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WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's not much President Barack Obama can do to boost the economy in the next five months, and that alone might cost him the November election. But on a range of social issues, Obama is bypassing Congress and aggressively using his executive powers to make it easier for gays to marry, women to obtain birth control, and, now, young illegal immigrants to avoid deportation....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile....

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- President Barack Obama's call for states to raise the minimum age at which students can drop out of high school seems about as popular as a homework assignment on Friday afternoon....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When the Watergate complex was built in the 1960s, it was just a group of buildings on the western edge of the nation's capital. Then, 40 years ago Sunday, police in Washington arrested five men breaking into the office of the Democratic National Committee there....

McALLEN, Texas (AP) -- When it comes to arresting drug traffickers and dismantling organized crime, the investigation into a U.S. horse racing operation allegedly laundering money for one of Mexico's most powerful cartels is rare - and difficult to prosecute....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

CHICAGO (AP) -- With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its financial mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it....

The eyewitness testimony that confronted jurors in Jerry Sandusky's child-molestation trial this week was disturbing not only for its graphic descriptions of sex with boys, but for what it said about the people who surrounded and maybe even protected the once-revered Penn State assistant coach....