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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is bringing a new trade case against China that seeks to pressure the rising economic power to end its export restrictions on key materials used to manufacture hybrid car batteries, flat-screen televisions and other high-tech goods....

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing 30 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The San Francisco sheriff has a political thicket to get through now that he's putting his legal woes behind him with a plea bargain in a domestic violence case that made international headlines....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- At a federal prison in the mountains of southern West Virginia, hundreds of female inmates are taking part in a pilot program to bring the quality of entertainment behind bars into the 21st century....

At 38, Jason Bjaranson was starting to figure it might be time to get out of commercial fishing on the Pacific Ocean. He was starting to think he should buy some life insurance, and had second thoughts about making what proved to be his last trip. But he had a family to support, and the bills were piling up....

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Things have only gotten messier at Dartmouth College in the weeks since a former fraternity brother went public with hazing allegations involving swimming in and swallowing vomit....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is the economy election, right? Tell that to the world....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- This is the economy election, right? Tell that to the world....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin prosecutors are expected to play a video in court Tuesday that shows an emaciated 15-year-old girl telling police her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, leaving her to fend for herself off scraps she found on the floor or in the garbage....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin prosecutors are expected to play a video in court Tuesday that shows an emaciated 15-year-old girl telling police her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, leaving her to fend for herself off scraps she found on the floor or in the garbage....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin prosecutors are expected to play a video in court Tuesday that shows an emaciated 15-year-old girl telling police her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, leaving her to fend for herself off scraps she found on the floor or in the garbage....

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- In the eyes of New Zealand immigration authorities in 2010, Kim Dotcom's money trumped his criminal past....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A jury in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will have to wrestle with some relatively untested legal issues when it gets the case....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A jury in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will have to wrestle with some relatively untested legal issues when it gets the case....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Muslim convert is due to answer rare state-level terror charges after being accused of building a pipe bomb in New York City to try to attack police, soldiers and other government targets....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Muslim convert is due to answer rare state-level terror charges after being accused of building a pipe bomb in New York City to try to attack police, soldiers and other government targets....

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing 10 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum is sticking by earlier questions he posed about former rival Mitt Romney's authenticity, saying the points he made during the primary campaign were legitimate....

ATLANTA (AP) -- As he winds down his presidential campaign, Newt Gingrich faces a new challenge: reinventing himself politically yet again....

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- We were robbed! That's how many Peruvians feel, now that U.S. courts have given Spain the 17 tons of silver and gold coins that a private company salvaged from the wreck of a colonial-era Spanish sailing ship....