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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his first live communication with his country's news media in nearly a week Thursday, saying he was in good shape and recovering quickly from tumor surgery in Cuba....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez made a surprise conciliatory gesture Thursday by seeking negotiations with the United Kingdom to establish several weekly flights from Buenos Aires to the Falkland Islands....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- TITLE: "Three of A Kind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney padded his lead in the race for delegates Tuesday by winning Republican presidential contests in six states....

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....

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....

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....

CAIRO (AP) -- Seven Americans on trial over charges their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt Thursday after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave before a travel ban was imposed....

CAIRO (AP) -- Seven Americans on trial over charges their pro-democracy groups fomented unrest flew out of Egypt Thursday after the U.S. posted nearly $5 million in bail for them and nine others who managed to leave before a travel ban was imposed....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A woman who calls herself the "Black Madam" could face charges in the death of a London tourist who received illegal buttocks-enhancement injections last year in a Philadelphia hotel, police said Thursday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In many ways, Thursday encapsulated why the Senate is failing to live up to its aspiration to be the world's "greatest deliberative body" and why Maine Republican Olympia Snowe is bailing out of the institution in the prime of her career....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A Rutgers University police officer told jurors Thursday that he knocked on the door of a dorm room shortly before 10 p.m. on Sept. 22, 2010, for a well-being check on one of the residents, Tyler Clementi....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New York City's Police Department is facing mounting criticism of its secret surveillance of Muslims across the Northeast, with ACLU chapters and numerous other groups demanding an investigation and New Jersey's governor accusing the NYPD of arrogantly acting as if "their jurisdiction is the world."...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Two Western journalists killed in the central Syrian city of Homs last week were buried in a cemetery in the embattled neighborhood where they died, according to activist videos posted online Thursday....

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- A teenager was charged Thursday with killing three students in a school shooting, the first step in proceedings that could see him charged as an adult and facing the possibility of life without parole if convicted....