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In the morgue at a small Gaza hospital, the anguished cries of those who lost loved ones in Israeli airstrikes fell silent Thursday when Ahmed Jadallah began attending to the corpses, one by one, on his wooden work table.

A divided federal appeals court has thrown out claims against produce giant Chiquita Brands International made by thousands of Colombians killed during years of bloody civil war.

Morgan Stanley has agreed to pay $275 million to settle U. S. civil charges that it misled investors about risky mortgage bonds it sold ahead of the 2008 financial crisis.

Republicans have cleared legislation for a vote in the House that authorizes the filing of an election-year lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama of failing to implement the 4-year-old health care law.

Linda Close was grateful to learn she qualified for a sizable subsidy to help pay for her health insurance under the new federal law. But in the process of signing up for a plan, Close said her HealthCare.gov account showed several different subsidy amounts, varying as much as $180.

Actor Alec Baldwin is not apologizing over an incident that led to a disorderly conduct arrest in May.

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has announced his resignation following turmoil in government.

A U. S. science advisory report says a key lesson from Japan's Fukushima nuclear accident is that the nation's nuclear industry needs to focus more on the highly unlikely but super-serious worst case scenarios.

Average U. S. long-term mortgage rates were stable to slightly higher this week, remaining near their lows for the year.

The State Department's global database for issuing travel documents has crashed, resulting in major delays for potentially millions of people around the world waiting for U. S. passports and visas, officials said Wednesday.

A federal judge in Denver has declared Colorado's gay marriage ban unconstitutional, but he issued a temporary stay of the ruling until an appeals court hearing next month.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is questioning whether President Barack Obama used a federal agency to impose an economic boycott on Israel after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U. S. airline flights to Tel Aviv because of safety concerns amid fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted its ban Wednesday on U. S. flights in and out of Israel, which the agency had imposed out of concern for the risk of planes being…