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Watch “The Big Story” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET The chaotic riots that have gripped the suburban slums north of Paris for more than a week spread to more suburbs and other towns across Europe, after it started as an outburst of anger among disaffected youths, mostly of Muslim or …

WASHINGTON – The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops are convening a meeting that has an unusually light agenda — in public, that is. Sessions are to be open to the news media and observers from Monday through midday Tuesday. But after that, the bishops will continue to discuss church business behind …

WASHINGTON – New orders at U.S. factories fell a more-than-expected 1.7 percent in September, as orders for both durable and non-durable goods dropped, a government report showed Thursday. Analysts polled by Reuters had been expecting a 1 percent decline. It was the second fall in three months in factory orders …

CHICAGO – The union representing pilots at Northwest Airlines (NWACQ) said it reached a tentative deal with the airline on a 24 percent pay cut that would stall the carrier’s effort to have a bankruptcy court void the pilots’ contract. The Air Line Pilots Association (search) (ALPA) said late on …

WASHINGTON – Ben Bernanke is one step away from becoming the next Federal Reserve Board chairman after the Senate Banking Committee approved his nomination Wednesday on a voice vote. The vote to recommend Bernanke is the second-to-last hurdle to confirmation, a step that is expected in the full Senate, although …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alisha Klingenmeyer of Anchorage recalled spotting an orange-red fireball streaking across the sky as she drove north at about 8 p.m. Thursday. Paul Vos was watching a movie with his wife and son at their home in Hope at about 8:30 p.m. the same night when all …

WASHINGTON – The federal agency that insures the private pensions of 44 million workers said Tuesday that its deficit was $22.8 billion in 2005, as big airlines in bankruptcy dumped their pension liabilities. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. disclosed in its annual financial report that as of Sept. 30, it …

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NEW YORK – “Bachelorette” (search) Jen Schefft (search) received two marriage proposals on the ABC Monday night finale, but didn’t accept either. Schefft wavered between Jerry and John Paul until the very end. Both suitors popped the question, but Schefft denied John Paul and asked Jerry to wait so that …

BISMARCK, N.D. – Raymon Holmberg didn’t know his new sedan came equipped with the long arm of the law. The dealer hadn’t bothered to mention the “black box,” (search) a computer chip that stores information on speed and seat belt use. “When I bought my car,” he said, “I didn’t …