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BRUSSELS (AP) -- European lawmakers are trying to tighten rules governing the multi-billion dollar tobacco market by imposing bigger and bolder warnings on cigarette packs, banning most flavorings like menthol and beefin...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Doctors prepared to drill into President Cristina Fernandez's skull Tuesday morning to siphon out blood that is pressuring her brain two months after she suffered an unexplained head injur...

TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese court has ordered a group of anti-Korean activists to pay a Korean school in Kyoto 12 million yen ($120,000) in compensation for disturbing classes and scaring students by shouting "kimchi stinks...

NAIROBI -- American interrogators headed to an American warship in the Mediterranean to question a suspected Libyan Al Qaeda operative linked to the bombings of US embassies in Africa, as new details emerged Monday about...

US president calls on Congress to pass legislation that would end shutdown that has stalled government services.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, repeatedly requested a lawyer when he was being questioned at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center following his arrest in Watertown, according to court documents fi...

Police ID NJ man who set himself on fire on National Mall; no word on why he did it     

It enters circulation Tuesday

The NSA's huge Utah data center is supposed to help U.S. intelligence collect billions of bytes of intelligence when it opens this fall.     

His omissions tells us more than the accusations

WASHINGTON -- The conservatives who have helped propel the first federal shutdown in 17 years have argued that they are fighting for smaller and less bloated government. But a vote over the weekend to grant back-pay to f...

A few faint glimmers of hope surfaced on Monday in the U.S. fiscal standoff, both in Congress and at the White House. An influential GOP senator was floating a plan to cut federal spending and reform the U.S. tax code as...

The first Senate vote on raising the debt ceiling could come as early as Friday, but there have been no bipartisan meetings on ending the partial government shutdown.     

Today was the 12th anniversary of the U.S. invasion  Afghanistan. Very few people noticed.     

SANDOWN, N.H. (AP) -- Officials at a New Hampshire elementary school are hoping for colder weather, so students can go outside.     

Archie Comics veers into horror with 'Afterlife' and new territory for publisher's famed teens     

Officials working to fix continued issues on site

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- A fugitive priest who was convicted of sexually abusing a child in the Dominican Republic has been detained during an unrelated probe.     

President Obama has made many promises about his signature health care plan, but one of the simplest was an assurance that it would lower national health care spending and save every family thousands of dollars -- but go...

ARMONK, N.Y. (AP) -- A suburban New York judge says jury selection in a drugged-driving case involving the late Robert F. Kennedy's daughter Kerry Kennedy will begin early next year.     

Making war against nation states and their people no longer works. Unstable and undemocratic countries are usually controlled by individuals and cabals against whom military force ends up harming their own domestic victi...