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WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (search) is seeking 2,000 Homeland Security Department workers to spend two weeks carrying out duties in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina (search). FEMA director Michael Brown told Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff (search) in a letter that he needs 1,000 people within …

Did you know that collectibles, and even country-club memberships, qualify for long-term capital-gains rates? If you’re a stock or mutual-fund investor, then you probably know that investments held for more than a year and sold for a profit are subject to lower tax rates as long-term capital gains. Generally speaking, …

KIEV, Ukraine – Russia apologized Monday to two U.S. senators who were detained for three hours in an airport while officials refused to let their U.S. military flight take off. Sens. Richard Lugar (search), R-Ind., and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Barack Obama (search), D-Ill., arrived in …