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MAYER, Ariz. – Residents of a central Arizona subdivision were ordered to evacuate Wednesday morning as a brush fire threatened their homes, authorities said. The blaze was started by lightning early Wednesday and had spread to about 200 acres by late morning, officials said. The U.S. Forest Service ordered all …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit resumed rising in April after two months of rare declines, pushed higher by surging oil prices and a flood of imported furniture, televisions and toys from China. The gap between what the United States sells abroad and what it imports rose to $63.4 billion …

GROZNY, Russia – Police killed the Chechen rebel leader Saturday acting on a tip from within his network, a possible blow to efforts to spread the increasingly Islam-inspired insurgency throughout southern Russia. Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev was shot during a raid on a hideout in his Chechen hometown of Argun, nine miles …