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MINNEAPOLIS – Northwest Airlines Corp. flight attendants rejected a pay cut package on Tuesday, setting up a possible showdown with the nation’s fifth-largest carrier. The Professional Flight Attendants Association said 80 percent of its members voted against the wage-cut deal. Northwest, which has been operating under bankruptcy protection since last …

Home-based sole proprietors generate $102 billion in combined annual revenue, and their ranks are expected to keep growing, according to a new study by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Investing page. While home-based sole proprietors bring in almost $15,700 less on average than …

PHILADELPHIA – A City Council member jumped into the debate over a sign at one of Philadelphia’s best-known cheesesteak joints that reads: “This Is AMERICA: WHEN ORDERING ‘SPEAK ENGLISH.”‘ During the council’s meeting Thursday, Councilman Jim Kenney asked Geno’s Cheesesteaks owner Joseph Vento to take the small sign down. The …

MANCHESTER, Tenn. – A tour bus carrying bluegrass artist Ricky Skaggs from a performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival struck and killed a man, authorities said. The bus was traveling south Friday night on Interstate 24 about a mile (1 1/2 kilometers) from the exit for the festival …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraq’s premier said Thursday he will present his choices for defense and interior ministers in three days as violence once again gripped the capital. In Baghdad violence, seven mortar rounds hit houses in the predominantly Sunni Arab southern Dora district, killing nine civilians and wounding 40. And …

WASHINGTON – Opponents of a Texas district map won a partial victory Wednesday when the Supreme Court ruled that some of the new boundaries don’t protect minority voting rights. But much of the congressional map designed by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay in 2003 likely will stay intact, especially …

INDIANAPOLIS – A two-day manhunt for an ex-convict suspected of gunning down seven members of one family ended with the man walking into a fast-food restaurant and surrendering to police. Desmond Turner was being held without bail Sunday and authorities said they were not looking for anyone else in connection …

WASHINGTON – Hoping to speed approval of war funds, House-Senate negotiators were to meet Tuesday evening on legislation to pay for the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and for hurricane relief along the Gulf Coast. After missing a Memorial Day deadline, negotiators hope to seal agreement this week. The White …

NEW YORK – Brad Pitt was named one of “15 People Who Make America Great” by Newsweek magazine for using his megawatt star power to shine some light on some often neglected causes in Africa. Pitt, a constant target of the paparazzi, told the magazine that he figured if the …

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – A man stabbed his two young sons and dragged them into a lake, leaving one dead, hours after taking them from his father-in-law’s house at knifepoint, police say. Police with search dogs were combing Dean’s Lake for Katron Walker on Tuesday night when he ran out …