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NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Ray Nagin (search) said Wednesday he is abandoning his proposal to create a downtown casino district as a way of revitalizing the city’s shattered economy, bitterly complaining of resistance from politicians around the state. “We have the most significant challenge of any city in American history …

WASHINGTON – The National Guard and Reserves are suffering a strikingly higher share of U.S. casualties (search) in Iraq, their portion of total American military deaths nearly doubling since last year. Reservists have accounted for one-quarter of all U.S. deaths since the Iraq war began, but the proportion has grown …

ROME – U.N. officials said Tuesday they are exploring ways to step up the production of a vaccine in case bird flu mutates and sparks a human flu pandemic (search). David Nabarro, the U.N. coordinator for avian and human influenza, said it will take six months to build up a …