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New York authorities deal Russian mob losing hand

Molly Bloom exits Manhattan federal court Friday in New York. Nearly three dozen people were charged last week in what…

Iraqis go to polls for first time since United States’ pullout

The results will be a key measure of support for the country’s vying political coalitions and could boost the victors’…

Safety rules few for small plants

Leaking tanks start small fires at Texas company

Second Mass. bomb suspect captured

brother dead, one in serious condition after shootout, manhunt

Inauguration day rocky in Venezuela

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro will have to consolidate control of a country struggling with shortages of food and medicines; chronic…

Boy Scouts propose to lift gay ban for young people

The proposal, unveiled Friday after weeks of private leadership deliberations, will be submitted to the nearly 1,400 voting members of…

Photos help break bomb case

Pivotal decision was a gamble for law enforcement

Boston police: Bombing suspect is in custody

Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin Street where where the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was apprehended…

Pakistan’s Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest

The 69-year-old Musharraf jumped into a black SUV and escaped as a member of his security team hung to the…

How Chinese bird flu infects humans still mystery

The uncertainty adds to challenges the Chinese government is facing in trying to control the spread of the H7N9 bird…

Air search finds no trace of missing Okla. man

However, rancher Patty Jenkins saw no trace of Dustin Self, who was last heard from a month ago after being…

Double disaster: Man sees explosions in Boston, Texas

Marathon runner Joe Berti had just finished the Boston Marathon seconds before two bombs exploded at the finish line. Two…

NASA spies planets that seem ideal for life

This artist’s image shows the newly discovered planets named Kepler-62-e and Kepler-62-f. Scientists using NASA’s Kepler telescope found the two…

Scientists decode DNA of ‘living fossil’ fish

Breakthrough may provide insights into evolution

Spring storm delivers extremes

The massive system was wreaking havoc from the Rockies to the Rust Belt. Up to a foot of snow was…

Crews seek survivors after huge Texas blast

Fertilizer plant explosion wrecks homes, apartment building, school

Letters suspect called troubled

Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, was arrested Wednesday at his home in Corinth, Miss. He is accused of mailing letters poisoned…

Rescuers search ruins of Texas fertilizer plant

Mangled metal and crushed vehicles are all that remains at the blast site of the fertilizer company in West, Texas.…

Feds hunt bomb suspects; Obama offers reassurance

President Barack Obama attends an interfaith healing service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston for victims of…

Industry mutes Colo. Dems’ efforts to rein in drillers

Senator says state has more lobbyists than inspectors

FBI issues photos of 2 suspects in Boston Marathon bombing

This combination of images released by the FBI on Thursday shows who the FBI is calling Suspect 2, left, in…

Surveillance video shows bomb suspect in Boston

Investigators comb through the finish-line area of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street on Wednesday, two days after two bombs…

Defeat of background checks angers Obama

‘Pretty shameful day for Washington’ president says

Assad accuses West of backing al-Qaida in Syria

Bashar Assad also lashed out at Jordan for allowing “thousands” of fighters to enter Syria through its borders and warned…

Options narrow for Venezuelan opposition

Opposition activists and independent observers called the judge’s declaration blatant and legally unfounded favoritism from a purportedly independent body that…

Trespassing accusation leaves Sanford on his own

This is a side view of the home of Jenny Sanford taken Wednesday on Sullivan’s Island, S.C., where she says…

New Zealand is 13th country to legalize gay marriage

Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading Wednesday night. People…

Illinois House approves use of medical marijuana

The proposed legislation creates a four-year pilot program that requires patients and caregivers to undergo background checks, limits the amount…

Appeals court hears challenge to gay therapy ban

It’s the “pivot point” of the legal debate, Judge Morgan Christen of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said…