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BOSTON – Turnpike officials have said taxpayers won’t be saddled with the cost of fixing leaks in the $14.6 billion Big Dig (search) highway project — but a top federal watchdog isn’t so sure. Kenneth Mead, inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation, said the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (search) …

Tough talk on judges. A bitter dispute over John Bolton (search), the president’s nominee for U.N. ambassador. Senate Democrats are talking tough. Where will the war of words end? We’ll have the latest from Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Assistant Minority Leader Richard Durbin, D-Ill. Some religious conservatives say Senate …

LUANDA, Angola – On her daily bus commute, Virginia Jamba overheard people talking in horrified tones about an incurable disease that was killing people in a city north of the capital. Jamba, a 42-year-old mother of seven, consulted her Roman Catholic priest. He explained there was an outbreak of Marburg …