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J'Nay Bailey protected two little girls when shots rang out

(Reuters) - A series of tornadoes, some about a mile across, swept through the U.S. Midwest on Friday, causing a number of injuries and significant damage to homes and businesses, officials said.

Relations with Europe, Brazil remain tense

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Syria's government has raised the price of gasoline, a step likely to increase hardship for many Syrians already suffering from the economic consequences of civil war.     

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Foreigners arrived in boats and launched an assault on a coastal base, killing one rebel, al-Shabab says.

Two bikers allegedly linked to the clash between bikers and an SUV driver have turned themselves in to police, a New York police spokesman said Saturday.

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(Reuters) - A rare and fierce October snowstorm rolled out over the central Rocky Mountains on Friday, stranding motorists, downing trees and forcing closures of hundreds of miles of Interstate 90 across parts of Wyoming...

Pope Francis walking in the footsteps of his favorite saint, is leading the change, Ben Wedeman reports.

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Though they never found the body of Raquel Calderin, prosecutors believe they have the evidence to convict her estranged husband

Mr. Wallace died of cancer three days after he was freed by a federal judge who ruled that his original indictment in the killing of a prison guard had been unconstitutional.     

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Kyle Wilcox ran 20 yards for the game-winning touchdown in the fourth overtime as Penn topped Dartmouth 37-31 Saturday in the longest football game in Ivy League history.     

In September, the National Review Online made public the blueprint of the House GOPs war plan to stonewall the debt ceiling raise. The plan of attack included many of the same demands the GOP has repeatedly made to stall...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Saturday that "most [Department of Defense] civilians placed on emergency furlough during the government shutdown will be asked to return to work beginning next week."

A real government shutdown would effectively take us back to a state of nature, or at least to an eighteenth century, pre-constitutional governmental structure, enhanced by all the modern conveniences we could keep worki...

Refugees are quickly developing ties to their surrounding areas, increasing fears that they will stay and redraw the demographic map.     

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BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine is asking Biddeford public school officials to apologize after they allowed what the ACLU says were "overtly religious presentations" that violated the...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A plane carrying five Americans and a Panamanian on an anti-drug mission crashed Saturday in a remote part of northern Colombia, killing four of the occupants and seriously injuring the other two...

Gunmen attacked a Libyan military post southeast of the capital, Tripoli, on Saturday, an official and Libya's state news agency said.