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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) -- Virginia Tech officials spent the last four days defending their actions during the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, telling opposing lawyers who peppered them with difficult questions that they did what they could under the grim circumstances....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Palestinian health official says the death toll from a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza strip has risen to 12 militants....

MONTESANO, Wash. (AP) -- A man stabbed a judge and shot a sheriff's deputy with her own weapon in a courthouse struggle Friday, authorities said. A manhunt was under way for the assailant....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's powerful military establishment is under rare scrutiny from the country's top court, which after a gap of 16 years has opened an investigation into allegations the army funneled money to politicians to influence elections....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's powerful military establishment is under rare scrutiny from the country's top court, which after a gap of 16 years has opened an investigation into allegations the army funneled money to politicians to influence elections....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- More than a century ago, fearing that his country might be swallowed up in the Great Game rivalry between the British empire to the east and the Russian army to the north, an Afghan king made a radical decision: He banned railroads....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A man wearing an Afghan army uniform shot dead a U.S. soldier in the east of the country, one of two NATO troops killed on Friday, military officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan police official says insurgents attacked a checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan and that two border policemen and three attackers were killed in the ensuing firefight....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A 39-year-old man charged in connection with threatening letters containing white powder that were sent to members of Congress and some media organizations was arrested Friday....

BOSTON (AP) -- The brother of one of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's alleged murder victims says he's been told by a representative for federal prosecutors in Boston that Bulger's girlfriend Catherine Greig is considering pleading guilty to a charge of helping Bulger evade capture....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The operator of a Utah coal mine where a 2007 collapse led to the deaths of nine people agreed on Friday to plead guilty to two misdemeanor criminal charges and pay a $500,000 fine....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Occupy Wall Street in New York City could run out of cash in a matter of weeks....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Occupy Wall Street in New York City could run out of cash in a matter of weeks....

MINAMI-SOMA, Japan (AP) -- The doctors and nurses at Futaba Hospital pleaded for help as a radioactive plume wafted over their hospital. They had been ordered out but had no vehicles to evacuate the hundreds of patients in their care. After two days of waiting in the cold with no electricity, help finally came....

BEIJING (AP) -- Police in western China fatally shot a Tibetan man and wounded two others amid protests against Chinese rule, an activist group and a U.S. broadcaster said Saturday....

BEIJING (AP) -- Police in western China fatally shot a Tibetan man and wounded two others amid protests against Chinese rule, an activist group and a U.S. broadcaster said Saturday....

EFFINGHAM, Ill. (AP) -- Rick Santorum on Saturday morphed his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination into the incumbent Democrat both are fighting to unseat, calling the two indistinguishable on key issues of the day....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum says no group has done a better job of promoting American freedom than the National Rifle Association....

SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is still having fun with his Etch A Sketch....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney's Super Tuesday victories elicited a collective yawn from his party's superdelegates....