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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation amid the nuclear standoff with the West....

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -- New Balance running shoes rest on a Boston College floor mat as Luzmila Garcia starts the climb to her son Franco's attic bedroom....

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -- New Balance running shoes rest on a Boston College floor mat as Luzmila Garcia starts the climb to her son Franco's attic bedroom....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school were set to return to class, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school were set to return to class, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- As the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's liaison with another man heads into its sixth day, prosecutors won't say who they intend to call to testify....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has strongly criticized the West for backing the Syrian opposition against the government, saying it has fueled the conflict....

BEIRUT (AP) -- A senior Lebanese security official says a French journalist who was wounded in Syria last week is receiving treatment in Beirut and is expected to fly home later in the day....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's military is threatening a "merciless sacred war" against South Korea just days after Pyongyang struck a nuclear disarmament-for-aid deal with the United States....

TROY, Ohio (AP) -- Federal and local law enforcement officials say they're widening the investigation into child sexual exploitation allegations against an adoptive father charged with raping three boys in his care....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school are set to return to class, a day after charges were filed in juvenile court against the 17-year-old suspect....

NEWTON, Mass. (AP) -- Police have no new leads in the Feb. 22 disappearance of a 21-year-old Boston College junior. But his parents say they're keeping hope alive that he'll still come home....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader urged Iranians to vote in large numbers as the country held parliamentary elections Friday, saying a high turnout would send a strong message to the enemies of the nation....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama said November's election will give voters the chance to break a stalemate about America's direction, declaring Thursday in a campaign speech in battleground Ohio that he and Republican Mitt Romney offer "two fundamentally different views" about how to grow the economy and create jobs....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is embarking on a concentrated one-day fundraising trip, with a stop in his hometown of Chicago and another in Atlanta for a big-draw event with film producer Tyler Perry and performer Cee Lo Green....

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) -- President Barack Obama reached out to a generation of young soldiers Friday as he added new protections for veterans and military families misled or bilked by career colleges and technical programs that target their federal education benefits. "They don't care about you," he declared, "they care about your cash."...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Diving into campaign mode full-bore, President Barack Obama will headline his first re-election rallies next week, marking an important turning point in the race for the White House....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effort by Senate Republicans to overturn President Barack Obama's order that most employers or their insurers cover the cost of contraceptives....

OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

TROY, Ohio (AP) -- A 10-year-old boy shook when asked about being prostituted to two other men by an adoptive father who regularly had sex with him, according to police, who said the boy was fearful of talking because he didn't want to be taken from his home or separated from his new siblings....