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Trial starting for Fort Hood bomb plot suspect
Police officers suddenly rushed the young man wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a baseball cap as he walked out of a motel toward an idling cab near a ...
Dominican election in dispute after apparent win
A governing party official appeared to have scored a first-round win in the Dominican Republic's presidential election but supporters of his main ...
Tropical Storm Alberto hovers off US coast
Tropical Storm Alberto hovered off the South Carolina and Georgia coasts on Sunday, canceling tourist cruises, producing showers along the coast and ...
Some NATO protesters clash with Chicago police
A group of demonstrators are clashing with Chicago police at the end of a NATO summit protest march, pushing against a line of officers who are trying ...
Obama pushes for post-2014 vision for Afghanistan
President Barack Obama says the NATO alliance agrees on a vision for post-2014 Afghanistan and is pressing world leaders to implement that strategy ...
Lockerbie families relieved at death of man blamed
Families of Pan Am Flight 103 passengers who died when the plane exploded over Scotland more than two decades ago say they're relieved that the Libyan ...
Mary Kennedy is mourned at private funeral in US
Family and friends gathered Saturday at a modest stone church in a hamlet north of New York City for the funeral of Mary Richardson Kennedy, the ...
Men accused of plotting attacks around NATO summit
Three activists who travelled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to attack President ...
Michelle Obama hosts G-8 spouses at White House
While President Barack Obama hosted world leaders Saturday for high-level economic talks at Camp David, Michelle Obama engaged in some soft diplomacy ...
Loretta Lynn married at 15, not 13
Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being ...
Camp David in the international spotlight with G-8
Isolated and heavily guarded, the mountaintop retreat is known simply as Camp David, but its wooded grounds have been a place of triumph and failure, ...
Obama touts $3B in pledges to help feed Africa
President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite ...
Race briefly becomes issue in US campaign
Race briefly became an issue Thursday in the race to challenge Barack Obama after a supporter of Republican challenger Mitt Romney was reported to be ...
US gov't sets stiff tariffs on China solar panels
The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly ...
For Chicago, NATO summit brings commuter headaches
As President Barack Obama and 50 heads of state arrive for a NATO summit, parts of Chicago are all but shutting down — the result of dire warnings ...
Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right
Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it arguably the most far-right party to enter a European ...
Obama requesting help to pay for Afghan army
Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country after 130,000 ...
Rodin Museum in Philadelphia to reopen in July
The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is getting ready to reopen after three years of renovations. The museum is home to the largest collection of ...
FBI confirms leak probe on al-Qaida plot
FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday the bureau has started an investigation into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot to place an ...
Panel calls for steep cuts in US nukes
An influential panel is calling for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons and an elimination of all nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic ...
Obama kids Becham about his age, underwear line
President Barack Obama is ribbing soccer star David Beckham about his age and his outside interests, saying it is a "rare man who can be that tough ...
First lady has plan to get kids involved in sports
Michelle Obama remembers sitting in front of her television many years ago and watching Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Carl Lewis as they ...
Teen arrested after homework left at crime scene
An 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of burglary after police say he left his homework at the crime scene. Police in Orem, Utah, say they ...
US men's basketball squad deadline now July 7
USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo considers about 10 men's Olympic team spots set "on paper," with the rest to be determined over two days of ...
Derby runner-up Bodemeister heading to Preakness
Bodemeister is headed to the Preakness to challenge I'll Have Another after their memorable finish in the Kentucky Derby. Bodemeister set a blistering ...