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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing their pay....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing pay....

MILAN (AP) -- The Italian government has announced urgent measures worth (EURO)80 billion ($100 billion) to spur economic growth and lower debt as financial markets increasingly worry about the country's finances....

LONDON (AP) -- The lawyer for a British hacking suspect says she'll fight any moves to extradite him to the United States....

BOSTON (AP) -- Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's first traditional campaign trip of the general election, a six-state trek by bus, is aimed at swaying undecided voters living "off the beaten path" outside America's big cities. To hear his advisers tell it, he'll be visiting the towns President Barack Obama forgot - but in states the president won in 2008....

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- If soccer fans aren't seeing enough action on the field in the European Championships, they can get a dose of rough-and-tumble Ukrainian politics near the fan zone in Kiev....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The head of the U.N. observers in Syria said Friday a recent spike in bloodshed is derailing the mission to monitor and defuse more than a year of violence and could prompt the unarmed force to pull out....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The grizzly bear sank its teeth into Ben Radakovich's back, at one point lifting him from the ground and shaking him hard as it mauled him on an Alaska trail....

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's foreign minister said Friday that Moscow isn't discussing Syria's future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed, in the latest volley in a contentious back-and-forth on how to end the bloody conflict....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

BEIJING (AP) -- China suspended three officials and apologized to a woman who was forced to undergo an abortion seven months into her pregnancy in a case that sparked an uproar after graphic photos of the mother and her dead baby were circulated online....

LONDON (AP) -- No one likes a critic....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Risking an election-year backlash from Republicans, the Obama administration is proposing new air quality standards to lower the amount of soot that can be released into the air....

TOKYO (AP) -- His trail cold for years, the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways in 1995 was arrested in a comic book cafe Friday, closing a chapter on Japan's worst terrorist attack....

BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi resumed her European tour Friday after a brief illness prompted by exhaustion forced her to cancel a gala dinner the night before....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is predicting the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law by a 6-3 vote....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi is predicting the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law by a 6-3 vote....