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DETROIT – Shares of General Motors Corp. (GM) extended their decline on Wednesday, losing another 4 percent, after news that billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s investment company sold 12 million shares. GM’s stock, already down 50 percent this year, fell to its lowest in more than 20 years after Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp. …

NEW YORK – Shops without shoppers. Work without workers. For three days, a transit strike in the city that never sleeps forced much of its hard-charging economy to take a fitful nap. But how much damage did the strike actually inflict on the economy? Probably not nearly as much as …

WASHINGTON – It looked like a seizure when little Alexzandra Gonzales jerked and then went limp, barely breathing. A frantic race to the hospital led to a diagnosis her parents found hard to believe: Just days before her first birthday, she had had a stroke. “We never knew that children …