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Fearing abuse, FDA blocks generic OxyContin
Federal health regulators will require generic versions of the best-selling painkiller OxyContin to include recent formulation changes designed to ...
Report: US resorted to torture after 9/11 terror
An independent review of the U.S. government's anti-terrorism response after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reported Tuesday that it is "indisputable" ...
High court wrestles with Indian adoption dispute
The Supreme Court is trying to sort out a wrenching adoption case involving a Native American child, a biological father who first renounced any ...
Judge denies Gitmo detainee's bid for relief
A federal judge Monday denied an emergency motion for relief filed by a Guantanamo Bay prisoner on a hunger strike, despite pleas from the man's ...
Correction: Church Abuse-Religious Order story
In an April 14 story about confidential personnel files on Roman Catholic religious order priests, The Associated Press reported erroneously that such ...
Legal pot draws tourists to Colo., Wash., for 4/20
Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, ...
In New Orleans, political brawl over police, jail
A political brawl has broken out between the mayor and a sheriff who runs the city jail, which has come under scrutiny for a video showing inmates ...
Canada police reopen investigation of alleged rape
Authorities are reopening the case of a teen who hanged herself after she was allegedly raped and bullied for months, the Royal Canadian Mounted ...
Package sent to Arpaio could have injured, killed
Arizona authorities say a package addressed to Sheriff Joe Arpaio discovered in a northern Arizona mailbox would have exploded if opened, leading to ...
Colo. teen pleads not guilty in girl's slaying
A Colorado teen pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and kidnapping in the kidnap-slaying and dismemberment of a 10-year-old girl that panicked ...
French Senate passes gay marriage bill
The French Senate voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage in France, putting a landmark bill on track to become law by summer. The vote in the ...
Correction: Israel-Palestinians story
In an April 11 story about a Palestinian-American teenager held in an Israeli jail, The Associated Press misidentified one of the interviewees.
Outside Caracas, Chavismo's unfulfilled promises
It's just after nightfall and the power is out again in untold hundreds of thousands — probably millions — of Venezuelan homes. If the government ...
Judges deny Calif. bid to end prison oversight
A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other ...
Canada minister to oversee probe to teen's suicide
Canada is looking further into the case of a teenage girl who hanged herself after an alleged rape and months of bullying, after a photo said to be ...
Couple jailed for fleeing with kids to face judge
The Florida parents charged with kidnapping their boys from their grandparents and sailing to Cuba on a boat called "Salty" to elude authorities were ...
Malawian government harshly criticizes Madonna
Malawi issued a scathing critique of pop diva Madonna on Wednesday, accusing her of exaggerating her contributions to the southern African country and ...
MLB forms diversity committee, black players focus
Major League Baseball has created a task force that will study how to increase diversity in the game, especially among black players. Commissioner Bud ...
Survivor of '63 Ala. church bombing seeks funds
The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and ...
An agency-by-agency guide to Obama's 2014 budget
President Barack Obama has proposed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2014 that aims to slash the deficit by a net $600 billion over 10 years, raise ...
First lady wades into debate over gun violence
First lady Michelle Obama made a deeply personal entrance into the gun debate Wednesday, the eve of a showdown in Congress, by comparing herself to ...
3 convicted in Ohio prison riot plan hunger strike
Three of five Ohio inmates sentenced to death for an historic prison riot plan a hunger strike starting on the uprising's 20th anniversary Thursday ...
Blacks still face challenges in economic equality
African-Americans have achieved tremendous gains in education over the past 50 years, but that has yet to translate into major progress toward ...
Employers eager for new foreign worker program
As desperate as unemployed Americans are to find work, there are still some jobs that many would never consider applying for because they are seen as ...