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Local jobs: Top five cities leading the turnaround
Last year, these five metropolitan areas were struggling economically with unemployment above the national average. By February 2011, however, they were among the fastest recovering cities in the United States, most of them with unemployment rates below the national average of 9.5 percent. Here’s a look at these Top 5 fast-recovery cities:
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 03/18
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In Pictures: US military muscle
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In Pictures: Pianos out of place
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In Pictures: Carnival's stranded cruise ship
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Stranded Alaska oil rig: Example of safe practices or Arctic risks? (+video)
A floating oil rig, carrying about 143,000 gallons of diesel fuel, doesn't appear to be leaking. But the oil rig, stranded off the coast of Alaska, has raised safety concerns: 'Oil companies keep saying they can conquer the Arctic, but the Arctic keeps disagreeing with the oil companies,' Congressman Ed Markey, said.
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Drought's winter toll: Mississippi barges face losses while US blasts river (+video)
Traffic along 180 miles of the drought-stricken Mississippi will be curtailed for a month, at a cost of billions to the barging industry, to allow the US to blast rock formations and raise river levels.
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How 'fiscal cliff' is already hitting defense industry
Although lawmakers have been moderating dire predictions, some small businesses are talking about layoffs if no deal on the fiscal cliff is reached. And some have already lost contracts.
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Terrorism & Security
Japan scrambles F-15s after China flies over disputed islandsThe Chinese plane had already left the islands – known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan – by the time the Japanese F-15s arrived.
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Pearl Harbor resurrection: the warships that rose to fight again (+video)The attack on Pearl Harbor 71 years ago left a tangled mess of burning and shattered warships. But in 'one of history's greatest salvage jobs,' many of the sunken ships rose to fight the Axis.
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Colombia's narco-sub 'museum' gives a peek into drug trafficking tactics
For years, smugglers have been using semi-submersibles to traffic drugs. As the US wages the war on drugs, Colombia’s Pacific coast is the Silicon Valley of narco-innovation.
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Only in America
My son Alyosha's trajectory took him from Russian orphan to US Guardian.
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California beach tragedy blamed on 'sneaker waves' (+video)
News of Saturday's tragedy shocked many in the small college town of Arcata on the rough Northern California coastline about 280 miles north of San Francisco.
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Coast Guard searches for missing workers after oil platform fire
Two oil workers remain lost at sea a day after a torch being used to cut an oil pipe ignited a blaze on a production platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials said no oil was leaking from the charred platform,
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Deadly oil rig explosion puts spotlight back on embattled Gulf drillers (+video)
An oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico Friday, reportedly killing at least two. The accident hits an industry trying to improve on safety in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Gulf oil rig explosion leaves four injured, two missing
Coast Guard Capt. Ed Cubanski told a news conference in New Orleans the well was not producing at the time and no oil was leaking.
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Why hours-long lines for gasoline aren't easing in Sandy-hit areas
The port of New York is again open, allowing tankers to bring fuel to New York. But with damage and power outages across broad swaths of New York and New Jersey, it's not that simple.
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Coast Guard concludes HMS Bounty captain went down with ship
Calling off efforts to find Capt. Robin Walbridge, US Coast Guard proceeds with its investigation into why the replica of the HMS Bounty sank Monday off the North Carolina coast in high seas of hurricane Sandy.
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Coast Guard scrutiny on the Bounty's sinking begins, investigation expected to last months
The review will focus on what caused the sinking of the HMS Bounty off Cape Hatteras, Rear Adm. Steven Ratti said Friday.
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Many questions, few answers about loss of HMS Bounty to hurricane Sandy
The search continues for missing captain of the HMS Bounty, which sank Monday off Cape Hatteras, N.C., during hurricane Sandy. Rescued crew members aren't talking, leaving key questions about the tragedy unanswered.
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HMS Bounty: Search for missing captain continues (+video)
HMS Bounty Capt. Robin Walbridge was wearing a survival suit and the waters off North Carolina are warm. The US Coast Guard continues to search for Walbridge, three days after the sinking of the Bounty.
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Hurricane Sandy response: Officials get good marks, so far
Amid the damage caused by hurricane Sandy, local, state, and federal officials are at this early stage largely united in the opinion that everyone did everything they could.
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HMS Bounty casualty claimed tie to mutinous Fletcher Christian
Claudene Christian perished in the tragic sinking Monday of a replica HMS Bounty, after the ship went down in hurricane Sandy-swept seas. She had claimed a a family tie to Fletcher Christian, chief mutineer on the original ship.
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HMS Bounty: the inside story of its final days (+video)
The HMS Bounty left New London, Conn., on Oct. 25 for a sail to St. Petersburg, Fla. It went due east to try to avoid hurricane Sandy, but the crew was mistaken in thinking the danger had been skirted.
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'Superstorm' Sandy: Assessing the damage the morning after (+video)
Sandy, no longer a hurricane, but still huge, killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants, and stopped the presidential campaign cold.
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Hurricane Sandy: The situation in 17 states from the Carolinas to Maine
The eye of Hurricane Sandy is still about 300 miles from land, but it's long reach is already being felt in 17 states. Some are being hit, others are getting ready for the storm's arrival.
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The story behind the HMS Bounty, sunk by Sandy off N.C. coast (+video)
Early Monday morning, two US Coast Guard helicopters rescued 14 crew members of the HMS Bounty, ensnared by hurricane Sandy. But the Coast Guard is still searching for two missing crew.
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Hawaii tsunami: Smaller waves than predicted after Canada quake
Hawaii tsunami: Initial tsunami waves are small. But Hawaii residents got a good test of tsunami preparedness in the wake of Saturday's magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Canada.
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Hurricane Sandy's punch may be felt from Norfolk, Va., to Boston
Tropical-force winds, with hurricane-force gusts, could stretch from coastal Virginia to Boston by early Tuesday, latest forecasts show. Hurricane Sandy is still expected to combine with a nor'easter, into a 'Frankenstorm.'
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Mystery in Gulf of Mexico: Why is oil leaking from Deepwater disaster site?
Oil identified as coming from the Macondo well, site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 100 gallons per day. The Coast Guard is investigating.
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