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ST. CHARLES, Ill (Reuters) - This time around John Abel was ready for the stock market crash.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Susan Coyne had her heart set on a new pair of earrings at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York, a purchase she would not have thought twice about even a few weeks ago.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. immigration agents arrested about 300 workers at a South Carolina poultry plant on Tuesday, the latest in a series of workplace raids targeting illegal immigrants and employers across the United States.

CAMDEN, New Jersey (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Tuesday for five Muslim men accused of plotting to attack a New Jersey army base out of a large pool of 1,500 people in the hopes of finding 18 unbiased jurors.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is looking for support from Detroit city pension officials to refinance its Detroit headquarters and could possibly sell it, but has no plans to move from the iconic building.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration will respond soon to a letter from California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that said his state could need the federal government to buy $7 billion in notes because of a frozen municipal debt market, a White House official said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talking about death may be upsetting but a doctor's frank discussion with a terminally ill person does no harm and provides numerous benefits for patients and those close to them, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. ranchers and processors lost almost $11 billion in revenue between 2004 and 2007 after major importers barred U.S. beef following the discovery of mad cow disease in the United States, according to a government report issued on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two television commercials for Bayer AG's birth control pill Yaz give a misleading impression of its benefits, U.S. health regulators warned the company in a letter released on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. household heating fuel costs will rise 15 percent this winter from last year, the government's top energy forecasting agency said on Tuesday, citing more expensive fuel and the likelihood of much colder weather than last winter.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oral cough and cold medicines sold over the counter should not be used in children younger than 4 years old because of the risk of rare complications linked to inappropriate use, manufacturers said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former top lawyer at UBS AG has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle accusations he sold his personal holdings of auction-rate securities after getting insider information about the collapsing market for the debt.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. retail gasoline demand dropped to its lowest level since September 2005 as gasoline demand dwindled due to the wider U.S. economic slowdown, MasterCard Advisors said Tuesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The actor who played muscular "Mr. Clean" in hundreds of dirt-busting television commercials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 92, his family said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adults should aim to get in 2 1/2 hours of exercise a week and children should run and play for at least an hour a day, according to new exercise guidelines issued by the U.S. government on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Unprecedented demand for precious metals and volatile markets forced the U.S. Mint to cease production for the half-ounce and quarter-ounce popular American Eagle gold coins for the rest of this year and to supply other bullion coins on an allocation basis.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Economic turmoil won't stop investments that help the environment, but the focus will be on saving energy and money rather than massive change, a top California environment official said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Armor Holdings unit of BAE Systems has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve charges that it knowingly made and sold defective bullet-proof vests used by U.S. police and emergency workers, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Tampa Bay Rays roared into the American League Championship Series with a 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Monday, sealing their division series by a 3-1 margin with a win highlighted by two B.J. Upton homers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The arbiter of U.S. recessions is not ready to declare that one has begun and probably won't decide until well after the November presidential election, a prominent member of the recession-dating committee said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's vaunted restaurant scene is in for some lean times, according to the newest Zagat survey released on Tuesday, with price hikes coming at a time when diners say they are eating out less often and spending less in the face of dire economic conditions.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States economy is in for further job losses and soft consumer spending in the short run, which should help pull down inflation, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Gary Stern said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Ted Stevens told an oil-executive friend, in recordings played on Monday at the Alaska Republican's corruption trial, they both risked going to jail -- but he didn't think it would come to that.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The director of the White House war on drugs said on Monday that Internet videos that show people getting high pose a dangerous threat to teenagers by encouraging them to use drugs and alcohol.

(Reuters) - A federal inquiry has concluded that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should consider disciplining its director of enforcement and two supervisors for their role in handling an insider trading investigation, The New York Times said citing an obtained report.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A sister agency to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched a report on formaldehyde in trailers used to house survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, leaving thousands of people at risk, a report from a House of Representatives subcommittee said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers who died in prisoner of war camps as long ago as World War Two can now receive Purple Heart medals once reserved for troops killed or wounded in combat, the Defense Department said on Monday.

(Reuters) - A jury ruled on Monday that the owners of New York's Plaza Hotel could use the Plaza name on a proposed $5 billion resort-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, despite the existence nearby of another Plaza Hotel and Casino, the New York Times said in a report on its Web site.