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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL – A helicopter carrying Brazil’s Senate President Renan Calheiros crashed just before landing Saturday morning, but none of the four people aboard were injured, his spokesman said. A candidate for governor in the northeastern state of Alagoas, Teotonio Vilela, also was in the helicopter when it crashed …

CHICAGO – Protesters marched, carried signs and called for a boycott Saturday because their beloved Marshall Field’s store, the shopper’s magnet on State Street for more than a century, had been replaced by a New York icon — Macy’s. “Hell No. Not My Dough” and “Macy’s Is Just Wal-Mart with …

LA PAZ, Mexico – The remnants of Hurricane John made a soggy march up the Baja California peninsula Sunday, soaking fishing villages and retirement communities and threatening flooding in parts of the U.S. Southwest. The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression late Sunday but was still dumping rain on …