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The ripples from Japan's disaster are felt at multiple levels in the U.S.: from layoffs at a GE manufacturing plant and hearings by the NRC to a Richmond family that lost its daughter to the quake.
That figure puts it among the most costly natural disasters in modern history, and officials say it could take five years to rebuild a devastated Japan.
In New Delhi, the former Alaska governor said she is still thinking about running for president, voiced concerns about China's military rise, criticized green investment and vowed to see the Taj Mahal during her next trip.
A deadly U.S. airstrike Thursday in a northwest tribal village, along with the sudden release Wednesday of a U.S. intelligence contractor accused of murdering two Pakistanis, has raised tensions between the United States and Pakistan and brought new domestic criticism of Pakistan's security establis
TOKYO - Japanese officials took a series of early steps Friday to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control, but a week into the crisis, it was becoming apparent that they were confronting a problem that would not be resolved quickly.
President Obama opted not to cancel his long-planned trip in the wake of the earthquake in Japan.
The nuclear power plant crisis in Japan will probably take weeks to resolve, forcing Japanese workers to intensify their risky efforts to bring the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control, a top U.S. official said Thursday.
Those suffering in Japan expect their government to work. They can't understand why a country as affluent as theirs can't keep gasoline, the lifeblood of a modern economy, flowing and why towns across the northeast have been plunged into frigid darkness for five days.
Kevin Maher, who was removed from his State Department post for alleged comments he made about Okinawans, is now working 24 hours a day to coordinate U.S. assistance to Japan.
The crisis in Japan has put governments on the defensive and undermined the nuclear power industry's recent renaissance as the clean energy of the future.
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