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The family of Bob Levinson, who disappeared from Iran seven years ago, has long known he worked for the CIA -- a fact they once feared disclosing, but now believe could be key to bringing him home.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A Pakistani police officer says a bomb rigged to a bicycle has hit a police patrol on its way to guard a polio vaccination team, killing six policemen and a boy.     

Edward Snowden Denies Being a Russian Spy

Ahmad Sharafeddin shot while travelling to reconciliation conference where president received one-year term extension.

"I wanted to have a little fun and raise money for a good cause, so I went to Gold's Gym in Venice in disguise," Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a YouTube post. A hilarious video shows the action star and former bodybuilde...

What is Carlos Henriquez waiting for?     

BEIJING (AP) -- Relatives of China's president and other business and political leaders are linked to companies in offshore tax havens that "helped shroud the communist elite's wealth," a U.S.-based journalism group said...

Scientists and tourists rescued from ship trapped in Antarctic ice finally arrive in Australia     

A leader of Thailand's pro-government "red shirt" movement was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday in the northeastern town of Udon Thani, in what police said appeared to be a politically motivated attac...

Wait a minute, it's a what? A whale plane?!

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A swirling storm clobbered parts of the mid-Atlantic and the urban Northeast on Tuesday, dumping nearly a foot and a half of snow, grounding thousands of flights, closing government offices in the na...

Violins, basses, banjos -- all made from ice. And they sound ethereal, says their creator.

Becky Anderson speaks to Ukrainian opposition leader Vitali Klitschko about their ongoing protests in Kiev.

Geneva 2 won't "solve" anything. Iran and Russia will keep supporting Damascus. The desert wasteland from Syria to Iraq will keep being occupied by Bandar Bush-supported and Gulf-supported hardcore sectarian jihadis. The...

A Justice Department investigation accuses Alabama officials of violating women's rights by fostering an environment of rampant sexual abuse at the state's Tutwiler Prison, where inmates "universally fear for their safet...

The warning by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew sets up the latest fiscal showdown earlier than Republican leaders anticipated.     

Why are some stories ---news--- and not others? Why will NJ governor Chris Christie's antics make the top of MSNBC news broadcasts for weeks to come, while the poisoning of 300,000 people by corporate greed and governmen...

As President Obama starts his sixth year in office, his job ratings remain near record lows and more voters think his policies have hurt rather than helped the economy.  And even as voters continue to hold mostly negati...

Serena Williams enters Indian Wells tournament; 1st time since vowing in 2002 to never return     

In Utah for trade show, interior secretary seeks donations for youth conservation corps     

Lawyers for a Mexican national scheduled to be put to death in Texas on Wednesday have asked the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution.

Brown lauds California comeback, warns of future shocks from drought, financial challenges