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Winter weather is making travel difficult in parts of the county. The blizzard is making its way through the lower plains.

The seven-character change is expected to save Twitter $1.4 billion this year.

More and more consumers are buying electronics online instead of at Best Buy's sprawling showrooms. So the struggling electronics retailer is shifting strategy: closing some of its giant stores, opening smaller ones and cutting 400 jobs.

Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands 30 years ago Monday, touching off a short but bloody war with Britain. Argentina lost, and the islands in the frigid South Atlantic stayed under British control. However, Argentina still claims the islands.

Hospitals trying to eliminate unhealthy food from their cafeterias are finding that uprooting fast food chains isn't easy.

Duke's career spanned five decades and he always straddled the line between disparate genres, collaborating with artists such as Miles Davis, Barry Manilow and Frank Zappa.

The U.S. secretaries of state and defense met their Russian counterparts for a day of talks in Washington on Friday. They hope to find common ground despite U.S.-Russian friction over the Edward Snowden asylum case.

President Obama hosted the Senate's leading Democrats at the White House for more than an hour Saturday afternoon, in a session that came the same day that Majority Leader Harry Reid met with Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell.

In other news, a Japanese lawmaker is in trouble for handing the emperor a letter, a taboo in the country where the imperial family's role remains a sensitive one; and a Ghanaian minister is fired for allegedly saying she'll stay in politics until she makes at least $1 million.

Thamsanqa Jantjie was widely criticized as a "fake" for his performance at Nelson Mandela's memorial service. He now says he was hearing voices and seeing hallucinations, according to media reports.