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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Embarrassed by a prostitution scandal, the Secret Service will assign chaperones on some trips to enforce new rules of conduct that make clear that excessive drinking, entertaining foreigners in their hotel rooms and cavorting in disreputable establishments are no longer tolerated....

CHICAGO (AP) -- The trial of the man accused of killing Jennifer Hudson's family opened with the marquee witness, as prosecutors put the award-winning actress and singer on the stand Monday for sometimes-tearful testimony that may well leave a lasting impression on jurors....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- With the horrors of a deadly shooting rampage still a fresh memory, some students at a California Christian college on Monday will resume attending classes in a building where seven people were killed earlier this month....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- He had a Las Vegas wedding to attend, but Bryan Dalia was hung over from some marathon partying the night before....

BILLLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Booming oil production across a wide expanse of the Northern Plains is forcing law enforcement from the U.S. and Canada to gird for a spike in crimes ranging from drug trafficking and gun offenses to prostitution....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Roger Clemens perjury trial moves into the next phase with the planned seating of a jury and opening arguments....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman, who slipped out of jail on $150,000 bail in the early morning darkness, went back into hiding Monday and likely fled to another state to avoid threats as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin....

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Polly Klaas. Elizabeth Smart. Megan Kanka. The names are synonymous with a parent's worst nightmare: a child snatched by a stranger from the safety of her own home....

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Investigators found "suspicious circumstances around a possible entry point" at the home of a 6-year-old Arizona girl whose disappearance has prompted a massive search, with more than 150 law enforcement officers trying to figure out whether she was abducted, a police spokeswoman said Sunday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will announce a plan to impose sanctions against foreign entities that help authoritative regimes use technology to crack down on dissidents, The Washington Post reported Sunday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will announce a plan to impose sanctions against foreign entities that help authoritative regimes use technology to crack down on dissidents, The Washington Post reported Sunday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rebuke to the Obama administration, government auditors are calling for the cancellation of an $8 billion Medicare program that congressional Republicans have criticized as a political ploy....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner....

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Investigators found "suspicious circumstances around a possible entry point" at the home of a 6-year-old Arizona girl whose disappearance has prompted a massive search, with more than 150 law enforcement officers trying to figure out whether she was abducted, a police spokeswoman said Sunday....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone....