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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. did not specify the guilty pleas the Justice Department would expect before it would open talks with Mr. Snowden's lawyers.     

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- One of three heroin overdose victims rushed to the hospital in the span of 24 hours has died, according to Portsmouth police, and law enforcement officials say heroin use statewide is growing at ...

Hong Kong says it will destroy most of its huge stockpile of contraband ivory in a move hailed by conservationists as a significant step in combating the illegal trade in elephant tusks.

Xiao Meili is attempting the 2,000-km walk from Beijing to Guangzhou to raise awareness of sexual abuse

'Hot Bench,' new TV court show created by Judge Judy, set for fall syndication debut     

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- At least 48 Muslims were killed when Buddhist mobs attacked a village in an isolated corner of western Myanmar earlier this month, the United Nations said Thursday, calling on the government to ca...

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a review of the military's nuclear force after reports of cheating and low morale among Air Force nuclear launch officers.     

The 2016 election is still almost three years away, but, already, it can’t be avoided. Time magazine, in its cover story this week, asked, “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” And now comes the Times with two more cover stor...

Kizza Besigye arrested outside his home in the capital Kampala after a confrontation with police.

If you're over 55 years old, Medicaid can come after your home and assets when you die to pay for your medical expenses.     

Indian Supreme Court orders investigation into gang rape order     

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- A junior at Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington has won Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' annual State of the Union essay-writing contest.     

A disbarred New York attorney will spend up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing more than $4 million from clients and banks. James Kalpakis of Old...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A second woman was arrested Friday in the killing a woman who was beaten to death outside of an Orange County nightclub.     

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said Friday that a Republican Party that ignores the nation's Hispanics and balks at immigration overhaul does so at its political peril as Republicans pressured th...

With today's news that Sharon Stone is going to play the Vice President of the U.S. in TNT's pilot Agent X, there are some truths about what it takes to play a fictional female Veep. It starts at the name.     

BOSTON (AP) -- State Rep. Carlos Henriquez, who is serving six months in jail for assaulting a former girlfriend, was brought to the Statehouse in handcuffs to meet behind closed doors with his colleagues in a highly unu...

The top Republican on the Senate environment committee said Thursday that newly released transcripts showing an ex-EPA official discussing his widespread fraud against the government -- as well as a pet "project" to "mod...

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) -- The health system that includes Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital is pursuing an affiliation agreement with Dartmouth-Hitchcock.     

The court ordered the group, the Little Sisters of the Poor, to inform the Department of Health and Human Services in writing that they will not comply with the requirement under the health care law that employers must o...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Income inequality is out, "ladders of opportunity" is in.     

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Police in Portsmouth, N.H. say the 37-year-old man who died of a heroin overdose had no permanent address at the time of his death.