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The US Army said it will begin proceedings to discharge reservists who have failed to report to duty after being mobilized for Iraq and Afghanistan.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, facing tough questions about abortion, civil rights and the Bush administration’s domestic spying program, testified on Monday that if confirmed he would administer justice equally to all Americans.

Climate modelers at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) have succeeded in reproducing the climate changes caused by a massive freshwater pulse into the North Atlantic that occurred at the beginning of the current warm period 8,000 years ago. Their work is the first to consistently model the event and the first time that the model results have been validated by comparison to the record of climate proxies that scientists regularly use to study the Earth’s past.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 11,000 Monday for the first time since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, lifted by a five-day rally that has sent stocks soaring so far in 2006.

The state’s highest criminal court on Monday denied Rep. Tom DeLay’s request that the money laundering charges against him be dismissed or sent back to a lower court for an immediate trial.

Andrea Yates pleaded innocent by reason of insanity in the drowning deaths of her children Monday as she made her first court appearance since her 2002 capital murder convictions were overturned.

Insurgents exploded a suicide car bomb and launched two mortar shells at Iraq’s Interior Ministry during National Police Day celebrations Monday, killing 21 people and injuring 24, police said.

South Korea’s financial watchdog said Monday it has been investigating Citibank Korea Inc. over derivatives trading losses worth more than 10 billion won ($10.2 million).

“After our regular inspection in October revealed derivatives-related losses that looked necessary for further investigation,

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Texas Instruments said it has agreed to sell its sensors-and-controls business to Bain Capital LLC, a private buyout fund, for three billion dollars in cash.

SyChip, a Texas based manufacturer of wireless mobile components, is making it easier for other manufacturers to include VoIP capabilities in their Windows Mobile-based mobile phones. They have announced the release of the VWLAN7100 wVoIP module at …