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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee federal jury split its verdict Friday against nine people accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across three states run mostly by Somali refugee gang members, convicting three men and acquitting six....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and scores of people injured just three weeks ahead of presidential elections....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Mitt Romney says he learns about what it's like to struggle in a difficult economy by sitting down to chat with regular people. But the Republican presidential candidate doesn't want anybody to see it - and his campaign won't say who he meets with or when the meetings occur....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Early returns in Iran's parliamentary runoff elections Friday showed conservative rivals of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading in many constituencies in the vote that was billed as an endorsement of the country's controversial nuclear program....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Prosecutors rested their campaign fraud case against John Edwards on Thursday after 14 days of dramatic and often unflattering testimony that focused on the once-promising politician's infidelity and the secret money they say he used to cover up the affair he feared would derail his presidential ambitions....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Friday it will for the first time require companies drilling for oil and natural gas on public and Indian lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations....