Record-high gold prices make it tempting to sell Here's something every TV-watching insomniac knows: If you've got unwanted gold, buyers are out there with persuasive pitches for taking it off your hands. [More] By Julie Muhlstein
Herald Columnist
World leaders push climate control goal back SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama and other world leaders agreed today that next month’s much-anticipated climate change summit will be merely a way station, not the once hoped-for end point, in the search for a global warming... [More] Associated Press
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China deals with racism SHANGHAI — As a mixed-race girl growing up in this most cosmopolitan of mainland Chinese cities, 20-year-old Lou Jing said she never experienced much discrimination — curiosity and questions, but never hostility. [More] By Keith Richburg
The Washington Post
House bill cuts senior care, nonpartisan agency reports WASHINGTON A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending one of the biggest sources of funding for President Barack Obamas proposed overhaul of the nations health-care system would sharply... [More] The Washington Post
Technicians use a little trimaran to monitor the region’s rivers EVERSON — Jeff Paulat walked slowly along the Nooksack River bridge at the edge of town, using a green nylon rope to drag a small orange plastic trimaran along the churning surface of the grayish-brown water, from one end of the bridge to the... [More] By John Stark
The Bellingham Herald Northwest Briefly: Bremerton girl who died had swine flu BREMERTON — Health officials say a Bremerton girl who died Monday had swine flu, but it's unclear if the virus directly caused her death. The 4-year-old died Monday, but tests didn't confirm the presence of H1N1 until Friday. [More]