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WASHINGTON (AP) - Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive. Outside scientists said this so far vindicates the difficult and much-debated ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday refused to lift his order blocking federal funding for some stem cell research, saying that a "parade of horribles" predicted by federal officials would not happen. Medical researchers value stem cells because they are master cells that can turn into any ...

PASADENA, CALIF. (AP) - NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope. The asteroids were discovered Sunday by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Tuesday that arbitration will begin in late September in its dispute with Johnson & Johnson over revenue from two blockbuster drugs for rheumatoid arthritis and other immune disorders.

Last week's announcement of more new iPod models — Nano, Shuffle and Touch — means there will not only be new varieties of the top music-player line to deal with, but also a lot of bling to attach to said items. While we're at it, let's not forget the ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Merck & Co.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal scientists are reporting the best possible scenario for BP's leaked oil: Microbes are munching the underwater oil, but not robbing the Gulf of Mexico of much needed oxygen or creating so-called "dead zones." Oxygen levels in some places where the BP oil spilled are down ...

ATLANTA (AP) - U.S.

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq displayed hundreds of recovered artifacts Tuesday that were among the country's looted heritage and span the ages from a 4,400-year-old statue of a Sumerian king to a chrome-plated AK-47 bearing Saddam Hussein's image. The 542 pieces are among the most recent artifacts recovered from a ...

Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe _ a dead woman lay on his chest.