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NEW YORK – Manufacturing activity expanded for the 19th consecutive month in December, a research group reported Monday, suggesting that the industrial sector entered the new year with solid strength behind it. The Institute for Supply Management (search) said that its main index measuring industrial activity rose to 58.6 in …

A Brooklyn, N.Y., high school had to weed its courtyard garden after a marijuana plant was found growing among the black-eyed Susans and cornflowers. The New York Daily News reported that Winston McCarthy, assistant principal of Paul Robeson High School (search) in the slowly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, ripped the illicit …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan on Tuesday condemned the killing of up to 17 civilians in a U.S. airstrike, and a senior U.S. defense official confirmed the deaths of two Navy SEALS (search) who were missing in action in the country’s northeast. The airstrike came Friday in Kunar province (search), which …