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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The killing of a Chilean diplomat's teenage daughter by police is reigniting concerns among Venezuelans about excessive force by officers and their alleged involvement in rampant violent crime....

BERLIN (AP) -- A far-reaching majority of lawmakers elected former East German pro-democracy activist Joachim Gauck as Germany's new president Sunday....

DENVER (AP) -- Officials are grappling with a problem no one's sure how to solve: How do you tell if someone is too stoned to drive?...

SEATTLE (AP) -- With formal charges looming against his client within days, the lawyer for an Army sergeant suspected in the horrific nighttime slaughter of 16 Afghan villagers was flying Sunday to Kansas and getting ready to meet for the first time with the 10-year veteran....

A Taliban commander doubts just one soldier carried out a massacre last week that left 16 Afghan civilians dead, saying the "puppet regime" is blind to the truth of what happened.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Conventional wisdom is that Republican front-runner Mitt Romney will clinch the nomination before the national convention in Tampa this summer. But no one sent challenger Rick Santorum that memo....

DENVER (AP) — Angeline Chilton says she can't drive unless she smokes pot.

The suburban Denver woman uses medical marijuana to ease multiple sclerosis symptoms and says she never would get behind the wheel right after smoking. But her case underscores a problem that no one's sure how to solve: ...

We possess a dual nature that includes selfish striving and a nobler "groupishness": 90% chimp and 10% bee. Gary Rosen reviews "The Righteous Mind."

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- An alternate juror in the trial of a former Rutgers University student convicted in a webcam spying episode that ended in his gay roommate's suicide said he disagrees with the verdict....

Researchers believe they have identified why a mutation in a particular gene can lead to obesity.

DETROIT (AP) -- For nearly two decades, Carol Bart's untested rape kit collected dust in a police evidence room. Her attacker, who kidnapped her from outside her Dallas apartment and repeatedly raped her at knifepoint, had spent time in prison by coincidence, but not for sexually assaulting Bart....

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says his team's display in their 5-0 win at Wolves was "adequate".

A digger is used in an attempt to steal money from a cash machine at an industrial estate in Tamworth.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An Occupy Wall Street protester says police gave demonstrators little warning before kicking them out of a New York City park overnight and that officers beat several of them during the arrests....

Television adverts for foods which are high in fat, sugar or salt should be banned across the UK before the 9pm watershed, Scotland's public health minister has said.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- While most Americans are familiar with the Underground Railroad that helped Southern slaves escape north before the Civil War, the first clandestine path to freedom ran for more than a century in the opposite direction....

GORENTAS, Turkey (AP) -- Syrian rebels are regrouping despite some bitter defeats at the hands of President Bashar Assad's regime, and a top priority is finding weapons and ammunition to boost their firepower, a man who identified himself as a low-ranking rebel commander told The Associated Press....