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Americans can maintain a balance between enhancing border security and remaining a nation made up of immigrants, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said Thursday.

Newspapers are seeing tremendous growth in online advertising, but as executives presented midyear updates to investors Tuesday, analysts still wonder whether it's enough.

High in the rain forest canopy, a lemur with orange, black and white fur leaps among the branches to cries of delight from onlookers below.

It's convention time, do you know where your mayor is? If you live in a major American city, the answer is probably Las Vegas, this year's host of the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting.

Three years after the first outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, experts are still puzzling at how the disease spread across three continents so quickly and how wild birds have helped disseminate the deadly virus.

American Indians and Alaska natives need more research on how HIV and AIDS affect their communities, and culturally sensitive treatment needs to be created to combat the diseases, officials said at a health conference Wednesday.

A Chinese diplomat said Monday that North Korean negotiators were warming toward a resumption of talks on ending the North's nuclear weapons program, but the top U.S. envoy said he has no plans to meet directly with his counterpart from Pyongyang.

North and South Korean officials hoped to find common ground in talks Saturday on the sidelines of a security conference in Tokyo.

Officials from the six countries participating in talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament will meet at a private security conference in Japan next week, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.

Mormon church president Gordon B. Hinckley said on Sunday he is in the "sunset of my life" and suffering from some residual health problems after undergoing major surgery earlier this year.

Brazil announced plans to expand protection of the Amazon rain forest, and its president on Monday called on wealthy nations to do more to protect the environment.

Folk music promoter Tom Neff can't go anywhere without meeting someone who used to love Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, or Peter, Paul and Mary.