   |    |      |   |         | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales rose solidly in March  as Americans shrugged off high gasoline prices and bought a  range of goods, implying that economic growth in the first quarter  was probably not as weak as many had feared. |          |    |                      |    |      |   |         | OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Clean-up efforts were underway across  the Midwest on Sunday after dozens of tornadoes ripped across  the region, killing five people in one Oklahoma town, three  of them young girls, after storm sirens failed to sound and  houses were reduced to rubble. |          |    |            |                    |    |      |   |         | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in a better position  to deal with high gasoline prices, Treasury Secretary Timothy  Geithner said on Sunday, adding that unseasonably warm winter  had lowered overall energy costs for consumers. |          |    |            |                    |    |      |   |         | CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) - Unprecedented Latin American  opposition to U.S. sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama  isolated at a summit on Sunday and illustrated Washington's  declining influence in a region being aggressively courted by  China. |          |    |            |                   |    |      |   |         | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former baseball pitching ace Roger Clemens  faces a new trial this week on charges he lied to Congress about  taking steroids, nine months after a judge stopped his first  trial in its opening days because of a misstep by prosecutors. |          |    |            |                   |    |      |   |         | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election  campaign and Democratic groups affiliated with it raised more  than $53 million in March, showing a jump in fundraising over  the previous month as the general election gets under way. |          |    |            |                   |    |      |   |         | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rescuers halted a search on Sunday  for four sailors swept overboard after powerful waves battered  their boat during a yacht race, tossing it into rocks around  islands off San Francisco, officials said. |          |    |            |               |    |      |   |         | (Reuters) - Standing before a crowd of McDonald's Corp shareholders  at its headquarters last spring, an unlikely investor prepared  for battle. |          |    |                                 |   |         | (Reuters) - Aircraft parts maker Spirit AeroSystems Holdings  Inc suspended operations at its Wichita, Kansas facility until  Tuesday after severe weather damaged the infrastructure there. |          |    |            |                                           |    |      |   |         | ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - One of Patrick Flanagan's favorite movies  as a kid was "Night of the Living Dead," a 1968 horror film  about a family trapped in a rural Pennsylvania house and attacked  by zombies. |          |    |            |              |                |                      |                  |                                      | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today |        |              |               |          |                     |               |                                      | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today |        |              |               |        |           | » MORE NEWSLETTERS |         |    
 
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