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Yahoo Inc. has rebuffed an unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer from Microsoft Corp., an offer Yahoo said "substantially undervalues" the company. Microsoft is now expected to sweeten its bid, which valued Yahoo stock at $31 a share.

Bush's Third Term?

The California State Senate is heating up the already boiling debate over whether troops should be withdrawn from Iraq. The Democratic Senate leader Don Perata stoked the fires with his push for a sta

Archaeologists are abuzz over human excrement found in an Oregon cave that dates back to a time before the earliest known Americans. The fossilized feces are 14,000 years old and lend support to the theory that people first came to the Americas by a Bering Sea land bridge.

Biofuels like corn ethanol have been hailed as climate-friendly fuels. But new research says that the global effects of losing agricultural land for corn ethanol production will result in twice the carbon emissions of gasoline. The finding could force major changes in the biofuels industry.

More than 400 new teachers will take their place in San Diego classrooms this academic year. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has this report.

Critics say a landslide parliamentary victory for the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin shows the Kremlin manipulated the elections to a shocking degree. Some fear Putin is reviving Soviet-style authoritarian control.

A new study finds that the number of Americans fishing, camping or engaging in other nature-based activities has substantially fallen since the late 1980s. Researchers say this fact has important implications for environmental protection.

New laws passed by Iraq's interim government give Prime Minister Iyad Allawi broad powers to declare emergency rule and set curfews. The next step could be declaration of martial law in a bid to clamp down on insurgents. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand and Christian Science Monitor reporter Annia Ciezadlo.

Should you wait until your child is 6 years old before enrolling them in kindergarten? What kind of impact can holding your child back a year have on their long-term development? Professor Gedeon De