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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The pink and white cherry blossoms that color the nation's capital and draw a million visitors each spring began with trees that have survived for a century....

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in tight cages can expect to pay for their clearer consciences with higher food prices....

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- As pork producers build new barns and retrofit old ones to give hogs more space, they say consumers opposed to keeping pregnant sows in tight cages can expect to pay for their clearer consciences with higher food prices....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A dispute between Egypt and Gaza's Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts, fuel is running low for hospital backup generators, raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea for lack of treatment pumps and gas stations have shut down....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- About the only thing Kevin Flynn enjoys more than drinking his home-brewed beer is sharing it with fellow beer club members at festivals and tasting competitions. So Flynn and his buddies were shocked to discover that Wisconsin law prohibits sharing homemade suds anywhere outside the brewer's home....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a good thing the GOP presidential race slows down from here: The candidates are even more tired than the voters. And, boy, does it show....

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's most wanted man, who eluded officials for seven years by hiding out in dense forests, was captured Thursday and charged with murder, ending a frustrating and at times violent hunt, police said....

SYDNEY (AP) -- Australia's most wanted man, who eluded officials for seven years by hiding out in dense forests, was captured Thursday and charged with murder, ending a frustrating and at times violent hunt, police said....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The parents of a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida have vowed to keep fighting to get justice for their son....

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Neighborhood watch groups are designed to be the eyes and ears of police, not enforce the law themselves....

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Gay rights advocates are declaring victory after New Hampshire's failed attempt at repealing its gay marriage law....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- A standoff at a Toulouse apartment building entered a second day Thursday with hundreds of French police working to try to capture alive the main suspect in an al-Qaida-linked killing spree that left seven people dead....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- A dispute between Egypt and Gaza's Hamas government has produced the worst energy crisis here in years: Gazans are enduring 18-hour-a-day blackouts, fuel is running low for hospital backup generators, raw sewage pours into the Mediterranean Sea for lack of treatment pumps and gas stations have shut down....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's on to the House floor for a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's on to the House floor for a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new debt-slashing budget plan pushed by House Republicans heated up as a presidential campaign issue Sunday as the proposal's architect, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, sparred with top Democrats over its political fallout and downplayed the possibility he could be tapped as a vice presidential candidate....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's on to the House floor for a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's on to the House floor for a deficit-slashing GOP budget plan....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A key Senate vote is set on a scaled-down bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress and other federal workers from profiting from information learned on the job....