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Hollywood responds to deadly Conn. school shooting
Hollywood has responded to the rampage at a Connecticut elementary school by pulling back on its offerings, and one star says the entertainment ...
Experts: No link between Asperger's, violence
While an official has said that the 20-year-old gunman in the Connecticut school shooting had Asperger's syndrome, experts say there is no connection ...
Routine morning, then shots and unthinkable terror
Inside the four-bedroom colonial set on a small rise, Nancy Lanza was already dead. But it was early yet, and it would be hours before her body was ...
Athletes shaken by Connecticut shooting
When the Miami Heat players and coaches showed up for work Saturday morning, basketball was secondary. Newtown was the focus. Friday's massacre at an ...
How to talk to your kids about Conn. mass shooting
The killings at a Connecticut elementary school left parents struggling to figure out what to tell their children. President Barack Obama said he and ...
As Conn. story unfolds, media struggle with facts
The scope and senselessness of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting challenged journalists' ability to do much more than lend, or impose, their ...
Okla. teen arrested in school shooting plot
Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high ...
Egyptians take quarrel over charter to the polls
Egyptians took their quarrel over a draft constitution to polling stations Saturday after weeks of violent turmoil between the newly empowered ...
Israeli election downplays Palestinian issue
Peacemaking with the Palestinians, once the main issue by far in Israeli politics, has been strikingly absent from the campaign for next month's ...
President's pot comments prompt call for policy
President Barack Obama says he won't go after pot users in Colorado and Washington, two states that just legalized the drug for recreational use.
Kids play Mozart with violins made from garbage
The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl ...
Lack of food stunts Chad children, damages minds
One morning, a little girl called Achta sat in the front row of this village's only school and struggled mightily with the assignment her teacher had ...
Militants attack airport in NW Pakistan; 9 killed
Suicide bombers armed with rockets attacked the military side of a Pakistani airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar Saturday, killing four ...
No rise in mass killings, but their impact is huge
A gold plaque hangs next to a bullet hole in the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., where a lone gunman killed six worshippers and injured three others ...
Could shooting be a gun-control tipping point?
The question surfaces each time a mass murder unfolds: Will this one change the political calculus in Washington against tougher gun control? The ...
United Continental pilots OK joint union contract
United Airlines pilots have agreed to a new joint union contract, bringing the airline closer to finalizing its merger with Continental. The new ...
Sympathy over US school shooting stretches globe
As the world joined Americans in mourning the school massacre in Connecticut, many urged U.S. politicians to honor the 28 victims, especially the ...
A guide to what is next for Egypt
Questions and answers about the ongoing political crisis in Egypt, and what may lie ahead if the referendum on the draft constitution is passed or ...
Many single women, a key bloc, are avoiding GOP
Sara Stevenson spends her working hours surrounded by Republicans, namely the married men who work alongside her in a Denver oil and gas firm company.
Correction: Conn School Shooting-Suspect story
In some versions of a story Dec. 14 and 15 about the suspect in a school shooting in Connecticut, The Associated Press erroneously reported a comment ...
Obama grieves: American hearts 'heavy with hurt'
Addressing a stunned nation, President Barack Obama on Saturday grieved for the children and teachers massacred in Newtown, Conn., declaring that ...
Conn. gunman recalled as intelligent but remote
Family and friends remember Adam Lanza as many things — intelligent, nerdy, goth, remote, thin. Now the world will always remember him as a mass ...
Schools and students are targets worldwide
A half-day before a young gunman committed one of the deadliest school attacks in U.S. history, a Chinese farmer took a kitchen knife and hacked at ...
SAfrica's ANC party to choose leader amid turmoil
South Africa's governing African National Congress political party will return to where it was first formed to fight apartheid a century ago to pick ...
NHL files unfair labor charge against union
The NHL and its locked-out players might turn up in a courtroom before they find their way back onto the ice. In a wild week in which the fighting ...