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WASHINGTON – Former disaster agency chief Michael Brown is indicating he is ready to reveal his correspondence with President Bush and other officials during Hurricane Katrina unless the White House forbids it and offers legal support. Brown’s stance, in a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, follows senators’ complaints …

WASHINGTON – Sales of new U.S. homes rose a much larger-than-expected 13.8 percent in March, the biggest one-month gain since April 1993, but prices fell sharply, a government report showed Wednesday. The pace of new home sales rose to a seasonally adjusted 1.213 million unit annual rate from a downwardly …

NEW YORK – Transit union leader Roger Toussaint said he’d march across the Brooklyn Bridge with workers before turning himself in Monday for a 10-day jail sentence stemming from the illegal three-day subway and bus strike that crippled the city in December. Labor leaders and unionized workers were expected to …