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2012-05-18 00:22:39
Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York.
2012-05-18 00:22:28
Greece swore in 300 legislators Thursday for just one day before it dissolves Parliament and calls new elections.
2012-05-18 00:22:17
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- On the second day of the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic,
2012-05-18 00:13:50
The U.S. plans to give Israel the extra $70 million that Jerusalem asked for this year for short-range missile defense, officials said.
2012-05-18 00:12:44
Mitt Romney said Thursday that he rejected the proposal presented to a GOP super-PAC.
2012-05-18 00:12:22
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a sore sight last week for some of the button-downed financiers he was hoping to sell.
2012-05-18 00:11:47
The House rejected an amendment that would have ended combat operations in Afghanistan after more than a decade of war.
2012-05-18 00:06:39
Two senators on Thursday denounced Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin as a tax dodger for renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
2012-05-18 00:03:10
Top world leaders will gather today at Camp David as they confront renewed financial tensions in Europe.
2012-05-17 13:47:05
Army Spc. Leslie H. Sabo Jr. of Ellwood City was recognized for an act of wartime heroism that took his life at age 22.
2012-05-17 13:06:17
OTTAWA -- Police officers "ignored basic rights," jailed people illegally, used excessive force and escalated violence at protests surroundi
2012-05-17 13:06:05
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Throughout the drama this spring revolving around the dismissal of the ambitious Chinese official Bo Xilai and the i
2012-05-17 13:05:43
WASHINGTON -- After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a ma
2012-05-17 13:05:32
WASHINGTON -- A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the mo
2012-05-17 13:05:20
James Abdnor, a South Dakota Republican farmer who liked to say that he got off his tractor and went to Washington, where he served four ter
2012-05-17 13:05:09
WASHINGTON -- It says something about American politics that it has come to this: For the record, Bill Clinton does not actually support Mit
2012-05-17 00:40:00
John Edwards' team wrapped up their defense Wednesday without calling the ex-presidential candidate, his mistress or his daughter.
2012-05-17 00:39:38
Police found Estrella Carrera stabbed to death in her bathtub, still clad in the silver sequined cocktail dress she wore after her wedding.
2012-05-17 00:39:26
Russian police arrested about 20 protesters on Wednesday night at a central Moscow square where demonstrators had moved.
2012-05-17 00:39:13
Ratko Mladic confronted the accusations against him at the opening of his war crimes trial Wednesday with contemptuous gestures.
2012-05-17 00:38:59
A commando-style squad of Drug Enforcement Administration agents accompanied Honduran counternarcotics police during two firefights.
2012-05-17 00:38:49
With Greece's future in the euro increasingly in doubt, this troubled nation cobbled together an emergency government.
2012-05-16 15:12:44
Investors and federal investigators turned up the heat on JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday.
2012-05-16 15:02:31
The cost of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan is about to rise by $365 million annually under an agreement to reopen a key route.
2012-05-16 13:06:17
South Korea has received assurances from Myanmar that it will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, an aide to President Lee Myung-bak sai
2012-05-16 13:06:06
COMBAT OUTPOST SANGESAR, Afghanistan -- A burst of gunfire snapped First Sgt. Joseph Hissong awake. Then came another, and another, all with
2012-05-16 13:05:55
BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A convoy of unarmed United Nations monitors got caught up in a violent confrontation between protesters and Syrian govern
2012-05-16 13:05:44
BEIJING -- Ye Xiaogang, artistic director of the Beijing Modern Music Festival and one of China's leading contemporary composers, is a quick
2012-05-16 13:05:33
BOCA SANIBENI, Peru -- Along the murky waters of the Ene River, in a remote jungle valley on the verdant eastern slopes of the Andes, the rh
2012-05-16 13:05:22
MOSCOW -- The Russian authorities pressed their crackdown on antigovernment protesters on the streets, and in Parliament, on Wednesday as an
2012-05-16 13:05:11
BEIJING -- In a rare sign of open opposition against two of China's most powerful leaders, a group of retired Communist Party members have c
2012-05-16 13:05:00
PARIS -- Valérie Trierweiler faces an uncommon predicament.
2012-05-16 13:04:49
AYACUCHO, Peru -- At least two people were killed and dozens injured in a bomb attack on Tuesday in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, th
2012-05-16 13:04:39
THE HAGUE -- Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, went on trial here on Wednesday facing a catalog of charges of war cr
2012-05-16 13:04:28
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- American and Pakistani officials said Tuesday that a deal appeared imminent to reopen Afghan supply lines through Pak
2012-05-16 13:03:53
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has ordered Mayor Vincent C. Gray to answer questions about the firing of the city's top contracting officer,
2012-05-16 13:03:40
A Florida woman killed her four children at the family's home in Port St. John, Fla., on Tuesday before killing herself, the authoritie
2012-05-16 13:03:26
Virginia's Republican-controlled House rejected the judicial nomination of a gay Richmond prosecutor early Tuesday morning, plunging the cri
2012-05-16 13:03:13
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The defense in John Edwards's federal corruption trial rested on Wednesday morning without calling Mr. Edwards, his
2012-05-16 09:20:11
One of Rupert Murdoch's most trusted lieutenants and five people close to her were charged Tuesday with conspiring to hide evidence.
2012-05-16 00:26:42
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery waged a four-front assault Tuesday against al-Qaida militants' strongholds.
2012-05-16 00:23:39
The financially besieged European Union embarked on an uncertain path, with a new president in France and a call for new elections in Greece
2012-05-16 00:22:57
A Florida mother fatally shot her four children before killing herself Tuesday.
2012-05-16 00:22:34
The capital braced Tuesday for a replay of last summer's tense battle over the burgeoning national debt.
2012-05-16 00:21:38
Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors.
2012-05-16 00:14:24
European Union naval forces in attack helicopters on Tuesday conducted their first onshore raid on a suspected pirate lair in Somalia.
2012-05-15 14:40:28
In the years leading up to JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss, risk managers and some senior investment bankers raised concerns.
2012-05-15 13:05:57
PARIS -- It is a measure of the importance to France of the relationship with Germany that François Hollande, after taking office on
2012-05-15 13:05:47
BEIJING -- Despite a spectacular political scandal and swirling rumors of high-level infighting, signs are that China's once-in-a-decade lea
2012-05-15 13:05:36
TEHRAN -- As Iran starts a critical round of talks over its nuclear program, its negotiating team may be less interested in reaching a compr
2012-05-15 13:05:25
LONDON -- When Rachel revealed that her husband was happy for her to buy shoes with their joint credit card, two questions popped into my he
2012-05-15 13:05:14
LONDON -- Iran said on Tuesday that it had executed a man accused of being an Israeli intelligence agent responsible for the assassination o
2012-05-15 13:05:03
DAMASCUS, Syria -- For 48 hours, the two Damascus residents struggled to reach the besieged city of Homs by car, trying to deliver boxes of
2012-05-15 13:04:53
LONDON -- Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper empire and a close friend of Prime Minister David Cameron, f
2012-05-15 13:04:41
ROME -- Since 1983, when 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi vanished on a street here on her way home from a music lesson, investigators have stru
2012-05-15 13:04:29
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Behind the black door in downtown Kabul is a place unlike any other in this city, even in the whole country.
2012-05-15 13:04:19
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The European Union, which had vowed to take a tougher stand against the scourge of Somali piracy, took the fight to the pi
2012-05-15 13:03:55
PARIS -- In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was inaugurated Tu
2012-05-15 13:03:45
ATHENS -- Greek political leaders said Tuesday that they had failed to find consensus to form a government, pushing the rudderless country t
2012-05-15 13:03:33
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- In a setback for the defense, the judge in John Edwards's corruption trial on Monday barred the testimony of a former fe
2012-05-15 13:03:23
MIAMI -- Florida A&M University's celebrated band, the Marching 100, will remain on suspension until the university can put in place str
2012-05-15 13:03:12
After working 17 hours straight at a natural gas well in Ohio, Timothy Roth and three other crew members climbed into their company truck ar
2012-05-15 13:03:00
WASHINGTON -- There have been many hundreds of varied rulings in the lower courts on when the use of Taser stun guns by the police amounts t
2012-05-15 00:27:45
Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres.
2012-05-15 00:27:34
Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should reopen its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies.
2012-05-15 00:27:23
Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee says that public colleges and universities need to devise a new business model to pay for the costs.
2012-05-15 00:27:11
Nearly two dozen Syrian government soldiers were killed in clashes with the opposition over control of the rebel-held city of Rastan.
2012-05-15 00:22:29
Greece's deepening political crisis is fast turning into a war of wills in which Europe's economy potentially hangs in the balance.
2012-05-15 00:21:27
Rep. Ron Paul made clear that the last act of his presidential bid would be as unorthodox as all the rest of it.
2012-05-15 00:19:20
California's sputtering economic recovery is putting a heavier-than-expected drag on state tax revenue.
2012-05-15 00:17:34
Israeli and Palestinian officials announced that more than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners had agreed to end a nearly monthlong hunger strike.
2012-05-15 00:15:18
An Agni Air passenger plane carrying Indian and Danish tourists crashed into a hill near a mountain airport in Nepal on Monday.
2012-05-15 00:12:37
A U.S.-backed program to recruit police in rural Afghanistan has failed to significantly stem the insurgency.
2012-05-15 00:05:59
President Barack Obama urged young women Monday to strive for leadership positions and become politically involved.
2012-05-15 00:04:26
President Barack Obama's stand last week in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers' decisions on benefits.
2012-05-14 13:29:40
The great Russian writer first became famous for making wicked fun of Soviet foibles in the 1920s. He's still fresh as a daisy.
2012-05-14 13:06:49
Two decades ago, a woman having a difficult birth in a Ugandan village would have had few options to get life-saving treatment if there was
2012-05-14 13:06:37
MAE SAI, THAILAND -- The news coming out of Myanmar these days is of hope and reconciliation as the country moves from military dictatorship
2012-05-14 13:06:26
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Nine civilians were killed on Monday when a bomb exploded in a crowded bazaar in northern Afghanistan, Afghan official
2012-05-14 13:06:15
The success of Rwanda in providing health care to its poor has drawn the attention of the international community and has inspired a new pro
2012-05-14 13:06:04
MADRID -- Tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets during the weekend to protest austerity budget cuts and commemorate the anniver
2012-05-14 13:05:29
JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials said Monday that an Egyptian-brokered deal with Israel to end a hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinian
2012-05-14 13:05:18
BERLIN -- Chancellor Angela Merkel's party suffered a stinging defeat in elections in Germany's most populous state on Sunday, one likely to
2012-05-14 13:05:07
BEIJING -- Mongolia's previous president has spent more than a week on a hunger strike, protesting a detention that he says is aimed at prev
2012-05-14 13:04:55
KATMANDU, Nepal -- An Agni Air plane carrying Indian and Danish tourists crashed into a hill near a mountain airport in Nepal on Monday, kil
2012-05-14 13:04:44
BERLIN -- It is an enduring image of Angela Merkel: her cellphone held tightly in her hands, just above her lap, sending text messages at im
2012-05-14 13:04:33
President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, met with Yemen's president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, on Sunday, a day after a s
2012-05-14 13:04:21
MEXICO CITY -- Forty-nine mutilated bodies were found dumped along a highway on Sunday near Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city, accordin
2012-05-14 13:04:10
MOSCOW -- There were no opposition leaders at the head of the vast column of people that peacefully wound its way through central Moscow on
2012-05-14 13:03:59
LINYI, China -- China's central government says that the activist lawyer Chen Guangcheng is a free man, and has promised him an investigatio
2012-05-14 13:03:48
At the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs,
2012-05-14 13:03:37
WASHINGTON -- About two hours after declaring his support for same-sex marriage last week, President Obama gathered eight or so African-Amer
2012-05-14 13:03:25
At a black Pentecostal church in Raleigh, N.C., the Rev. Patrick Wooden entered the sanctuary on Sunday to a standing ovation, exulting that
2012-05-14 13:03:12
HAILEY, Idaho -- Off a gravel road in a horse pasture in the crystalline air of the Northern Rockies, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl grew up skiing, fen
2012-05-14 00:22:38
Talks to form a new Greek government appeared near collapse Sunday after the leader of a left-wing party refused to join a unity coalition
2012-05-14 00:22:24
Chancellor Angela Merkel's party suffered a stinging defeat in Germany's most populous state.
2012-05-14 00:21:22
A former Taliban leader-turned peace negotiator was assassinated Sunday by three unidentified gunmen in an attack in the Afghan capital.
2012-05-14 00:19:53
The endless task of funding U.S. state and local-government retirement plans will get even more daunting under proposed new accounting rules
2012-05-14 00:17:57
The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.
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