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WASHINGTON – The State Department is investigating “serious and credible” reports that minorities in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq have been wrongly arrested and detained, spokesman Sean McCormack (search) said Wednesday. The U.S. government has conveyed its insistence on the rule of law and its support for minority rights to …

NEW YORK – Output at factories in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States slowed this month, a regional central bank said Thursday, the latest evidence that the U.S. economy may be headed for softer growth. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve (search) said its business activity index fell to minus 2.2 …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit (search) widened less than expected in April to $57 billion, as both exports and imports set records, the Commerce Department (search) said on Friday. The monthly trade gap expanded 6.3 percent from March, but was below the median forecast of $58 billion from a …