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The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. confirm their deal creates a GM-funded, UAW-run trust fund to administer retiree health care, but the two sides gave few details. The agreement ending a two-day strike also includes commitments by GM to keep some manufacturing jobs in the United States.

East Timor's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, is hospitalized after being shot in the stomach at his home during a coup attempt. The nation's prime minister escaped injury in an attack on his motorcade.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announces the formation of a new alliance of Shiite and Kurdish parties in an effort to break Baghdad's political impasse. But no Sunni leaders are involved, and key Shiite groups are also not participating.

Oil prices are soaring to levels never anticipated – nearly $100 a barrel. The price of oil affects just about everything that is made, transported, eaten and sold in the United States. But the cost hasn't had the impact on the economy many analysts expected.

Pakistan's Election Commission appears to have cleared the way for President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to seek another term while serving as army chief. However, legal challenges against the president are mounting.

Commentator and cookbook author Nancy Baggett says it's really not so hard to make marshmallows from scratch. More moist, more tender, and more flavorful than store-bought marshmallows, your S'mores, hot chocolate and Heavenly Hash will never be the same again.

For Sunset High School's band, Friday night games help prepare for Saturday competitions. That's when band parents and friends cheer for these champions from Portland, Ore., as lustily as football fans and when judges rate musicianship and movement.

President Obama said Monday the government was doing everything in its power to keep the traveling public safe. Obama was making his first live public statement since a failed attempt to blow up a U.S. jetliner on Christmas Day.

In New York for his first visit to the U.N. since becoming president, Barack Obama spent time meeting with other world leaders. He also addressed the U.N. Summit on Climate Change. With progress stalled on Middle East peace talks as well as climate change, it was a day that underscored the challenges Obama faces.

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