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"Jersey Shore" star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino confirmed Wednesday he is in a drug rehab program "to get control of a prescription medication problem I had due to exhaustion."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

The discovery of a biological trigger for male baldness raises hopes for developing new treatments.

A Dutch engineer claims to have flown using home-made wings. Jarno Smeets got the idea from his grandfather's sketches and Leonardo da Vinci's wing drawings.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Plea bargain negotiations between criminals and prosecutors will now come under constitutional scrutiny because a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that convictions can be overturned if defense lawyers don't adequately assist clients in deciding whether to accept such offers....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A day before the public learned the name of the soldier accused of methodically slaughtering 16 civilians in Afghanistan, his lawyer called a news conference and sketched a different portrait of Robert Bales: that of a loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade's injury and sent into combat one too many times....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A day before the public learned the name of the soldier accused of methodically slaughtering 16 civilians in Afghanistan, his lawyer called a news conference and sketched a different portrait of Robert Bales: that of a loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade's injury and sent into combat one too many times....

CAIRO (AP) -- An International Monetary Fund team was due to leave Cairo Wednesday without securing an agreement over a $3.2 billion loan to help boost the nation's battered economy....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- In a tense standoff, French riot police demanded the surrender Wednesday of a gunman who reportedly boasted of shooting seven victims in an al-Qaida-linked terror spree aimed at "bringing France to its knees."...

Mexico's Supreme Court refuses to allow the immediate release of Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman jailed for 60 years for kidnapping.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni Interior Ministry official says tribesmen have kidnapped three Filipino sailors to press for release of a prisoner....

ARBUTUS, Md. (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans alike are criticizing Mitt Romney after a top adviser likened him to an Etch A Sketch....

A company appointed to provide interpreters for courts is accused of stealing the details of independent linguists to bulk up its database, BBC London has learned.

CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, said Wednesday it is considering running its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections, dropping its previous decision to avoid direct participation in the race....

A boy of 16 is charged with the manslaughter of a consultant surgeon who was injured outside his Cheshire home and died in hospital six days later.

The head of an action group looking at reducing waiting times at emergency departments across NI says the current system is "intolerable".

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Authorities said Wednesday they believe a body found outside Williston, N.D., is that of a missing Sidney, Mont., high school math teacher who disappeared Jan. 7 during a morning run....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Allergy season has come early and hit with a wheezing vengeance in parts of the South and Midwest this year, thanks largely to an unusually warm winter. Abundant pollen is causing watery eyes, sniffles and sneezing....