington of a dreaded statistic — that the storm probably killed thousands of people. Responding to accusations of racial insensitivity, Secretary of State Condoleezza …

LONDON – Impoverished Bangladesh (search), where millions live on a monsoon- and flood-prone delta, pledged $1 million and offered rescuers. Thailand, recalling U.S. aid after last year’s tsunami (search), offered to send 60 doctors and nurses as well as rice as a “gesture from the heart.” They are among more …

BESLAN, Russia – Thousands of mourners with red carnations and roses filed into the gutted gymnasium of Beslan’s School No. 1 (search) and fanned out across the town’s crowded cemetery Thursday, commemorating the first anniversary of the hostage tragedy that claimed 331 lives. Policemen lined the streets of the small …

What can you say now — as opposed to earlier in the week — about the nation’s worst natural disaster? A lot! Why? Because so much changes from day to day about the damage that Hurricane Katrina (search) inflicted on four states. What has caught me most by surprise is …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Hormel Foods Corp., Petco Animal Supplies and Patterson Companies Inc. Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) is expected to report fiscal fourth-quarter earnings of 57 cents a share, according to analysts polled by Thomson …