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Today, I pulled out my worn and dog-eared pocket-sized copy of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution that I carry with me when I'm overseas.

Folks who know me well still question how a woman from Chicago can find contentment in the small towns of Texas.

Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.

Robert Neal will take to the road this Independence Day holiday the same as millions of other Americans.

From the president's "body man" to the official candy of the commander in chief - " an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the Obama administration and the people who keep it running like clockwork.

The clogged tourist travel route between Southern California and Las Vegas has been designated a federal high-speed rail corridor, in a move that officials hope would signal increased cooperation between the regions on building speedier train travel.

The wife of embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford called his affair with an Argentine woman "inexcusable" but said Thursday she is willing to forgive him.

Authorities have located family friends of a 2-year-old girl a day after she was found wandering around an Orlando mall alone.

Back in April 2004 , Sage Van Wing, then a grass-fed-beef rancher and chicken farmer in northern California, read Gary Paul Nabhan's Coming Home to Eat , a chronicle of his experiment to eat only food produced within a 200-mile radius of his Arizona home.

As Americans get ready to celebrate July Fourth, many merchants already have dismissed summer as a washout.

After its doors opened for Father's Day, about 200 more families flocked into the Autry National Center than during last year's patriarchal tribute.

Be practical, but also tap creative juices. The economy, and especially real estate in particular, will pick up only to dip down once again.

Two Victorian Government ministers went through almost $100,000 in four weeks on separate overseas junkets.

U.S. consumer confidence took an unexpectedly steep slide in June, figures released on Tuesday showed, suggesting the 18-month-long recession had yet to loosen its grip on the economy.

In this Oct. 31, 2002, file photo an Amtrak locomotive rolls into a station in Normal, Ill., at the start of a high speed rail test run that hit speeds of nearly 110 mph.

Limp Bizkit's first reunion show has been scrapped over a dispute about the appropriate venue for the show.

The recent death of Robert Derzon, a Mill Valley resident and retired U.S. health official, was due to swine flu, his son said Monday.

Countries that received the most airline passengers from Mexico this spring were the most likely to see H1N1 swine flu infection, new research says.

McClatchy & Co., one of the companies hardest hit by the crisis in the newspaper industry, was honored Monday for its coverage of the economic meltdown.

In the last two months, I have been in eight US cities X Boston, New York, Washington, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.