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has good news for retailers. It says shoppers will be spending 20-percent MORE on holiday gifts this year. The retail industry relies heavily on holiday purchases...for some it totals half their annual sales.

This week, the director of the federal government's human genome project announced that papers he co-authored contained fabricated data collected by a junior scientist in his laboratory.

. Garment workers have suffered massive layoffs as apparel companies are moving overseas to find cheaper labor. The loss of jobs is devastating local economies.

The revival comes in the form of ballot initiatives in fourteen states where, if passed, candidates who do not vote for term limits will be marked with a notation on future ballots.

about House Speaker Gingrich and President Clinton might affect each one's ability to govern in the new year... as well as the prospects for bipartisan cooperation between Congress and the White House in the New Year.

where large numbers of Kurdish refugees are fleeing towards Iran. This exodus follows yesterday's capture of northern Iraq's biggest city by the Kurdish faction allied with Saddam Hussein.

that's designed to keep legal immigrants from taking advantage of public assistance programs. Some experts think the efforts will merely shift the burden of helping immigrants to state and local governments.

In apparent defiance of Alexander Lebed, Yeltsin's national security advisor, the Russian military commander in Chechnya has vowed to clear the rebels from the Chechen capital of Grozny.

is in Okinawa to conclude a deal with the island's governor on the status of U.S. bases there. The agreement will allow the U.S. bases to remain despite last week's overwhelming referendum result that called for an end to the American presence there.

Kentucky State Police say a complaint of a man possessing a gun at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services Building in Frankfort appears to be…