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WASHINGTON – A global credit crisis and record oil prices will be competing with traditional trade and currency issues when top officials from the United States and China gather in Annapolis, Md., later this month. However, there is little expectation the fourth round of these high-level discussions will produce any …

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are planning a vote on Tuesday that will momentarily refocus the body on a subject that’s a bit dicey these days for them — Iraq. Despite military and some political successes in that country lately, the vote will no doubt be warmly welcomed for opposite reasons …

HAVANA, Cuba – Nearly a half century of rule by Fidel Castro was ending Sunday as Cuban lawmakers chose his replacement — widely expected to be his younger brother Raul. • Click here to watch video. The transition was not likely to bring a major shift in policies of the …