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NEW YORK (AP) -- Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. That was Vice President Joe Biden's message for Republican Mitt Romney in a campaign speech Thursday that blended a robust defense of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record with a harsh attack on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's positions....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. That was Vice President Joe Biden's message for Republican Mitt Romney in a campaign speech Thursday that blended a robust defense of President Barack Obama's foreign policy record with a harsh attack on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's positions....

KEENE, N.H. (AP) -- The presidential campaign debate over Republican Mitt Romney's tenure at a private equity firm is going down the drain....

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the first head of state since World War II to be convicted by an international war crimes court, a historic verdict that sends a message that tyrants worldwide will be tracked down and brought to justice....

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."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate overcame election-year gender politics Thursday to pass a bill renewing the government's main domestic violence program....

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TALLAHASSEE — A Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant who ordered the reopening of a fog- and smoke-shrouded interstate highway shortly before a series of crashes killed 11 people was unaware of the agency's procedures and had no formal training in opening and reopening roads, a state report said Thursday.

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BRIDGEPORT, OHIO — The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian at least not until the Boy Scouts of America disqualified her over the organization's ban on gays.

Now, parents who were aware of Jennifer Tyrell's sexual orientation well before ...

UK Business Secretary Vince Cable says all UK exports to Argentine armed forces are being halted amid tension over the Falkland Islands.

Campaigners and human rights groups welcome a UN-backed special court's guilty verdict against the former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States....

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's cuts Spain's credit rating because of the risks it could take on more debt to support its banks.

Syria is "in contravention" of an internationally agreed peace plan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warns, amid reports of continuing fighting.

Terry Spinks, who won boxing gold at the 1956 Olympics at the age of only 18, dies aged 74.

BEIRUT (AP) -- Washington reached out to Syria's most important ally and protector Saturday, urging Russia to join a coordinated effort to resolve the deadly conflict as the violence spilled across the border into Lebanon, a senior State Department official said....

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Libya's government has retaken control of the country's main airport from disgruntled militiamen who stormed the Tripoli site with heavy machine guns and armored vehicles on Monday, Libya's interim leader said....

Samsung, which makes the Galaxy smartphone, says its next flagship handset will use a new quad-core processor.

Mark Williams defeats Liu Chuang in the first round of the World Championship to set up a clash with Ronnie O'Sullivan.

LONDON (AP) -- A delay in reporting as missing a British spy whose naked and decomposing body was later found locked inside a sports bag frustrated police inquiries into his mysterious death, witnesses told an inquest hearing Thursday....