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BEIJING – Chinese authorities detained an electrician blamed for a hospital fire in the northeast that killed 39 people, a local Communist Party leader said Saturday as he apologized for the disaster. Thursday’s blaze in Liaoyuan forced patients to leap from second- and third-story windows in subfreezing weather. The city …

TUCSON, Ariz. – The Minuteman Project was launched earlier this year amid fears that racist crackpots would rough up illegal immigrants trying to slip into this country. But there was no bloodshed when the hundreds of volunteers converged in the Arizona desert in April to watch for border crossers and …

NEW YORK – Sony BMG Music Entertainment has reached a tentative settlement with consumers who filed a class action lawsuit over the music company’s copy-protection software on CDs, court papers show. The lawsuit against Sony BMG, a joint venture of Japan’s Sony Corp (SNE) and Germany’s Bertelsmann AG (BERT.UL), stems …