In Kabul, Obama highlights foreign policy record
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, addressing the nation from Kabul as Republicans said he's overdoing the celebration of Osama bin...
View ArticleFeds examine response to Montana sexual assaults
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the way Missoula police, prosecutors and the University of Montana have responded to reports of sexual assault and...
View ArticleObama: US emerging from 'dark cloud of war'
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is emerging from more than a decade under the "dark cloud of war," with the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ending and the war...
View ArticleOfficer shoots, wounds teen outside Texas school
PASADENA, Texas (AP) -- A police officer told investigators Tuesday that he shot a 14-year-old boy suspected in the overnight break-in of a Houston-area classroom after believing the teenager was...
View Article2 men held, questioned in Detroit escort slayings
DETROIT (AP) -- Two men were held for questioning Tuesday as part of an investigation into the slayings of four Detroit women whose bodies were found in car trunks after three of them placed online...
View ArticleSecret trip trickled out then the trickle stopped
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was the secret that bent but never quite fully broke....
View ArticleUS: blind activist in medical care, to see family
BEIJING (AP) -- A U.S. official says a blind Chinese legal activist who was at the center of a diplomatic tussle between Washington and Beijing has left the U.S. Embassy to receive medical care in...
View ArticleFla. police say man kills 2, injures daughter
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities are searching for a 55-year-old man they say killed his wife and the boyfriend of his pregnant daughter in Florida before threatening to attack officials at a...
View ArticleCalif. man forgotten in cell says he drank urine
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A San Diego college student who federal drug agents forgot and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet said Tuesday that he drank his own urine...
View ArticleMunch's 'The Scream' may fetch $80M at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the art world's most recognizable images - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - could sell for $80 million or more when it is auctioned at Sotheby's on Wednesday....
View ArticleUS claims father illegally moved kids to Gaza
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Authorities in the U.S. have accused a divorced Palestinian man of illegally moving his three children from their home in Kansas to his native Gaza earlier this year....
View ArticleOnly Canadian on death row in US seeks clemency
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The only Canadian on death row in the United States is asking the Montana Parole Board to instead let him live the rest of his life in prison....
View ArticleMay Day protests show weak immigration movement
ATLANTA (AP) -- While a black preacher told about 100 immigration protesters that incarcerated blacks and detained immigrants faced similar challenges, Jesse Morgan stood to one side of the May Day...
View ArticleRelative: NY police captain saved son from blaze
CARMEL, N.Y. (AP) -- A suburban New York police captain who died in a horrific house fire helped save his son and then ran back inside to try to rescue his wife and two teenage daughters before they...
View ArticleA look at how Congress has dealt with immigration
A look at how Congress has dealt with immigration in the past 25 years:...
View Article100,000 Facebook users use new organ donor option
ATLANTA (AP) -- An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors....
View ArticleDetroit unions weigh strike option as layoffs loom
DETROIT (AP) -- Unions angry that Detroit is trying to mend its financially-battered books by laying off hundreds of workers and imposing steep contract concessions on those who remain are considering...
View ArticleMo. lawmaker says he is gay, denounces school bill
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Republican Missouri House member has publicly announced he's gay and is calling on GOP leaders to end legislation that would limit discussion of sexual orientation in...
View Article15 million of world's babies are born prematurely
WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 15 million premature babies are born every year - more than 1 in 10 of the world's births and a bigger problem than previously believed, according to the first...
View ArticleBronzed NJ mom: 5-year-old's burns not from salon
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A woman whose own skin is deeply bronze-colored from regular visits to a tanning salon has been accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state...
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