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CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) -- A Colorado jury acquitted former Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox of sexual assault charges on Friday, a verdict that was met with disbelief by the alleged victim....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Thousands of Texas rice farmers won't get water for irrigation this year because lakes and rivers remain low after more than a year of drought....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- A nuclear deal with the United States may have raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula could ease soon, but rare interviews Friday by The Associated Press with Pyongyang residents suggest deep cynicism of U.S. intentions....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The leaders of 25 European countries on Friday signed a new treaty designed to limit government overspending, but their good intentions were immediately put to the test when Spain said it would miss deficit targets this year to spare itself from austerity overload....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader told voters it was their patriotic duty to cast ballots in parliamentary elections Friday to send a message of national unity during a "sensitive period" in the showdown with the West over Tehran's nuclear program....

VILLACOUBLAY, France (AP) -- Two French journalists smuggled out of a war-torn Syrian city where they were trapped for nine days returned home Friday, one injured and carried from the plane on a stretcher, the other smiling broadly and punching his fist in the air....

SIDNEY, Mont. (AP) -- Sidney isn't the first small town in the West to get run over by a gold rush, in this case black gold - more than 16 million barrels of crude being pumped every month from the massive Bakken oil field beneath eastern Montana and western North Dakota....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A week before Dharun Ravi was sentenced to jail for using a webcam to spy on a gay college roommate who later killed himself, supporters rallied in his support, arguing that New Jersey laws should be changed so that someone in his situation could not be found guilty of a hate crime....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will travel to Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday to speak about the economy....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack on Iran would do more harm than good....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack on Iran would do more harm than good....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama warned that he is not bluffing about attacking Iran if it builds a nuclear weapon, but in an interview published Friday, Obama also cautioned U.S. ally Israel that a premature attack on Iran would do more harm than good....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- While tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue, according to a report by a former Somali government official....

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A planned walking tour providing a peek into serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's life and the Milwaukee haunts where he met and stalked his victims is drawing protests, even prompting online deal-maker Groupon to cancel what some called a creepy promotion....

LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister David Cameron stood before the world's media Friday and finally admitted: Yes, he had ridden the horse....

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- A reported tornado destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms crossed the region Friday, emergency management officials said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cost estimates for a key part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year's budget, and a senior Republican lawmaker on Friday demanded an explanation....

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) -- Deliberations resume Friday in the sexual assault trial of former Denver Broncos cornerback Perrish Cox, after testimony ended with jurors watching a video of him expressing shock that the alleged victim was pregnant and that he was accused of raping her....

WILLCOX, Ariz. (AP) -- Authorities are working to determine what motivated someone to fire a rifle indiscriminately at a southeastern Arizona high school, injuring 17-year-old boy who was watching a baseball game....

It has been nearly one year since a monstrous earthquake triggered a tsunami that roared across Japan's coast on March 11, 2011, transforming once-pristine and thriving towns into waterlogged wastelands and sparking the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter-century....