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Beijing (Reuters) - The United States remains willing to remove North Korea from a list of terror-sponsoring states as soon as the North agrees rules to check its nuclear disclosures, Washington's envoy in disarmament talks said on Saturday.

Tropical Storm Hanna charges for the Carolinas - and Hurricane Ike isn't far behind

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck east of Oakland, California, at around 9 p.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

WASHINGTON - Tropical Storm Hanna sloshed ashore along the U.S. Atlantic Coast between the borders of South and North Carolina early on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said.

Aircraft assembly workers strike Boeing Co. after contract negotiations nosedive

The eye of Tropical Storm Hanna made landfall at around 3:20 a.m. ET Saturday near Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border, according to CNN meteorologists. Forecasters said Hanna should weaken before quickly traveling up the mid-Atlantic coast and into New England, dumping heavy rain along the way.

NEW YORK/EVERETT, Washington (Reuters) - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union walked off the job on Saturday after the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer after two days of emergency talks.

Nominee's ally moves to curb probe of Palin

Government may soon take over troubled mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

The widower of late Pakistani Prime minister Benazir Bhutto has won the election to be the country's next president, Pakistani media reported Saturday.