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A Missouri man has been charged with kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who authorities and hundreds of volunteers are still actively searching for.

Tank at crippled Japan nuclear plant leaks highly radioactive water; crews try to pump it out

Fed seems on track to slow bond buying by year's end but remains split on timing, minutes show

At least 18 killed, dozens injured when church bus, car plunge into river in western Indonesia

Severe Tropical Storm Trami heads for Taiwan after battering Philippines

Egypt arrests 2 more Islamist figures: Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, hard-line cleric

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As weapons inspectors arrive in the war-torn nation, an alleged poisonous gas attack has killed more than 200. Now the battle is about who caused it

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Smoke fills Paris sky after fire at 18th-century hotel construction site in tourist district

It's the first time that the two neighboring teams have gone head to head in more than 30 years

Japan is poised to declare a toxic water leak at the Fukushima nuclear plant a level 3 "serious incident," its gravest warning since the aftermath of the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami that sent three reactors into ...

BOSTON (AP) -- The Boston Celtics have filled out new coach Brad Stevens' staff.

BOSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld the corruption conviction and eight-year prison sentence of former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi.

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How hard is it to get hired in a slaughterhouse or on factory farm? Can you fog a mirror? Can you start this afternoon? There is not a long line to fill jobs whose descriptions are, "Remove dead animals from 98 degree am...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Costa Rican authorities say a security guard who fatally shot an American teenager after mistaking him for an intruder will get a new trial after winning an appeal.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's president is urging the country's children to get polio boosters after a rare appearance of the virus spread to the north of the country.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A shipment of Maine lobster products to New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan is getting served up in a soup kitchen.

BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) -- Police are investigating a fatal hammer attack on a 74-year-old Brockton man family members said was a minister on his way to visit his daughter.

The images showed lifeless children -- wrapped in simple white cloths, their pale faces unmarked by any wound -- lined up shoulder to shoulder in a vivid demonstration of an attack Wednesday in which activists say the Sy...