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WASHINGTON – The nation’s poverty rate was essentially unchanged last year, the first year it hasn’t increased since before President Bush took office. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 37 million Americans were living under the poverty line last year — about 12.6 percent of the population. That’s down from …

LOS ANGELES – Football season started early as Mark Wahlberg’s “ Invincible ,” a Walt Disney tale about a real-life walk-on who signed with the Philadelphia Eagles in the 1970s, debuted as the top weekend movie with $17 million. The previous No. 1 flick, New Line Cinema’s “Snakes on a …

LONDON – British authorities charged a man with violating the country’s terrorism law Thursday, bringing to 12 the number of people formally charged in the alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound commercial flights, police said. Umair Hussain, 24, was charged by prosecutors with having information about a possible terrorist act …