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The International Gymnastics Federation asks U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm to give his Olympic all-around gold medal to South Korea's Yang Tae-young. Yang lost the gold due to a scoring error, but FIG refused to change the final scores. Hear NPR's Alex Chadwick and NPR's Howard Berkes.

President Bush's new goals to address global warming aren't likely to go over well at international talks opening Thursday in Paris. The president's goals allow U.S. emissions to keep on growing for another 17 years, while most industrial nations are stepping toward lower emissions.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Wendy Cutler, vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former U.S. trade negotiator, about the U.S.-China trade talks, which resumed Monday in Beijing.

A powerful storm system hit the southeast United States Sunday night and Monday, killing at least 30 people, injuring scores of others and cutting power to more than a million homes and businesses.

The National Weather Service warned of continued hazards as wintry conditions linger, particularly in Virginia and the Carolinas.

Three Green Berets were killed and two more were wounded in an ambush in Niger. The U.S. special forces are in Niger to train local forces in anti-terrorism tactics to battle violent extremists.

The United States' financial system dominates transactions around the world and firms scramble to make sure they don't violate newly imposed sanctions.

Warships from the U.S. and Russia narrowly avoided a collision in the Philippine sea. The countries are blaming each other.

Anglican leaders meeting in Canterbury have temporarily suspended the U.S. Episcopal Church from full participation in the Anglican Communion. The move comes at the behest of conservative bishops — mostly from Africa — who are unhappy with the American church's stance on same-sex marriage and gay clergy.

The U.S. women haven't lost a game at the Olympics since 1992. They have medaled in all nine of the Olympics they've competed in, and they're hoping their next medal is another gold one.