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WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The stigma of food stamps is fading amid record use of the U.S. nutrition program, which now feeds more than 36 million people, officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Money and politics remain big obstacles to setting firm emission targets for a legally binding treaty to replace the Kyoto agreement, U.S. authorities said.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- As many as 9,000 additional U.S. Marines shortly are expected to renew an assault on Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan, authorities said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Osama bin Laden was cornered in the Afghan mountains in 2001 but the United States did not deploy massive force to capture or kill him, a Senate report says.

EVANSTON, Ill., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Like bad relatives, the young coyotes came to my neighborhood for a summer visit and decided to stay.

PERUGIA, Italy, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The parents of a U.S. student charged with killing her housemate in Italy are under investigation for allegedly defaming Perugia homicide detectives.

PATERSON, N.J., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man shot his estranged wife and two sons, killing the younger son, before being gunned down by a police officer Saturday, police said.

SEOUL, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Employees of a state-owned business have no right to strike, the president of South Korea said Saturday, taking a hard line on a walkout by railway employees.

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The Obama administration plans to use shame and delays in financial incentives to get U.S. banks to help more homeowners, government officials said.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The couple who crashed U.S. President Barack Obama's first state dinner are trying to sell their story for hundreds of thousands of dollars, sources said.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to bust up a violent protest of an upcoming international trade meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, officials said.

DETROIT, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Two Canadian men are entitled to $350,000 each from a Detroit suburb for being wrongfully arrested for assault and jailed several days, a federal judge says.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Amnesty International wants an investigation of a shooting by military personnel in the Honduran capitol of Tegucigalpa, and protection of witnesses, it says.