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Thales of Miletus, considered one of the first philosophers in history, said, perhaps jokingly, that hope is the most abundant thing in the world, because even when you have absolutely nothing, hey, at least you still have hope.

We're not seeing a whole lot of hope coming out of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 14-year-old girl found covered in blood faces a preliminary murder charge in her 4-year-old cousin's stabbing death, Indianapolis police said Sunday.

Police spokesman Kendale Adams said the girl was arrested after being questioned by officers. She was being held on a preliminary murder charge at the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The discovery of a man's body Sunday in the stable area of Churchill Downs was being investigated as a homicide, but there is no connection to the racetrack or the Kentucky Derby, police said.

"At this point we don't have anything pointing to the fact that ...

HARDEMAN COUNTY, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities are working to identify two people found dead at a home associated with a man suspected in the abduction of a woman and her three young daughters.

The bodies were found in Mississippi, though FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic would not say if they were ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two Americans detained and accused of spying after hiking near the Iraq-Iran border three years ago will marry Saturday in the San Francisco Bay area.

A private wedding ceremony for Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd was set for 4 p.m. at an undisclosed location, said San ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — While 81-year-old Warren Buffett's health has been on investors' minds, many shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting said Saturday that they aren't that worried about Buffett's prostate cancer diagnosis.

More than 30,000 people are expected to fill Omaha's downtown arena and overflow rooms to hear Buffett ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A major Yahoo shareholder who exposed a fabrication on the new CEO's academic credentials is demanding that the Internet company fire him for unethical conduct.

In a letter Friday, activist hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb urged Yahoo's board to dump CEO Scott Thompson. Loeb indicated he ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presidential candidate acknowledged the money had been given for his benefit.

Alex D. Forger said that Edwards' then-lawyer Wade Smith told him in the fall of ...

WASHINGTON — With financial losses mounting, the nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is urging the House to quickly pass legislation that would give it wide authority to close thousands of low-revenue post offices, reduce labor costs and end Saturday delivery.

At its meeting Friday, the Postal Service's board of governors ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In World War II's final moments in Europe, Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy gave his news agency perhaps the biggest scoop in its history. He reported, a full day ahead of the competition, that the Germans had surrendered unconditionally at a former schoolhouse in Reims, France.

MIAMI (AP) — Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami early Friday after serving about three years for defrauding investors.

Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke did not give an exact time on when Black was released and said he didn't have any other ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Authorities say a bear tranquilized on a Colorado campus last week and widely viewed in photos as it fell from a tree has been killed by a car.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the black bear was struck on U.S. 36 around dawn Thursday.

Spokeswoman Jennifer ...

Barack Obama says he agrees with Abraham Lincoln (you could ask him) that America is "the exceptional nation," a nation unique in a world of moral squalor, a beacon of hope for the "tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free." But sometimes cold pragmatism demands the exceptional ...

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee gave panel members a draft of a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., citing the "refusal" of the nation's top prosecutor to cooperate in an investigation of the botched Fast and Furious gunrunning operation.

The ...

California groups that support parental rights and therapies to help people escape unwanted same-sex attractions are fighting a first-of-its-kind California bill that would ban such sessions for teens and children, and discourage them for adults.

SB 1172, which opponents say is a denial of freedom and family rights, already has ...

PORTLAND, ORE. — The Obama administration is buying into an ambitious health care initiative in Oregon, announcing Thursday it has tentatively agreed to chip in $1.9 billion over five years to help get the program off the ground.

Oregon hopes to prove states can save billions on Medicaid without sacrificing ...