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The U.S. Senate voted to renew a law designed to combat domestic abuse Thursday after Republicans stepped back from what was becoming a politically risky fight over some of the expansions they oppose to the Violence Against Women Act.

The general manager for the New Orleans Saints said Thursday he has never listened in on an opposing team's communications, or asked to have the capability.

Three days after a massive earthquake threw Haiti into chaos, Alvana was homeless along with her two children. But her nightmare was just beginning. "I was gang-raped while I was sleeping in the middle of the street," she said. "And I got pregnant."

A federal judge has turned aside calls to publicly release video and photographs of the U.S. military raid and aftermath that left al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden dead.

At least eight people were killed, including one suicide bomber, and dozens were wounded in three bomb blasts in central and northern Nigeria on Thursday, the Red Cross said.

For Republicans and certain presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the best defense appears to be a good offense on issues and themes being pushed by President Barack Obama and Democrats.

The long overdue verdict in the case of the former Liberian President Charles Taylor will be widely celebrated as a critical achievement for international criminal law. Taylor has been on trial at the special court for Sierra Leone since 2006 on 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, pillage and the conscription of child soldiers.

A teacher at a Catholic school in Indiana is suing the diocese where she worked after allegedly being fired because of in vitro fertilization.

Fourteen members of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's family were being deported Thursday night to Saudi Arabia, Pakistani officials said.

"People make mistakes" and it's to be expected, an official said, given the agency's long history. The remarks follow new reports of agents getting drunk and paying for sex.

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Anya Kamenetz says proposals to help students dig out from college debt don't go far enough. Bankruptcy would give lenders incentive for negotiating, and lower the cost of college in the long term

Singer Bobby Brown pleaded no contest Wednesday to driving with a blood alcohol content of .08% or higher and was sentenced to 36 months of probation, his attorney said.

Darryl Williams and Benjamin Kline were shivering before the speech even started, their black umbrella no match for the steady rain and brisk Philadelphia wind. Even as water hit their faces, though, they were smiling, excited at the thought of seeing Ron Paul.

Jeffrey Miron says Wal-mart should be punished if it broke the law, but the law against bribing officials overseas is a mistake.

The ex-Liberian president's conviction was the first war crimes conviction of a former head of state by an international court since the trials of Nazi leaders after World War II.

Two current and two former TSA employees have been arrested in an alleged drug and bribery scheme by screeners who allowed large shipments of narcotics to pass through security at Los Angeles International Airport in exchange for cash.

John Edwards' defense team hammered away at a former campaign aide on Thursday after he was quizzed about his motives and asked whether he made up stories about how Edwards allegedly concealed contributions from campaign donors.

The Pakistani Supreme Court convicts Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt but gives him just a symbolic sentence that will not require him to serve time in prison.

The Arab League called an emergency meeting Thursday in Cairo where its ministers will discuss Syria's fragile truce that shows signs of unraveling.