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A 17-year-old boy is jailed for life without parole in the US after being found guilty of shooting dead two British tourists in Florida last April.

Chilean prosecutors say they will seek murder charges against four suspected neo-Nazis accused of carrying out an attack on a young gay man.

A peasant army, incensed by the large Western presence in China, descended on Beijing and laid siege to the foreign quarter. Howard W. French reviews "The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China" by David J. Silbey.

HAVANA (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI demanded more freedom for the Catholic Church in communist-run Cuba on Wednesday and preached against "fanaticism" in an unusually political sermon before hundreds of thousands at Revolution Plaza, with President Raul Castro in the front row....

PITTSBURGH — God is going green.

With a Bible in one hand and a protest sign in the other, many religious activists are now moving in lockstep with the environmental movement in the fight against oil and gas drilling.

Stewardship of the Earth is hardly a new concept in ...

Andy Murray overcomes illness to secure a last-four place at the Miami Masters after a 4-6 6-3 6-4 victory over Janko Tipsarevic.

BOSTON (AP) -- Ernest Hemingway shows a tenderness that wasn't part of his usual macho persona in a dozen unpublished letters that became publicly available Wednesday in a collection of the author's papers at the Kennedy presidential library....

MASHANTUCKET | For two decades, the Mashantucket Pequots lived like Indian gambling royalty. Luxury cars abounded on their tiny, gated reservation of Colonial and ranch-style homes in the woods of southeastern Connecticut.

The tribe's Foxwoods casino, the largest in the Western Hemisphere, allowed members to live without concern for money, ...

With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing how to spend the money. But doing it the right way - protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity - takes some thought and planning....

With a half-billion-dollar multistate lottery jackpot up for grabs, plenty of folks are fantasizing how to spend the money. But doing it the right way - protecting your riches, your identity and your sanity - takes some thought and planning....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House was poised Wednesday to reject a bipartisan budget plan mixing tax increases with spending cuts across the budget to wring $4 trillion from the budget deficit over the coming decade, paving the way for Republicans to muscle through on Thursday a stringent GOP budget that blends big cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with a plan to dramatically overhaul Medicare....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Concluding three days of fervent, public disagreement, a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology will now wrestle in private about whether to strike down key parts or even all of President Barack Obama's historic health care law. The justices' decision, due this June, will affect the way virtually every American receives and pays for care....

Friends of two British tourists murdered in Florida have addressed American teenager Shawn Tyson in court, after he was found guilty of their murders.

DALLAS (AP) -- The case of the JetBlue captain who came unglued at 35,000 feet has focused attention on what some aviation experts say is a flimsy system for detecting psychological problems in pilots....

DALLAS (AP) -- The case of the JetBlue captain who came unglued at 35,000 feet has focused attention on what some aviation experts say is a flimsy system for detecting psychological problems in pilots....

London and New York will remain the most important world cities for wealthy individuals over the next decade, research suggests.

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A Brazilian hospital says former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's cancerous tumor has been successfully treated and has disappeared....

MIAMI (AP) -- From the T-shirt and hoodie sales to trademarking slogans like "Justice for Trayvon" to the pass-the-hat rallies that bring in thousands, the case of an unarmed black teenager killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer is quickly turning into an Internet-fueled brand....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan have assigned "guardian angels" - troops that watch over their comrades even as they sleep - and have ordered a series of other increased security measures to protect troops against possible attacks by rogue Afghans....

A criminal complaint gives details of an incident in which Clayton Osbon displayed bizarre behavior before being wrestled to the floor by passengers during a flight.