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Though you might not be able to run away from your problems, moving to another state could be good for the soul. New research suggests U.S. states with wealthier, better educated and more tolerant residents are also happier on average.

Those photos you post on Facebook could paint an accurate picture of your personality, new research on first impressions suggests.

WASHINGTON - After a slow start, the Obama administration's mortgage relief program has reached one in five eligible homeowners, a government report says.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats are looking to former President Bill Clinton to jump-start their push to overhaul America's health care system, hoping a battle-scarred veteran of past health care fights can motivate their ranks to finish the politically tricky job this time.

WASHINGTON - Unemployment likely will remain high for the next several years because the economic recovery won't be strong enough to spur robust hiring, Federal Reserve officials warned Tuesday.

Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., expected all along that he would vote against the Democrats' health care bill. But Saturday morning he changed his mind.

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian student sparked fears of a new era of computer viruses on Tuesday after creating a worm which infects Apple's iconic iPhone with pictures of 1980s pop star Rick Astley.

When it comes to financial matters, Americans are functionally illiterate.

A real estate group says home prices fell in eight out of every 10 U.S. cities in the third quarter of this year as heavily discounted distressed sales made up 30 percent of all deals.

One day artificial penis tissue could be grown to help men, new findings in rabbits now suggest.

Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Home prices fell in the third quarter from year-ago levels in about 80 percent of U.S. metropolitan areas, the National Association of Realtors said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The European Commission has objected to Oracle Corp's acquisition of computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc , throwing the $7 billion deal into question.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed Monday.

Helpful acts, such as grooming or foster parenting, are common throughout the animal kingdom, but accounts of animals rescuing one another from danger are exceedingly rare, having been reported in the scientific literature only for dolphins, capuchin monkeys, and ants. New research shows that in the ant Cataglyphis cursor, the behavior is surprisingly sophisticated.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Forty-three "career coaches" will be placed in high schools around Arkansas next year to help students chart their college and career goals, state officials announced Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slipped on Tuesday as investors paused to assess the rally that pushed the Dow industrials to a 13-month high in the previous session and drove the S&P 500 up for six straight days.

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is ready to hand out more stimulus dollars for schools, but this time, strings are attached.

SYDNEY (AFP) - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said Tuesday it was interested in collaborating with Chinalco, months after rejecting a massive cash injection from the state-owned Chinese firm.

A new Russian room that doubles as a docking port for the International Space Station is ready for a planned Tuesday launch toward the orbiting laboratory.

HONOLULU - Though conceding it was a close call, a federal judge refused to halt Hawaii's teacher furloughs, and called on the state and lawyers for parents who filed two lawsuits to quickly reach an out-of-court settlement.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - After Richard Handy of Fairfield received an e-mail from a conservative group calling Gov. Ted Strickland's proposed delay of Ohio's income tax cuts a "retroactive tax increase," Handy fired off a few passionate words to some state senators.

BARENDRECHT, Netherlands - The people of this small Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming.

LONDON - European and U.S. stock markets took a breather Tuesday after a big rally in the previous session had pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to its highest level this year.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Backers of a failed mission to launch the world's first solar-sail spacecraft unveiled plans on Monday to try again five years later with a smaller, swifter satellite to test the limits of sunlight propulsion.

FRIANT, Calif - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a far-reaching water bond intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

Stock market volatility is back, a signal to some experts that the powerful rally that started in early March may be coming to an end.

NEW YORK - Shares of Beazer Homes USA jumped 15 percent Tuesday after the homebuilder posted a fourth-quarter profit and a nice improvement in gross margins.

LONDON (AFP) - World oil prices flattened on Tuesday as worries subsided over the potential threat posed by Hurricane Ida to petroleum installations in the US Gulf of Mexico, analysts said.

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