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NEW YORK – Applications for U.S. home mortgages increased last week as purchasing and refinancing activity rose despite higher interest rates on fixed loans, an industry group said on Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association (search) said its seasonally adjusted index of mortgage application activity increased 6.1 percent to 683.6 in …

It was in the summer of 2001 when a top secret message was delivered to Farid Solemani (search). “We received news from a very valuable source within the Iranian regime,” said Solemani, who worked for more than a decade to expose Iran’s nuclear program. That message, if true, was explosive …

FORT RUCKER, Ala. – An Army officer was acquitted by a military judge Wednesday of raping a soldier in her barracks room, a claim the defense said she concocted to keep from being sent to Iraq. First Lt. Mike Hall (search), 35, had testified in his court-martial that a night …