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The White House is backing down from trying to get senators to remove some special deals from the health care bill.
A U.S. official says three people affiliated with the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in a drive-by shooting.
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The White House isn't backing down from its criticism of the Supreme Court over a campaign finance ruling.
It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.
Four people, including an American woman, arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three others remain in custody, Irish police said Saturday.
Four people, including an American woman, arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three others remain in custody, Irish police said Saturday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's confident the House will pass health care legislation, while dismissing Republican criticism that she did not have enough votes for the measure.
A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands.
An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time.
At least 13 people have been killed in a Mexican Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence.
Northern Illinois authorities say they've seized two tons of marijuana worth $6.6 million from two homes.
Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated.
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There is concern among conservatives about a young liberal scholar President Barack Obama has nominated to the federal appeals court in San Francisco.
President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
A U.S. official says a Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims.
Last weekend, armed robbers invaded the poker event and made off with more than $300,000 in jackpot money.
As stocks dipped, heart attacks rose. The trend weakened once they took into account seasons of the year, however, because heart attacks are more common in winter.
President Barack Obama says he wants to reward schools that show "real progress," and encourage change in schools that are "letting their students down."
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was among seven people arrested in Ireland this week as authorities investigate an alleged plot to kill the cartoonist over a 2007 sketch depicting the head of the Muslim prophet Mohammed on a dog's body.
Utah's House majority leader resigned from the Legislature Saturday, two days after his confession about sitting nude in a hot tub with a teenage girl 25 years ago stunned this conservative state.
Utah State House Majority Leader Kevin Garn shocked the Legislature on the final night of the 2010 session Thursday by confessing he paid a woman half his age $150,000 in 2002, to keep quiet about what he says was non-sexual encounter from 1983.
The late actor Corey Haim had a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said Friday was obtained through a major drug ring.
A petite, unassuming young science teacher made history Friday when she became what's believed to be the only female high school head football coach in the country!
Crews continued to work Friday to save a group of dolphins stranded off the coast of Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
A budding young bodybuilder was pumping iron when the weights fell on him and crushed his face.
He almost died.
Madison Shelton, 3, is still in the hospital after being attacked by dogs Wednesday afternoon. Her father and grandmother are sharing the story for the first time.
Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage.
Sen. Harry Reid's wife has undergone surgery at a Virginia hospital to stabilize injuries from a broken neck she suffered in a traffic accident.
A federal court Friday upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make sports programming and other channels they own available on equal terms to rival TV providers such as satellite companies.
A federal court has ruled that the vaccine additive thimerosal does not cause autism.
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