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WASHINGTON – North Korea (search) began nagging its communist allies as early as the 1960s to obtain a nuclear reactor with the intent of launching a hidden weapons program, according to former Soviet bloc documents released Tuesday. Over the next two decades, responses generally were negative, sometimes to the point …

NEW YORK – The integrity of the probe into the Oil-for-Food program is at stake and lives may be in jeopardy if sensitive information regarding details of the investigation is leaked, Paul Volcker (search) said Friday. Volcker, the man picked by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan (search) to lead the investigation, …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A man who refuses to reveal the whereabouts of his two children was sent to prison Friday for 10 years on an unrelated gun charge — a stiff sentence prosecutors hope will persuade him to talk. Daniel Porter (search), 42, is awaiting trial in November on …