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Obama's Iranian policy triggers ambiguity, mistrust

In his first campaign for president, Barack Obama promised to break with American policy for three decades and talk directly, "without precondition" to leaders of Iran, which George W. Bush had shunned as part of an international "axis of evil." More »

Mild winter blamed for slow tourism season in Caribbean

The warm winter around the country is giving at least one Caribbean economy a bit of a cold. With temperatures rising higher than normal and less snow falling, fewer Americans have been getting the impulse to get away from the cold and go somewhere warm - like the Caribbean, where many economies depend heavily on winter tourism. More »