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• Smithsonian exhibit on American music will travel...
  ASBURY PARK, N.J. — The Smithsonian hears America singing, playing instruments and telling its history through music.The Washington cultural ...
• No need for pricey helicopter tours or luaus
  HONOLULU — While planning a weeklong family trip to Hawaii as an escape from winter, I kept getting suggestions from friends, websites and even ...
• Take a break from South Beach in MiMo: Biscayne...
  MIAMI — For travellers looking for respite from South Beach clubs and the oh-so-chic Design District, the offbeat Miami Modern District — also ...
• For solitude, try history-infused walk in woods at...
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Atop an oak-shaded hill at Mount Hope Cemetery, an epitaph chiselled in Latin on Col. Nathaniel Rochester’s headstone whispers ...
• Cambodia: After temples, try simple pleasures of the...
  KOH TONSAY, Cambodia — Ask for the crab. In black peppercorn sauce.The proprietor of the thatched-roof and bamboo-walled island restaurant will ...
• Nomadic Mongolian lifestyle fades but yurts,...
  CHIFENG, China — It’s no longer about the armed warriors, Genghis Khan and the robed nomads prancing through lush greenery on horseback.In ...
• Atlantic City hopes ’Boardwalk Empire’ will...
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — What “The Sopranos” did for a pork store in northern New Jersey and “Sex and the City” did for a Manhattan cupcake shop, ...
• Old city in San Juan, Puerto Rico, echoes with...
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Old San Juan echoes with centuries of history, dating back to the island’s discovery by Christopher Columbus in 1493 and ...
• A taste of something different: Wineries adding...
  GEYSERVILLE, Calif. — Think a winery visit means bellying up to a bar with a couple of glasses and a spit bucket? You haven’t been to wine ...
• Tripbase travel horoscopes: Look to the stars for...
  By Anne Wallace Allen I’m signed up to use 10 vacation days at Christmas, and I’m trying to decide what to do with it.Because I’m a Virgo, it ...
• Chaos in Kandahar: NATO opens fire on civilian bus,...
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — There was mayhem Monday in the streets of Kandahar as three suicide bombers staged a failed attack on the city’s ...
• Obama, China’s Hu, tell aides to work on tough...
  WASHINGTON — Amid a sudden upswing in relations, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao sought common ground Monday on Iran, ...
• Castroneves holds off Dixon to win Indy Grand Prix...
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Helio Castroneves’ strategies were all about preservation: First the fuel and then the lead.Castroneves deftly managed both ...
• Obama: Al-Qaida would use nuke if it could;...
  WASHINGTON — If al-Qaida acquired nuclear weapons it “would have no compunction at using them,” President Barack Obama said Sunday on the eve of ...
• Eurozone nations offer Greece C30B loans this year...
  BRUSSELS, Belgium — Desperate to halt the Greek debt crisis that has hammered the euro, fellow eurozone governments tossed it a financial ...
• ’Pimp My Ride,’ ex-’Survivor’ producer’s...
  MEXICO CITY — “Pimp My Ride” and former “Survivor” producer Bruce Beresford-Redman was detained Thursday as a suspect in his wife’s death days ...
• Toxic gas levels in W.Va. mine drop; rescuers hope...
  MONTCOAL, W.Va. — Levels of noxious gas dropped Thursday in a coal mine where 25 workers died in an explosion, giving rescuers hope that they ...
• Federal officials cited W. Virginia Massey mine...
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Massey Energy coal mine where 25 people died in an explosion was cited for violating two federal safety rules on the day ...
• Taliban release video of captured American soldier...
  WASHINGTON — The Taliban released a video Wednesday of a man identified as an American soldier captured in Afghanistan last June, showing him ...
• Pain from torrent in Rio falls heavily on slums; at...
  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rodrigo de Almeira had dug for 15 hours through mud and debris, and he looked like it. Auburn mud covered his head, his ...
• Tense but peaceful hearing for blacks accused of...
  VENTERSDORP, South Africa — A racially charged standoff outside a courthouse where a teenager and another black farm worker were charged with ...
• Calif. AG says Corey Haim obtained more than 550...
  LOS ANGELES — Actor Corey Haim employed “doctor shopping” to obtain 553 prescription pills in the two months before his death, California ...
• 7.7 quake hits off Indonesia’s Sumatra island; no...
  JAKARTA, Indonesia — A 7.7 earthquake shook Indonesia’s northwest island of Sumatra early Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning and ...
• Militants stage bomb-and-grenade attack on U.S....
  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamist militants unleashed a car bomb and grenade attack against a U.S. consulate in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, ...
• In social dealings, being older is being wiser, says...
  WASHINGTON — It turns out grandma was right: Listen to your elders. New research indicates they are indeed wise — in knowing how to deal with ...
• Michael Jackson family turning out for hearing of...
  LOS ANGELES — Dozens of Michael Jackson fans rallied outside a Los Angeles courthouse where the pop star’s doctor had a hearing Thursday in his ...
• Salvagers could take weeks to remove coal carrier...
  BRISBANE, Australia — A salvage team could take weeks to remove a grounded coal-carrying from Australia’s Great barrier Reef where it is leaking ...
• Raul Castro vows Cuba won’t give in to...
  HAVANA, Cuba — Raul Castro called mounting international pressure over Cuba’s human rights record one of the strongest assaults its communist ...
• Magnitude-7.2 quake in Mexico collapses parking...
  LOS ANGELES — A powerful earthquake in Baja California in Mexico rocked the U.S.-Mexico border region Sunday, collapsing a parking structure and ...
• Teens charged in ‘unrelenting’ bullying of Irish...
  NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – Nine teens have been charged in the “unrelenting” bullying of a teenage girl from Ireland who killed herself after being ...