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Rolls-Royce says it has "made progress" in its investigation into the cause of engine problems on the Airbus A380.

The firm did not say whether its engineers had identified what caused one of its engines to break apart on a Qantas flight last Thursday.

But the British firm said the problem was specific to the type of engine being used on the...

PARAMUS, N.J. – The Goodwill store in this middle-class New York suburb is buzzing on a recent weekend afternoon. A steady flow of shoppers comb through racks filled with second-hand clothes, shoes, blankets and dishes.
A few years ago, opening a Goodwill store here wouldn't have made sense. Paramus is one of the biggest ZIP codes in the country...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected without comment the first challenge to reach it of the new federal healthcare law.

The rejection leaves in place a lower-court ruling that since no one had been injured yet by the law no one had "standing" to sue.

There was some speculation that new Justice Elena Kagan,...

The chief counsel for the president's oil spill commission said Monday that concerns about money didn't drive key decisions made on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig before the April 20 blowout that caused a massive oil spill and killed 11 people.

The conclusion is good news for BP, which has been widely criticized for letting concerns about...

PORT ANGELES -- Lee Daniel Renfro did more than illegally drive past a guard station and onto the Port Angeles Coast Guard base earlier this year.

Undetected, the Forest Grove, Ore., Navy veteran made it past a second watch shack at 5:30 a.m. March 28, then boarded the 210-foot cutter Active.

Renfro strolled into the Active's commanding...