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DETROIT – Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick overcame doubts about his leadership and judgment as voters gave him the second chance he asked for in a come-from-behind victory in Tuesday’s election. Kilpatrick’s win came after the charismatic 35-year-old mayor placed second behind challenger Freman Hendrix in the August primary and trailed in …

MEXICO CITY – As many as 200 million Monarch butterflies may migrate to Mexico this year — a nearly tenfold increase over 2004, when unfavorable weather, pollution and deforestation caused a drastic decline in the population, environmental officials said Tuesday. Last year, fewer than 23 million butterflies survived long enough …

NEW YORK – One in six U.S. Internet users have sold goods and services online and 2 percent do so on a given day, a new study found. Sales are typically done through such online classifed ads sites as Craigslist or through an auction like eBay, the Pew Internet and …