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The 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday in New York's Columbia University with the Philadelphia Inquirer receiving the coveted public service Pulitzer.
The US is withholding from Cuba some $245 million in frozen assets as part of its 50-year economic blockade against the Caribbean island nation.
An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Chile at 11:50 am Beijing Time Tuesday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
A powerful earthquake struck the Chilean capital Santiago on Monday.
Parents of the two Chinese students slain last week near the University of Southern California (USC) campus have visited the crime scene and will talk to detectives, police said Monday.
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta proposed new action on Monday to crack down on sexual assault in the military, seeking to boost prosecution of the crime.
Five years after a mentally ill student gunned down 32 people at Virginia Tech, the university on Monday held classes for the first time on the anniversary of the country's deadliest mass shooting.
Eight men charged with running an elaborate online narcotics market that sold drugs to 3,000 people in the United States and 34 other countries have been arrested following a two-year investigation dubbed "Operation Adam Bomb," prosecutors said on Monday.
The 96th annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday with the Philadelphia Inquirer receiving the coveted public service Pulitzer.
The World Bank announced Monday that Jim Yong Kim, the US candidate, has been selected as the Bank's new president.
A record-breaking 87,000 Chinese got US green cards in 2011, according to the US Department of Homeland Security, but fewer Chinese chose to become US citizens compared with the past two years.
The United States and Colombia agreed on Sunday to boost security cooperation in the Western Hemisphere and West Africa.
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