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SAN FRANCISCO – Prosecutors asked an appeals court Tuesday to reinstate a murder conviction for a woman who served two years in prison for manslaughter in the dog-mauling death of a neighbor. Separately, Marjorie Knoller‘s (search) attorneys asked the court to reverse her March 2002 conviction in the death of …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Stories of homicide bombers or kidnappers get most of the news headlines out of Iraq (search) but U.S. officials working in the country want Americans to think about other things when they mull the millions of tax dollars spent there. U.S. and Iraqi workers are joining to …

WASHINGTON – President Bush poked fun at himself at a press corps dinner Saturday night and offered a new reason for overhauling the Social Security system. Raising the name of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (search), Bush said, “We have to fix it or Rumsfeld may never retire.” Bush noted — …