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SPLENDORA, Texas — Two children who were found living in a stench-filled abandoned school bus near Houston, its windows blocked and the lot around it covered in trash, are in the custody of Texas child welfare workers, officials said Thursday.

A postal worker discovered the children, ages 11 and 5, ...

Iran will not be able to use alliances with Latin America to wield significant influence on security in the West, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.

The Pentagon tried to clarify remarks made by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, when he told a Senate committtee on Wednesday that the U.S. military is seeking "permission" from a foreign organization to intervene in Syria.

The House is expected to vote Thursday on jobs legislation that would mark rare agreement between the Obama administration and House Republicans.

In the battle of incumbents, Rep. Dennis Kucinich loses his House seat to Rep. Marcy Kaptur. CNN's Dana Bash reports.

WASHINGTON — Air fares are likely to stay high throughout this decade, as passenger travel grows but airline capacity shrinks, according to a government forecast issued Thursday.

In its annual economic analysis, the Federal Aviation Administration said travelers won't get much relief until airlines start getting more competition, which is ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said Thursday the violent crackdown by Bashar Assad's regime in Syria shouldn't be tolerated, but the world must respond "in a responsible way."...

RICHMOND, Va. — More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday.

Almost one in five high school-aged teens smokes, down from earlier decades, but ...

I don't know if Newt Gingrich should, will or even is thinking about getting out of the presidential race. Ditto for Rick Santorum and Ron Paul. I do know there are practical, political and one very big human reason that candidates stay in races past the time many think they should get out.

Comedian Bill Maher says Rush Limbaugh has apologized, and liberals are looking bad not accepting it.

Stephanie Coontz says it's not just things like Limbaugh's insults and election year attacks on women's contraception that show women's gains are slipping

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry says the violent crackdown by Bashar Assad's regime in Syria shouldn't be tolerated, but the United States and the international community must respond "in a responsible way."...

Defendant had a driver’s license in his possession, but he was arrested for a suspended license, for which there were several possible reasons. It was never shown that there was not a valid warrant. If there was no valid warrant, Herring would apply. State v. Brock, 2012 La. App. LEXIS 248 (La. App. 2d Cir. March 7, 2012)*:

Based on the evidence presented, there was no showing that the arresting officers acted with reckless disregard of the constitutional requirements or were grossly negligent. Thus, the record supports the district court's finding that even if the warrant was not valid at the time, the deputies acted in an objectively reasonable manner in relying on the information of an active warrant to arrest the defendant. Consequently, as held in Herring, supra, the exclusionary rule is not applicable under such circumstances. Therefore, we cannot say the district court erred in denying the motion to suppress the evidence seized in the search incident to that arrest. The assignment of error lacks merit.

Officers suspected defendant for a robbery and surveilled his house after they got a line on where he lived. They saw him coming and going and then confronted him, and he produced a key and consented to the search. Nshaka v. State, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 3686 (Fla. 4th DCA March 7, 2012).*

Let the Sparks Fly, 3-8-12

Illusion of permanency: our denial as a nation, 3-8-12

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican activists foresee a long, lumbering presidential campaign that almost certainly will nominate Mitt Romney but may leave him weakened in a fall battle against President Barack Obama....