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BEIJING – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) suggested Sunday that European governments are irresponsible if they sell sophisticated weaponry to China that might one day be used against U.S. forces in the Pacific. “It is the United States, not Europe, that is defending the Pacific (search),” Rice said. She …

WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve (search) policy-makers, wanting to prevent a broader outbreak of inflation as oil prices surge, are likely to keep pushing short-term interest rates higher. The Fed is poised to boost its key federal funds rate (search) by one-quarter percentage point to 2.75 percent Tuesday. That would mark …

NEW YORK – As his final evening newscast approaches on Wednesday, Dan Rather (search) is seeing the indignities pile up as quickly as the roses that were tossed in the path of Tom Brokaw (search) when the NBC anchorman stepped down late last year. The latest came in a New …