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OVER ALASKA (AP) -- Flying at 34,000 feet over the Bering Strait, the Russian pilots had a singular focus: making sure they smoothly received the hand-off of a "hijacked" jetliner from their U.S.-Canadian counterparts.

A U.S. special envoy is expected to fly to North Korea on Friday to try to secure the release of Kenneth Bae, an American citizen imprisoned there for carrying out "serious crimes" against Kim Jong Un's regime.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber attacked people leaving a memorial service at a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing his apparent target, a district chief, while leaving several others dead or wo...

Sombath Somphone was last seen at a police checkpoint in Vientiane eight months ago and now European lawmakers have accused the communist-run state of telling them "ridiculous lies" regarding his disappearance

From the moment that Simba gazed longingly into the dreamy eyes of Lil Bub, it was all over. Honestly, who could not fall in love with a published author, talk show host, and Internet celebrity like Bub? Now all we have ...

In D.C., 6-Day-Old Panda Is Growing Up Quickly

PHOENIX (AP) -- A 31-year-old father whose infant son died after being left in a parked car in the Phoenix summertime heat has been arrested because he was smoking marijuana at the time, police said.

Syria vows to confront any military aggression Iran warns attack will inflict serious damage in region Hagel: U.S. still seeking "international collaboration" U.S. source: UK "no" vote could spur unilateral action China ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday refused to toss out terrorism charges facing an Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Great Britain and said she'll decide during a trial next year whether government refere...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will officiate a same-sex wedding ceremony on Saturday between Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser and economist John Roberts.

Michael E. McLaughlin, the disgraced former head of the Chelsea Housing Authority, is seeking a reduction in his 3-year federal prison term for repeatedly lying about his income to government regulators.

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) -- Paraguay is being welcomed back into a group of South American nations known as UNASUR.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Three male Somerville High School soccer players attending a sports camp in western Massachusetts have been arrested on charges they sexually assaulted three younger campers.

SALEM, N.H. (AP) -- Police are searching for a woman who they say has shoplifted more than $100,000 of merchandise from malls in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A bank robbery suspect trying to elude police searching for him in an apartment building jumped into a garbage chute and survived a 200-foot fall into trash in the basement, police said Friday.

PARIS (AP) -- If France and the United States are ever going to move beyond French opposition to the Iraq War, this could be the time.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- An 18-year-old man was convicted of murder in the shooting of a baby who was riding in a stroller alongside his mom in a town in coastal Georgia despite the defense's attempt to cast guilt upon seve...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The oldest person born in Mexico, who also was California's oldest resident, has died in a hospice in Chula Vista, just 17 days after celebrating her 114th birthday.

HONOLULU (AP) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is launching a review of whether it should take North Pacific humpback whales off the endangered species list.

President George W. Bush misled the world on Iraq's WMD, but Bush's bogus case for war at least had details that could be checked, unlike what the Obama administration released Friday on Syria's alleged chemical attacks ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -- The New England Patriots released veteran tight ends Jake Ballard and Daniel Fells in the first batch of final cuts.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Maine has seen its share of unusual lobsters, including blue lobsters, orange lobsters, albino lobsters and calico lobsters. But one that's on display at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Po...