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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Landslides triggered by heavy rains swept down on a village on Indonesia’s Java island at dawn Wednesday, burying homes beneath tons of mud and leaving dozens of people missing and feared dead, officials said. Most residents of Cijeruk, a village of about 200 people, were at home …

WASHINGTON – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called on President Bush Tuesday to “come clean” in next week’s State of the Union speech and acknowledge “the costs of Republican corruption.” “In his 2000 campaign, George Bush promised to bring ‘dignity’ to the White House but we’ve since found that he …

WASHINGTON – The number of U.S. workers making new claims for unemployment benefits rose by a slightly smaller-than-expected 17,000 last week, government data showed Thursday. The Labor Department said 309,000 initial claims for state jobless aid were filed in the week ended Jan. 7 versus a revised 292,000 the prior …