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NEW YORK (AP) -- Michelle Obama chose an off-the-shoulder Marchesa gown for her duties Wednesday night as hostess at a White House state dinner honoring the British prime minister and his wife, David and Samantha Cameron....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil....

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil....

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- A tractor-trailer collided with a school bus carrying about two dozen students and adults Wednesday in western Pennsylvania, killing the truck driver and injuring at least 20 people, most of them students, authorities said....

BOSTON (AP) -- The longtime girlfriend of former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges she helped him evade capture during 16 years on the run, and a man who claims one of his relatives was strangled by Bulger called her a "monster."...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Union leaders upset that this summer's Democratic National Convention will be held in right-to-work North Carolina plan to stage their own political gathering in a more union-friendly state....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Union leaders upset that this summer's Democratic National Convention will be held in right-to-work North Carolina plan to stage their own political gathering in a more union-friendly state....

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Union leaders upset that this summer's Democratic National Convention will be held in right-to-work North Carolina plan to stage their own political gathering in a more union-friendly state....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A state governor was suspended from President Hugo Chavez's governing party on Wednesday after making critical remarks about the president of Venezuela's National Assembly....

PARIS (AP) -- A North Korean and a French orchestra performed a landmark concert on Wednesday, adding a note of harmony to longstanding tensions between the isolated nation and the West....

SIERRE, Switzerland (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 Belgian students and six adults and instantly changing a joyous skiing vacation into a tragedy spanning two European nations....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A 3-year-old scrambled out of his child seat after his parents stopped for gas early Wednesday, found a gun police say was left in the car by his father and fatally shot himself in the head....

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (AP) -- A tractor-trailer collided with a school bus carrying two dozen students and adults Wednesday in western Pennsylvania, killing the truck driver and injuring at least 20 people, most of them students, authorities said....

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- The parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 campus massacre worked for years to prove university officials were negligent for waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus, and a jury agreed with them on Wednesday....

BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) -- A man at court with family members opened fire outside a Southeast Texas courthouse Wednesday, killing an elderly bystander and wounding at least three others - including his daughter and her mother - before briefly taking hostages at a nearby business, police said....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Welcome to the Caribbean, Republicans....