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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court rejected requests from news organizations Friday for live, televised coverage of this month's historic arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, but agreed to release audio recordings of the proceedings on the same day....

FRANKLIN, N.C. (AP) -- A private jet owned by a Florida businessman that crashed in western North Carolina struck the ground, flipped and burst into flames, killing the five on board, officials said Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States warned Friday it would not send food aid to North Korea if it goes ahead with a rocket launch next month....

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Nine men have been indicted in a fraternity hazing case on charges that they beat two Youngstown State University pledges to the point that they wound up hospitalized....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California doctor has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients....

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina mother pleaded guilty Friday to killing her two young sons by suffocating them and putting their bodies into a car, letting it roll into a river. The crime was remarkably similar to what Susan Smith did to her two boys decades ago in this state....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's at "the end of the rope," and a majority of Americans feel the same way....

They are questions already being debated: Did the soldier suspected of killing Afghan villagers have post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD? And did the people who sent him back to war after he was injured properly determine he was mentally fit to return?...

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate's love life has been convicted of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy in a case that exploded into the headlines when the victim of the snooping committed suicide....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new analysis of President Barack Obama's budget for next year says the deficit scenario isn't as rosy as the White House painted it....

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a Florida couple is accused of locking an extremely malnourished boy inside a cage in a closet as punishment for stealing food they were withholding from him....

SEATTLE (AP) -- The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers was on his way to a U.S. military prison, a senior defense official said Friday, as the soldier's attorney spoke of the impact the fighting had on his client....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The father of a man accused of stabbing four in an Ohio office building said his son is schizophrenic and might have been stressed after his aunt told him to move out...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration confirmed Friday that President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke by phone amid confusion over Karzai's demand that U.S. forces leave posts in Afghan villages, a key tenet of the current military strategy. But the White House did not immediately confirm Karzai's claim that Obama had called him seeking clarity, and that Karzai had reiterated the demand....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Afghan soldier shot to death a 22-year-old Marine at an outpost in southwestern Afghanistan last month in a previously undisclosed case of apparent Afghan treachery that marked at least the seventh killing of an American military member by his supposed ally in the past six weeks, Marine officials said....

SEATTLE (AP) -- The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers is expected to be flown to a U.S. military prison as early as Friday, a senior defense official said, as the soldier's attorney spoke of the impact the fighting had on his client....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Afghan soldier shot to death a 22-year-old Marine at an outpost in southwestern Afghanistan last month in a previously undisclosed case of apparent Afghan treachery that marked at least the seventh killing of an American military member by his supposed ally in the past six weeks, Marine officials said....

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Isle Royale National Park's gray wolves, one of the world's most closely monitored predator populations, are at their lowest ebb in more than a half-century and could die out within a few years, scientists said Friday....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The father of a man accused of stabbing four men in an Ohio office building says his son may have been stressed after the aunt he lives with told him to move out....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior defense official says the U.S. soldier accused in the killings of 16 Afghan civilians is expected to be flown to the U.S. military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., as early as Friday....