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WASHINGTON – The United States is not ruling out using force to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons even as the U.N. Security Council is preparing to take up the Iranian nuclear problem this week, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told FOX News Talk’s Tony Snow on …

WASHINGTON – The high levels of fluoride that occur naturally in some drinking water can cause tooth and bone damage and should be reduced, the National Research Council said Wednesday. The study did not analyze the benefits or risks of adding fluoride to drinking water. Instead it looked at the …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Archeologists have found a shipwreck from the late 1300s buried in the mud of a bay in central Stockholm, officials said Thursday. They are now awaiting permission to excavate the wreckage — one of the oldest ever found in the Swedish capital — hoping it will shed …

NEW YORK – Bullish data on inflation and the housing market sent stocks mostly higher Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrials and Standard & Poor’s 500 index posting nearly five-year highs for the third straight session. A jump in oil prices moderated the gains, however, and the Nasdaq composite index …

This week, Gail demonstrates how smart planning now can make a difference down the line when it comes to your retirement. Dear Friends- I can’t count the number of times people have said, “Gail, I know I should be saving for retirement, but I have no idea how much I’ll …

NEW YORK – Oleg Cassini, who designed the dresses that helped make Jacqueline Kennedy the most glamorous first lady in history, died Friday. He was 92. Cassini died on Long Island, said Senada Ivackovic, marketing director for Oleg Cassini Inc. The cause of death was not immediately known. Kennedy, only …

COLUMBIA, S.C. – A local magistrate denied bond Saturday for a convicted rapist charged with abducting two teenage girls and assaulting them in an underground room behind his home. Kenneth G. Hinson was captured Friday evening after a four-day manhunt in the woods around his Darlington County neighborhood, about 20 …

MANILA, Philippines – A bomb exploded Monday in a grocery store on a southern Philippine island considered an Al Qaeda stronghold, killing at least five people and wounding at least a dozen more, authorities said. One man was arrested, and police suspected the blast was the work of Abu Sayyaf, …

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan – A Russian Soyuz rocket streaked into the skies over the Central Asian steppe on Thursday, launching a U.S.-Russian-Brazilian crew on a mission to the international space station. Russian Pavel Vinogradov and American Jeffrey Williams were to stay on board the station for about six months. Brazil’s first …

Beware of dog … or wolf … or whatever. Ever since they found it dead along the power lines, residents of Turner, Maine, have been speculating if the animal was indeed the dog-eating, kid-scaring, straight-out-of-a-horror movie mystery beast that’s been terrorizing them for years. The curious came to photograph the …