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Soaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers

Yang and many other young Chinese are finding their aspirations thwarted by an overheated property market that is enriching already wealthy speculators, local officials...

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E-mails show Washington state battled to keep Clemmons in custody

When Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of killing four Lakewood police officers, walked free from a Pierce County jail last week, it wasn't for lack of effort...

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