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California is a step closer to picking a restoration plan for the state’s largest lake. The Imperial County’s Salton Sea is choking on salt and pollution. Public comment ended Tuesday on ten poten

Those four words loomed large in 2008, as a crisis in the banking world threatened the global economy. Fears that the failure of large financial institutions would undermine the entire economic system led Congress to step in, passing a $700 billion bailout package.

Tourists on a North Carolina vacation destination island were ordered to board the ferries and head for the mainland Wednesday and more evacuations could be on the way as powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the East Coast.

Wall Street Journal reporters Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell say that champion cyclist Lance Armstrong was at the center of "the greatest sports conspiracy ever." Their book chronicles everything from group blood transfusions on the team bus to extensive efforts to silence and intimidate those who might expose the abuse.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. now stretches from Australia to India, Great Britain and the United States. In a new book, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik looks at how News Corp. publications covered the company's hacking scandals, and its punitive attitude toward critics.

At 10:17 this morning, 9.5 million people across California are expected to drop cover and hold. It’s part of California’s annual earthquake drill: The Great California Shakeout.

The holidays are a time for family and socializing, gift giving and reflecting on the year past and hopes for a prosperous year ahead. And it is a time when many people indulge in sweets! But there

Libya's rebel forces edged closer to Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, the gateway to the western half of the country. Backed by U.N.-approved international airstrikes, the rebels have regained nearly all the territory they lost in the past week.

Libertarian-minded Tea Party activists have accused leading social conservatives of attempting to appropriate their smaller-government movement to promote the anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage agenda.

Making short-term loans to low-income people is big business. Critics say payday lenders take advantage of desperate people with extremely high rates. But operators say the stores help people get through short-term financial emergencies.