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Walmart legal troubles mount as Black Friday walkout looms

By Schuyler Velasco Walmart workers aren't happy, and they're letting their employer know it. In the midst of worker strikes in several cities and the looming threat of a mass employee walkout on Black Friday (one of the busiest shopping days of the year), the world's largest retailer

Convicted terrorist sentenced in millennium plot

By GENE JOHNSONAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - An Algerian man whose sentence for plotting to blow up the Los Angeles airport around the turn of the new millennium was thrown out for being too lenient was ordered Wednesday to spend 37 years in prison. Ahmed Ressam, who had trained with al-Qaida

Huawei executive urges Australia to avoid US lead

By ROD McGUIRKAssociated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - The head of the Australian subsidiary of Huawei Technologies Ltd. has urged Australia not to be swayed by report from the U.S. Congress that referred to the Chinese telecommunications giant as a potential security risk. Huawei Australia

Swing-state voters hit with mail ad barrage

By BRIAN BAKSTAssociated Press MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) - Around lunchtime each day, the latest missives promoting or pillorying Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney arrive in Diane Ouradnik's mailbox. Before long, they're in her trash. Tearing and tossing has