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WASHINGTON – Democratic efforts to let bankruptcy judges rewrite mortgages for strapped borrowers won’t make it through Congress this year, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee said Tuesday. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told The Associated Press in an interview that the only thing lawmakers can do to get …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A rocket carrying telecommunications equipment has launched into space. An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the equipment lifted off at 4:12 p.m. Monday and was the heaviest payload ever launched aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. The equipment will help with the operation of cell phones and other …

ATLANTA – Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau is heading to Beijing with a startling diagnosis: He has cancer. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Shanteau said he learned just a week before the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., that he has testicular cancer. His doctors cleared him to compete …