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Circuit City Posts Surprise Profit

NEW YORK – Circuit City Stores Inc. (CC) , the No. 2 U.S. electronics chain, Tuesday posted a surprise second-quarter profit, helped by strong sales of plasma TVs and other digital products. Shares of Circuit City, which is trying to stem more than four years of market-share losses to top-ranked …

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Talks on N. Korea Nuclear Program Resume

BEIJING – Negotiations aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons aspirations resumed Tuesday after a monthlong recess, but prospects for progress were uncertain as Pyongyang (search) remained insistent on its right to a civilian atomic program. Envoys from China, Japan, Russia, the United States and the two Koreas gathered at …

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Thousands Bused, Airlifted From New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS – The last bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on Saturday and the convention center was all but cleared, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care. No one knows …

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