WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that he was uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of the most dangerous terror suspects being held now at Guantanamo Bay. He called it "one of the biggest challenges of my admin ... full story
An American soldier is feared captured by insurgents after he walked off his base in eastern Afghanistan without his body armor and weapon, officials said Thursday.The military has intercepted communications in which insurgents talked about holding a ... full story
WASHINGTON -- The coup that deposed a U.S. ally in Honduras exposed the small leverage that even millions of dollars in aid and longtime military cooperation will buy.Washington has few direct means to pressure those who packed President Manuel Zelay ... full story
Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep.On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a study published i ... full story
SAN DIEGO -- Herbert G. Klein, who was Richard Nixon's White House director of communications and an editor for Copley Newspapers, has died. He was 91.Klein died Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in the San Diego suburb of La Joll ... full story
LOS ANGELES -- A plan to bury Michael Jackson at his sprawling Neverland ranch fizzled Wednesday, leaving details about his funeral undecided as another mystery was solved: His newly unveiled will says his mother -- or failing her, Diana Ross -- shou ... full story
LOS ANGELES -- The circumstances surrounding Michael Jackson's death have become a federal issue, with the Drug Enforcement Administration asked to help police take a look at the pop star's doctors and possible drug use.Following Jackson's death, all ... full story
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on a key Senate committee Wednesday night outlined a revised and far less costly health care plan that includes a government-run insurance option and an annual fee on employers who do not offer coverage to their workers.The pl ... full story
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Now that Al Franken is headed for the U.S. Senate, which Franken will show up in Washington?Will it be the passionate, sometimes angry liberal who hurled playground insults at Rush Limbaugh as an author and radio host? Or will it ... full story
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- South Carolina residents -- and the simply curious around the world -- have watched Gov. Mark Sanford's lovelorn saga unfold, the central character spewing an odd script that would seem more appropriate for a soap opera than state ... full story
CANTON, Ohio -- The police chief of a northeast Ohio township has retired after a video became public showing him and a female officer kissing and caressing in the front of a police cruiser while a prisoner was in the back seat.Timothy Escola retired ... full story
LOS ANGELES -- A Missouri mother faces up to three years in prison at her sentencing Thursday in Los Angeles for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself.Lori Drew was convicted in November on three ... full story
ROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi is steeped in a new scandal over a dinner he had at the home of a constitutional court judge who will rule on whether to grant him immunity from prosecution while in office.
Opposition lawmakers have called for th ... full story
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Former world boxing great and Managua Mayor Alexis Arguello was found dead at his home Wednesday, prompting three days of official mourning for a rising star of the Sandinista party who once bitterly opposed the leftist movement ... full story
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change the United States' historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in annual trade benefits for Bolivia.
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Wednesday it has suspended joint military operations with Honduras to protest a coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a move that suggests the U.S. could further curtail dealings with the new Honduran government."W ... full story
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys early Thursday morning, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. milita ... full story
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- An Arkansas prison guard fired after an inmate was left in his own excrement for a weekend and nearly died had been previously fired for receiving stolen food and rehired by the state's maximum-security Tucker Unit, documents obt ... full story
DETROIT -- U.S. car and truck sales showed signs of stabilizing in June after a year of sharp declines, but every major automaker except Honda Motor Co. reported lower sales than in May.Still, year-over-year declines last month slowed for four of the ... full story
McALLEN -- A Border Patrol agent shot a suspected illegal immigrant after an altercation in a Kingsville convenience store Wednesday.The agent, who was not identified, chased the man into the Kwik Pantry convenience store after he and other people ra ... full story
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that "Iraq's future is in the hands of its own people," warning of more violence in the days ahead but signaling optimism that Iraq will prevail as a stable, sovereign nation."The Iraqi people are ... full story
NEW YORK -- Michael Jackson claimed to have a net worth of $236 million as of March 31, 2007, according to financial documents obtained by The Associated Press that shed light on the late pop star's murky finances and prodigious borrowing.The documen ... full story
DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. says its June U.S. sales fell only 10.7 percent from a year earlier, a far smaller drop than in previous months and a sign that auto sales may be recovering.The Dearborn, Michigan, automaker says it sold 173,462 cars and lig ... full story
NEW YORK -- The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency's strongest safety warning over side effects including depression and suicidal thoughts.The new requirement is based on repo ... full story
OXFORD, Fla. -- A 2-year-old girl was strangled by a 12-foot Burmese python Wednesday inside a central Florida home, authorities said.The snake was a family pet, not one of a fast-growing population of nonnative pythons that has been spreading in the ... full story
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