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Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89

2012-05-29T22:47:00-04:00

Doc Watson, the blind Grammy-award winning folk musician whose mountain-rooted sound was embraced by generations and whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world, died Tuesday, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89.

Trump overshadows Romney with 'birther' talk

2012-05-29T22:43:00-04:00

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign collided with Donald Trump's "birther" rhetoric on Tuesday as the reality television star hosted a fundraiser for the Republican while claiming again that President Barack Obama is foreign-born.

Four companies to pay $5M in FEMA trailer settlement

2012-05-29T20:22:12-04:00

Four FEMA contractors that installed or maintained government-issued trailers for storm victims after Hurricane Katrina have agreed to pay a total of $5 million to resolve claims that the temporary shelters exposed Gulf Coast residents to hazardous fumes, according to court filings Tuesday.

A rare gain for the Dow on hopes for China growth

2012-05-29T17:10:38-04:00

The stock market is desperately looking for good news.

On Tuesday, oil prices fell, the euro sank to a 22-month low, and the yield on the U.S. government's 10-year Treasury note fell near a historic low after a report suggested that Spain will have more trouble repaying its debts.

Romney to clinch GOP nomination with Texas win

2012-05-29T14:41:30-04:00

Mitt Romney is set to clinch the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and watched this year as voters flirted for months with a carousel of GOP rivals.

New cyberweapon discovered; Iranian computers hit

2012-05-29T13:34:25-04:00

UN: Most of 108 killed in Syria were executed

2012-05-29T12:13:58-04:00

The U.N.'s human rights office said Tuesday that most of the 108 victims of a massacre in Syria last week were shot at close range, some of them women, children and entire families gunned down in their own homes.

Stocks open higher on hopes for China stimulus

2012-05-29T10:30:48-04:00

Stocks are opening higher on Wall street on optimism that China will take action to reverse a slowdown in its economic growth.

John Edwards jury resumes deliberation for 7th day

2012-05-29T10:28:38-04:00

The jury in the John Edwards campaign finance corruption trial is deliberating for a seventh day after a long weekend in which they were warned by the judge not to discuss the case.

10 reported dead in Italy 5.8-magnitude quake

2012-05-29T08:22:33-04:00

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people in the same region still struggling to recover from another fatal tremor on May 20.