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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Running for the Senate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney once assured voters in a state with strong gun-control laws: "I don't line up with the NRA." Now the likely Republican presidential nominee, Romney will headline the National Rifle Association's annual convention Friday and assure tens of thousands of gun-rights activists that he's squarely on their side....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's envoys are heading for nuclear talks with confidence that the chips are falling their way....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's envoys are heading for nuclear talks with confidence that the chips are falling their way....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's envoys are heading for nuclear talks with confidence that the chips are falling their way....

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's envoys are heading for nuclear talks with confidence that the chips are falling their way....

ROME (AP) -- The Northern League, an anti-immigrant, anti-corruption movement in Italy, expelled from its ranks Thursday a top Senate official implicated in an investigation of suspected embezzlement of party funds....

EXETER, N.H. (AP) -- Eyeing the November election, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday called presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney "out of touch" and "out of step" with history and basic American values....

A Florida judge ruled Thursday that a woman's defamation lawsuit against Casey Anthony can go forward, contending that a jury should make the final decision on several contentious issues critical to the case.

Former Bill actor Colin Tarrant took his own life after becoming depressed, a coroner rules.

Sir Jackie Stewart fears cancelling the under-threat Bahrain Grand Prix could have a damaging effect on Formula 1.

TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- Two years after Artem Saveliev's American adoptive mother put him alone on a plane back to his homeland, the towheaded 9-year-old shivers and barks "No!" when asked if he ever would go back to the United States....

TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- Two years after Artem Saveliev's American adoptive mother put him alone on a plane back to his homeland, the towheaded 9-year-old shivers and barks "No!" when asked if he ever would go back to the United States....

TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- Two years after Artem Saveliev's American adoptive mother put him alone on a plane back to his homeland, the towheaded 9-year-old shivers and barks "No!" when asked if he ever would go back to the United States....

TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- Two years after Artem Saveliev's American adoptive mother put him alone on a plane back to his homeland, the towheaded 9-year-old shivers and barks "No!" when asked if he ever would go back to the United States....

A shampooing robot, the North Pole wedding proposal and President Obama and a giant bunny. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box, this week with Natalie Jamieson.

CAIRO (AP) -- Hosni Mubarak's former spy chief said in comments published Thursday that he decided to run for president to prevent Islamists from turning Egypt into a "religious state," and warned that the country would be internationally isolated if one of them won the presidency....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The press bus took a wrong turn Thursday. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement....

On Thursday, CNN correspondent Ivan Watson was at a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey. A stone's throw away, a barbed-wire fence marked the border with Syria, a porous frontier that has become a lifeline for the Syrian opposition inside the country. For hours, he watched Syrians, whole families even, crawl through a hole in the fence to go back and forth across the border. Most of them would eventually return to the refugee camp.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A toy grenade was to blame for an evacuation Thursday at a building near ground zero, authorities said....

The UN is preparing to send monitors to Syria to observe a fragile ceasefire, which has come into force after more than a year of violence.