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WASHINGTON – Sales of existing homes slowed slightly in May but still came in at the second-highest level on record with home prices hitting an all-time high. Sales of previously owned homes and condominiums edged down 0.7 percent last month, the National Association of Realtors (search) reported Thursday. The small …

Watch “The Big Story Weekend” Saturday and Sunday at 9 p.m ET Saturday, June 18 We’ll have the latest from Aruba as authorities continue their search for missing honor student Natalee Holloway (search). Does the arrest of a fourth suspect mean investigators are close to cracking this case? We’ll ask …

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco 49ers (search) officials promised Chinese-American leaders Tuesday they would overhaul the team’s diversity policies to address anger over offensive training videos, including one that featured racial slurs about the Chinese community. At a packed meeting in a Chinatown (search) community hall, 49ers owner John York …

SIEM REAP, Cambodia – Masked gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school Thursday in northwestern Cambodia (search), killing a 3-year-old Canadian boy with a shot to the head before police rescued the hostages, authorities said. The four attackers stormed Siem Reap International School (search), grabbed students from several …

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WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A woman has been charged with killing a widely known Vietnamese-American fortuneteller and her daughter, slayings that initially mystified investigators because the victims’ hands and faces were covered with white paint. Tanya Jaime Nelson (search) allegedly assumed the identities of the victims after the April 21 killings, …

WASHINGTON – After months of declining enlistment, the Army has more than met its recruitment goals for the month of June. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers (search) announced the turnaround during a “town hall” meeting this afternoon at the Pentagon. Myers did not provide numbers, nor did he …

WASHINGTON – The House voted Thursday against permitting Cuban-Americans to visit their families in Cuba (search) more frequently and for retaining a trade embargo that has been in place since 1960. The 211-208 vote reversed a trend in Congress in recent years toward relaxing some travel sanctions on Cuba. A …

In the United States, prostate cancer (search) has the dubious distinction of being both the most common cancer diagnosed and, if caught early, the least deadly. About 200,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. While the cancer grows so slowly that most men do not need treatment, 30,000 …

WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) says he is determined to complete the mission of establishing democracy in Iraq (search) because the world will be a better place for it, and so those who have fallen in combat will not have died in vain. At a joint news conference Monday with …