A boy holding a sign bearing the name of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - or Lu Tian Na, her Chinese name, during the Lunar New Year parade in New York.
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A boy holding a sign bearing the name of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand - or Lu Tian Na, her Chinese name, during the Lunar New Year parade in New York.
By DAVID W. CHEN
Kirsten Gillibrand, who studied in China and Taiwan, has piqued interest among her Chinese-American constituents.
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Firefighters at the crash site of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence, near Buffalo, New York on Friday.
Federal investigators on Friday retrieved both black boxes from a Continental Airlines plane that crashed the previous night near Buffalo, New York,
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
The $787 billion package got 60 votes in the Senate, readying it for the president's signature. Party lines were unmoved.
By JEFF ZELENY
Senator Judd Gregg withdrew from consideration to be Commerce Secretary during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
The withdrawal of President Barack Obama's nominee for commerce secretary is the latest setback to a White House that has struggled to fill several top positions and fulfill the president's pledge to build a bipartisan administration.
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The Pennsylvania men were accused of making deals with two juvenile detention centers.
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Dennis Blair said that the global economic turmoil and the instability it could ignite had outpaced terrorism as the most urgent threat facing the United States.
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The recession is the one excuse that is simple to grasp, powerful, and nearly universal in its reach.
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A federal appeals court Friday overturned a ruling requiring more extensive environmental reviews of mountaintop removal, a form of coal mining in Appalachia that blasts away whole peaks.
By MARC LACEY
Couples dancing during an event mainly for senior citizens in Plaza Morelos in Mexico City.
With midterm elections looming in July, Mexico City's Mayor has set up a program to give Viagra away for free to poor men age 60 and above.
By JOHN LELAND
Joseph Hayduk, 86, who suffers from congestive heart failure, transmits his clinical vital signs everyday via a "HomMed Health Monitoring System" to an office where a registered nurse tracks his health.
New technologies help seniors live independently and avoid trips to hospitals or nursing homes.
By SIMON ROMERO
A break-in at a Caracas synagogue on Jan. 31 heightened the concerns of the country's Jews.
The Jewish community is apprehensive amid attacks on Jewish institutions following President Hugo Chávez's expulsion of the Israeli ambassador.
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