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LOS ANGELES – Terminal operators say dock workers have started reporting for night shift duty at West Coast ports and after a daylong May Day work stoppage. Pacific Maritime Association spokesman Steve Getzug says longshore workers are lining up for evening shift assignments at dispatch halls at the ports of …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s new parliament speaker says Tehran could impose new limits on its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog. Iran’s former nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, was elected as parliament speaker Wednesday. Moments later, he told parliament that a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency was “deplorable.” …

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are debating legislation to give national security officials full control over whether to move research of highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock. The Bush administration requested the change, which would erode the role of the Agriculture …