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2012-05-30 01:33:07
Mitt Romney is entering a critical 90-day stretch to the Republican convention and unleashing a new offense to win over independent voters.
2012-05-30 00:23:06
Across the United States, the industry is under siege, threatened by new regulations from Washington.
2012-05-30 00:22:44
The son of Malcolm X's biographer is asking Syracuse University to hand over a letter from his father.
2012-05-30 00:22:33
The computers of high-ranking Iranian officials appear to have been penetrated by a data-mining virus called Flame.
2012-05-30 00:22:06
Eyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes.
2012-05-30 00:21:55
It was supposed to be a day of triumph for Mitt Romney, when he would at last formally claim the Republican presidential nomination.
2012-05-30 00:14:56
The two quakes struck one of the most productive regions in Italy at a particularly crucial moment.
2012-05-30 00:08:11
Russia is prepared to retaliate if the U.S. Congress passes the so-called Magnitsky bill.
2012-05-30 00:07:08
The U.S. military on Tuesday denied a report that it has been sending commandos into North Korea to spy on underground military facilities.
2012-05-30 00:06:04
Dallas police say it doesn't appear a 44-year-old man was armed when he holed up in the cab of a 150-foot crane for 14 hours.
2012-05-29 13:05:32
CAIRO -- The presidential campaign headquarters of Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister burst into flames Monday night as demonstrators march
2012-05-29 13:05:21
MANILA -- The chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, Renato C. Corona, was removed from office on Tuesday after it was disclosed dur
2012-05-29 13:05:10
WASHINGTON -- This was the enemy, served up in the latest chart from the intelligence agencies: 15 Qaeda suspects in Yemen with Western ties
2012-05-29 13:04:59
BANGKOK -- "We'll have to play it by ear, I guess," said Thani Thongphakdi, a spokesman for the Thai Foreign Ministry.
2012-05-29 13:04:48
ROME – Less than 10 days after an earthquake devastated the Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy, a 5.8-magnitude tremor shook the
2012-05-29 13:04:37
KABUL, Afghanistan -- American military officials said on Tuesday that two militants killed in eastern Kunar Province on Sunday were members
2012-05-29 13:04:25
BEIJING -- One of China's largest hosts of Twitter-like microblogs decreed new punishments on Monday for users who post comments that its ed
2012-05-29 13:04:11
COMBAT OUTPOST RAHMAN KHEL, Afghanistan -- Each week, Capt. Rachel Odom takes off in a helicopter to fly to yet another distant military out
2012-05-29 13:03:59
Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, made the first step on Monday toward ending his group's disputes with the Palestinian Autho
2012-05-29 13:03:48
JERUSALEM -- An Istanbul court approved indictments on Monday against four senior Israeli military figures for involvement in a deadly raid
2012-05-29 13:03:37
Russia's Investigative Committee charged three people Sunday and Monday with inciting unrest and attacking riot police officers during clash
2012-05-29 13:03:26
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico -- Every time Erica González put the video goggles on, the details of her four days in captivity came ru
2012-05-29 13:03:15
BEIJING -- A Beijing man has hanged himself to protest the government's refusal to account for his son's death in a military assault on the
2012-05-29 13:03:04
NEW YORK -- Those Americans embroiled in combustible debates over abortion, birth control, same-sex marriage and other social issues this el
2012-05-29 13:02:53
Every so often, a flash of Michelle Obama's humor comes through in her otherwise serious book about the White House garden and her campaign
2012-05-29 13:02:42
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama was still in the crib, just 5 months old, when American helicopters swooped out of Saigon into the jungle in Janu
2012-05-29 13:02:30
FORKS, Wash. -- The Olympic Peninsula has always felt more like the edge of the world than a mere national boundary.
2012-05-29 08:35:33
Education experts say a vexing new problem has emerged: A growing number of young people have a mountain of debt but no degree to show.
2012-05-29 00:21:32
"Hold on to that basalt," Lori Anne Madison said in a bossy 6-year-old's voice, "and do not drop it."
2012-05-29 00:21:10
The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler agreeing to cooperate with investigators.
2012-05-29 00:20:59
The Muslim Brotherhood is scrambling to broaden its appeal to liberals, leftists and Christians after official results Monday.
2012-05-29 00:15:39
Researchers have identified a sophisticated new computer virus 20 times the size of Stuxnet, software that disabled an Iranian centrifuge.
2012-05-29 00:14:09
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney commemorated Memorial Day on opposite coasts Monday.
2012-05-29 00:12:18
European stocks gave up most of their early gains on Monday, dragged down by worries about Spain that caused Madrid's benchmark to slide.
2012-05-29 00:11:16
The Rev. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons fire up their flocks to get registered and vote.
2012-05-28 13:06:14
KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal descended into a new crisis on Sunday after rival political parties in the Himalayan nation failed to reach an agre
2012-05-28 13:06:03
LONDON -- London's commuters have been warned to expect gridlock on the roads and paralysis on the subways. They have been advised to leave
2012-05-28 13:05:50
CAIRO -- Ahmed Shafik said he never regretted calling former President Hosni Mubarak "a role model."
2012-05-28 13:05:39
WASHINGTON -- When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Pakistan's president at the NATO summit meeting in Chicago last week, the t
2012-05-28 13:05:27
TEHRAN -- Iran's nuclear chief, reversing the country's previous statements, said on state television on Sunday that the country would not h
2012-05-28 13:05:16
SHANGHAI -- Wan Zhongni is a tall, lanky 16-year-old high school student who feels as though something is missing from his upbringing in Chi
2012-05-28 13:05:04
MOSCOW -- Opponents of the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, staged a sprawling political rally in the capital on Sunday in a stron
2012-05-28 13:04:53
BEIJING -- The older brother of Chen Guangcheng, the persecuted rights advocate who left China for the United States this month, is back in
2012-05-28 13:04:40
LONDON -- An antiwar protester broke into Britain's long-running judicial inquiry into press ethics through a supposedly secure corridor on
2012-05-28 13:04:29
TOKYO -- In an unusually stark warning, Japan's prime minister during last year's nuclear crisis told a parliamentary inquiry on Monday that
2012-05-28 13:04:06
BEIJING -- Two men set fire to themselves Sunday outside the holiest temple of Tibetan Buddhism in the center of Lhasa, the Tibetan capital,
2012-05-28 13:03:55
BERLIN -- It was exactly the kind of news that Chancellor Angela Merkel did not want.
2012-05-28 13:03:43
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- By the time President Obama took the stage at the Fox Theater here, he was in the 18th hour of a 19-hour day. His ti
2012-05-28 13:03:32
Beaches along the southern Atlantic coast were closed on Sunday, and visitors and residents in some low-lying regions were told to seek high
2012-05-28 13:03:21
WASHINGTON -- Judge John Gleeson hears cases where he used to prosecute them, in the federal courthouse in Brooklyn. There, in 1992, he led
2012-05-28 13:03:09
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- At 7:22:07 p.m. on a recent Thursday evening, an electronic alarm went off in the soundproofed control room of a su
2012-05-28 12:19:36
A formal ceremony in June will recognize 90 veterans from around the country at the annual In Memory event held in Washington, D.C.
2012-05-28 08:17:27
A fledgling effort by Maryland is urging chefs to behold the crabs in their Chesapeake Bay habitat and to buy the local product.
2012-05-28 00:55:32
America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate.
2012-05-28 00:47:09
A small but growing number of women-only shelters have opened up in recent years to cater to a rising number of female veterans.
2012-05-28 00:46:12
Democratic leaders across the country say they are largely united behind attacking Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private-equity firm.
2012-05-28 00:42:01
A plot to kill Americans had been uncovered, and officials at the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan were on the target list.
2012-05-28 00:41:10
Tropical Storm Beryl was wrecking some Memorial Day weekend plans on Sunday.
2012-05-28 00:40:02
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned Sunday that it would be "disastrous" for Congress to allow cuts in defense spending in January.
2012-05-28 00:33:17
The awkwardness of presidential politics was on full display Sunday morning as former rivals of Mitt Romney backed away from past critiques.
2012-05-28 00:33:15
The U.N. Security Council on Sunday blamed the Syrian government for most of the deaths in a massacre of 116 civilians in Houla.
2012-05-28 00:32:45
The former mayor of Mexico City is back for a second run, this time as the less confrontational Democratic Revolutionary Party candidate.
2012-05-28 00:30:25
President Hamid Karzai and NATO commanders ordered an investigation into reports that a family had been killed in a coalition airstrike.
2012-05-28 00:30:14
More than a decade after the struggle largely ceased, the Maoist Shining Path rebels' attempt to move into politics has stirred emotions.
2012-05-28 00:27:06
Three top candidates in Egypt's presidential race filed appeals to the election commission ahead of the deadline Sunday, alleging violations
2012-05-28 00:26:55
Iran's nuclear chief said on state television Sunday that the country would not halt its production of higher-grade uranium.
2012-05-27 16:52:12
Even as Ambassador Rooney has one foot firmly planted in Dublin, he has the other planted in Pittsburgh, de facto head of Steelers Nation.
2012-05-27 13:05:41
CAIRO -- Both candidates for Egypt's presidency have pledged to respect the country's peace treaty with Israel, but they differ greatly in t
2012-05-27 13:05:30
ROME -- After months out of the spotlight, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy made a rare public appearance on Friday to call
2012-05-27 13:05:18
MANILA -- The chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court, Renato C. Corona, testified in his impeachment trial Friday that he had $2.4 mi
2012-05-27 13:05:07
LIMA, Peru -- During a scorched earth military campaign that threatened to topple the government here, the Maoist guerrilla group known as t
2012-05-27 13:04:56
ZARAGOZA, Spain -- There was a time when Ivan Moreno, 34, felt he was on the verge of something big -- when it seemed right to settle his ra
2012-05-27 13:04:44
MILAN -- The pain of Europe's economic crisis is being felt sharply by a new class of people: separated and divorced men who end up impoveri
2012-05-27 13:04:33
BEIJING -- The policeman yanked the black hood over Ai Weiwei's head. It was suffocating. Written in white across the outside was a cryptic
2012-05-27 13:04:22
CAIRO -- The runoff to become Egypt's first freely elected president is shaping up as a contest between two of the most powerful and polariz
2012-05-27 13:04:11
WASHINGTON -- In a new effort to halt more than a year of bloodshed in Syria, President Obama will push for the departure of President Basha
2012-05-27 13:04:00
KABUL, Afghanistan -- For years, American officials have struggled to curb Afghanistan's opium industry, rewriting strategy every few season
2012-05-27 13:03:48
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Four coalition soldiers were killed in three roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan on Saturday night, NATO said Su
2012-05-27 13:03:37
MIDDLETON, Mass. -- As the lone Democrat seeking to challenge Elizabeth Warren in the Senate primary in Massachusetts, Marisa DeFranco has b
2012-05-27 13:03:26
DOHA, Qatar -- Ahmed Mohamed al-Hassan hit an educational glass ceiling. He needed a higher-education degree to move up the ladder at Aspire
2012-05-27 13:03:14
At the midway point, 2012 is looking like a better-than-average year for high-profile releases from Texas artists. We've already seen an arr
2012-05-27 13:03:01
As Ann Romney immersed herself in the elite world of riding over the last dozen years, she relied on Jan Ebeling as a trusted tutor and hors
2012-05-27 00:35:08
President Barack Obama will try to broker the departure of President Bashar Assad under a proposal modeled on Yemen.
2012-05-27 00:34:31
Protests in Myanmar over persistent power shortages have provided a test of how the country's government will respond.
2012-05-27 00:34:03
President Barack Obama faces new warning signs in a once-promising Southern state and in typically Democratic-voting Midwestern states.
2012-05-27 00:33:28
The president of Bankia tried Saturday to calm fears about the future of the bank.
2012-05-27 00:27:50
U.S. ICE has begun to increase of agents tasked with finding and deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records.
2012-05-27 00:25:19
The battle scars of the revolution that led to the end of Hosni Mubarak's regime continue to define the Egyptian landscape.
2012-05-27 00:12:18
Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie is lovely with green lawns and stately old trees. But Civil War veterans buried there were disappearing
2012-05-27 00:06:41
Iraq's president on Saturday urged the nation's bickering factions to resolve the bitter political dispute that has gripped government.
2012-05-27 00:06:19
Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.
2012-05-27 00:05:56
A multibillion-dollar federal initiative to move low-income elderly and disabled people from long-term care facilities has fallen short.
2012-05-26 13:05:44
BEIJING -- As an English-speaking talk show host on China Central Television, Yang Rui likes to think of himself as a bridge between East an
2012-05-26 13:05:33
LONDON -- Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday defended his handling of a contentious and ultimately doomed $12 billion bid by the media c
2012-05-26 13:05:22
CAIRO -- Faced with what he called an impossible choice -- between a conservative Islamist with a rigid social agenda and a former minister
2012-05-26 13:05:10
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syrian opposition organizations on Saturday accused government forces of carrying out a massacre in a village near Homs,
2012-05-26 13:04:59
TOKYO -- What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts befo
2012-05-26 13:04:48
Jurors in the corruption trial of John Edwards ended their sixth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict and will not come back to c
2012-05-26 13:04:37
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