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Where employers expect to be hiring in the next quarter.

Going to the beach has become a lot like looking for hotel accommodations: If it has a one-star ranking, you know you're in for nothing but trouble. A new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council ranked the water quality of 200 U.S. coastal beaches using a five-star guide, and the results are far from a day at the beach.

U.S. and Chinese officials began grappling on Monday with how and when to withdraw the huge economic stimulus spending each has applied and to put in place measures to promote steadier long-term growth.

China is bringing 150 senior officials, including nearly its whole Cabinet, to the United States this week for talks whose symbolic value is likely to trump concrete achievements.

The number of centenarians already has jumped from an estimated few thousand in 1950 to more than 340,000 worldwide today, with the highest concentrations in the U.S. and Japan, according to the latest Census Bureau figures.

The United States led, 2-0, at halftime, before the 5-time World Cup winner stormed back and won the Confederations Cup final.

Brazil's formidable attack of Kaka, Robinho and Luis Fabiano will start in the Confederations Cup final against the United States on Sunday.

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Montana has big trout, big mountains, big skies and some very memorable bars. Don’t forget your bear-spray.

Here are ten of the finest, most colorful Montana watering holes I have had the pleasure of scarring my liver in.

International donors, led by the United States and Japan, pledged more than $5 billion Friday to stabilize Pakistan's troubled ...

Feeling stressed and depressed? Where you live could be a factor.