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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 00:26:09
Investors and federal investigators turned up the heat on JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday.
2012-05-16 00:25:58
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 00:23:39
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 00:17:19
The cost of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan is about to rise by $365 million annually under an agreement.
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.
2012-05-14 00:16:40
Syrian forces killed at least five people when they raided a Sunni farming village on Sunday, torching homes and looting shops.
2012-05-14 00:15:29
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson left the company four months into the job Sunday after more than a week of scrutiny into inaccuracies on his resume
2012-05-14 00:13:41
Three high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase are expected to leave their jobs this week after a trading blunder cost the bank $2 billion.
2012-05-14 00:13:10
Obama's and Romney's allies and adversaries in Congress are pursuing agendas that do not always make things easy on the campaign trail.
2012-05-14 00:12:47
A new study indicates that even benign, kid-friendly items are the cause of numerous childhood injuries, mostly when children fall.
2012-05-14 00:10:24
A team of astronomers reports that they have unexpectedly detected a hidden planet -- and probably two.
2012-05-14 00:09:17
The Irish could be next to give the European Union's austerity plans a black eye, after Greece and France.
2012-05-13 13:05:01
LONDON -- "It looked like one of those things where you get free pizzas through the post," Hilal Bozkurt said, describing the innocuous-look
2012-05-13 13:04:50
COLIMA, Mexico -- After her son Alfredo was killed last year at his auto parts shop, Carmen Plascencia de Carrillo noticed that two half sis
2012-05-13 13:04:39
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian Authority officials said Saturday that they had arrested the man they believed was responsible for the Ma
2012-05-13 13:04:28
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said Saturday that his security forces were struggling because I
2012-05-13 13:04:16
SHIRBEEN, Egypt -- At a recent campaign rally here, Ala'a Zinhom said he had no interest in voting for Amr Moussa, a former Egyptian foreign
2012-05-13 13:04:05
Horst Faas, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer who later was editor of the Associated Press staff in Saigon that produced th
2012-05-13 13:03:54
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day after an assailant wearing an Afghan Army uniform killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan, two insurge
2012-05-13 13:03:43
BAGHDAD -- In the face of spiraling costs and Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place, the State Department has slas
2012-05-13 13:03:32
ATHENS -- Talks to form a new Greek government collapsed on Sunday, when the leader of a left-wing party that favors rejecting Greece's loan
2012-05-13 13:03:20
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Mullah Arsala Rahmani, a former Taliban minister who was an important go-between in potential peace talks, was shot an
2012-05-13 13:03:09
LOS ANGELES -- The state budget shortfall in California has increased dramatically in the last six months, forcing state officials to assemb
2012-05-13 13:02:57
Want to guarantee a campaign throwdown? Toss 2 major American cities, 2 large minority populations and 15 candidates into one newly drawn Co
2012-05-13 13:02:46
MIDLAND, Tex. -- When the Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng stole the show at an emergency Congressional hearing this month by calling into t
2012-05-13 13:02:35
WASHINGTON -- The primary victory of a Tea Party-blessed candidate in Indiana illustrates how closely Republican hopes for a majority in the
2012-05-13 00:31:52
The State Department has slashed a multibillion-dollar police training program that was to have been the centerpiece of a civilian mission.
2012-05-13 00:31:41
Barack Obama's media team has prepared an aggressive strategy to portray Mitt Romney as insensitive to the plight of working people.
2012-05-13 00:31:18
With more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding in this country, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts or grad students.
2012-05-13 00:31:05
Many people in Haiti look at the past year under a musician-turned-president with guarded surprise.
2012-05-13 00:30:54
France and Greece's elections reflect the anger and disillusionment surfacing across Europe as an entire way of life is challenged.
2012-05-13 00:30:40
Buildings have been selected as a possible front line against terrorist attacks during the Olympics.
2012-05-13 00:26:59
California's budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion.
2012-05-13 00:08:49
Anti-colonial revolutions, communist takeovers and other conflicts have come and gone in Southeast Asia. But one has outlasted them all.
2012-05-13 00:07:57
The increasingly bloody tumult in Syrian cities is sending forceful ripples through mountain villages on the Israeli side.
2012-05-13 00:07:35
Greece's president will meet with political party leaders today in a last-ditch effort to broker a deal for a coalition government.
2012-05-13 00:05:22
Mitt Romney told a polite audience Saturday at Liberty University that he shares and deeply respects their values.
2012-05-12 13:05:45
ATHENS -- The collapse of Greece's dominant parties in Sunday's elections swept a new political force onto the scene here: the Coalition of
2012-05-12 13:05:34
MANILA -- With the 1970s pop song "Kung Fu Fighting" playing in the background, several hundred people gathered in front of a Chinese consul
2012-05-12 13:05:23
Security forces in Aleppo killed a suicide bomber driving a stolen minibus crammed with five large canisters of explosives before he could d
2012-05-12 13:05:12
The lead negotiator for the six-nation group bargaining with Iran over its contentious uranium enrichment program said Friday that she hoped
2012-05-12 13:05:01
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The traders crouched beneath the walls of an old fort, hunkered down with the sheep and goats as they talked, eyes ner
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