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WASHINGTON – More than 1 billion people a year will be boarding planes in the United States within a decade, nearly half again as many as those now using an aviation system showing signs of being overburdened. The Federal Aviation Administration (search), which released the forecast Thursday, faces spending cuts …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A federal grand jury indicted three people Monday for allegedly using counterfeit credit cards (search) to ring up millions of dollars in fraudulent purchases in the United States and Canada between 1998 and 2001. The case “may be one of the largest counterfeit credit card rings …

WASHINGTON – House Republicans proposed a $2.57 trillion budget Wednesday that would cut a wide range of domestic programs while gradually reducing record federal deficits. The spending plan would trim $69 billion from benefit programs over the next five years. While decisions about which specific programs will be targeted will …

PHILADELPHIA – Three teenagers were convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday for bludgeoning a friend to death for $500 — money they used for a drug binge. Jason Sweeney (search), a 16-year-old who was on the fringe of the teens’ social circle in the city’s blue-collar Fishtown (search) neighborhood, was lured …

LOS ANGELES – The way former President Reagan (search) and his wife, Nancy, would carry on about their love for each other, one might have gotten the impression their romance was carved in stone – and it turns out it was. A part-time estate liquidation consultant who was looking for …

NEW YORK – The jury deliberating fraud charges against Bernard Ebbers (search), former chief executive of WorldCom Inc., asked to review testimony by a key defense witness Friday before breaking for the weekend without a verdict. Jurors asked to be excused at 1 p.m. EST, cutting short their sixth day …

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) on Tuesday named NCR Corp. (NCR) Chief Executive Mark Hurd (search) to lead the No. 2 computer maker and replace Carly Fiorina (search), who was ousted in February. HP said that Hurd, 48, will also serve as president of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company. Hurd will take …

NEW YORK – American International Group Inc. (AIG) on Wednesday acknowledged accounting errors that could stretch back 14 years, including its treatment of a deal with Berkshire Hathaway that is at the center of federal and state investigations. AIG’s sweeping disclosures — which included the possibility that it may be …

Hi all, As I write this, 100 percent of your e-mails are saying Michael Jackson (search) was putting on an act at court Thursday. And nearly every single one of you who wrote in noticed how Michael was somehow able to swivel around and wave to his fans, despite hospital-severe …

BALTIMORE – Jurors began deliberations Wednesday following closing arguments in the trial of a former priest accused of sexually molesting an altar boy, who shot the cleric on a city street a decade after the alleged abuse. Maurice Blackwell (search), 58, who did not testify, faces up to 60 years …