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WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, under pressure from business leaders, retreated Monday from a plan that would have used a tax increase on oil companies and other businesses to fund a $100 gasoline rebate for millions of motorists. Frist, the Tennessee Republican, had proposed an accounting change that …

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania – Preliminary investigations have failed to yield an explanation of why hundreds of dolphins left their deep offshore habitat, got stranded in shallow waters and later washed up dead on Zanzibar’s northern coast, a scientist said Tuesday. “It is a mystery,” Narriman Jiddawi, a marine biologist at the …

HONOLULU – Hawaii politicians are scrambling to gather enough votes in Congress to pass a bill that would grant Native Hawaiians a degree of self-government and possibly a share of the land ruled by their ancestors. After seven years of debate, the proposal to recognize Native Hawaiians as indigenous inhabitants …