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COTA's proposed .5% sales tax increase will not be on the ballot this November.

The Republican-led Senate turns down two separate proposals to raise the minimum wage -- which has been $5.15 per hour since 1996. The rival measures were both amendments to a business-backed bill that makes it harder to erase debts through bankruptcy.

The takeover bid by China's third largest oil company for Unocal is evidence of the country's voracious appetite for energy. The $18.5 billion offer is likely to spark a bidding war with Chevron. Some U.S. lawmakers are outraged at the thought of a Chinese company taking over a U.S. oil and gas firm.

Big-league baseball returns to Washington, D.C., with a bang after a 34-years absence. The Washington Nationals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 in the team's home opener Thursday night before a sellout crowd at a refurbished Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday morning that the prisoners at Guantanamo do have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. The justices ruled 5-4 that the Constitutional right of habeas corpus applies to the detainees even in "extraordinary times."

Now 70 years old, Wayne Kramer — co-founder of the short-lived, influential Detroit rock band The MC5 — reflects on life as an artist, near-revolutionary, bumbling outlaw and prison reform advocate.

English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker. Pinter has earned his own adjective, "Pinteresque," which refers to his use of spare dialogue and banal settings to create a sense of dread and implied violence in everyday relationships.

The Biden administration is scrapping plans to offer COVID boosters for people under 50 this summer. Instead officials will push for an earlier release of the next generation boosters in the fall.

The success of the 5-Star Movement and the right-wing League in Sunday's election is the worst blow to the European Union since British voters chose to leave the EU two years ago.

Rescue workers fanned across Turkey and Syria in a second day of desperate searches to find survivors from the massive earthquake and aftershocks that had the death toll climbing by the hour.