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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Days before U.S. Rep. Donald Payne died of cancer, it wasn't the phone calls of encouragement from presidents that cheered him. It was when a Washington hospital orderly recognized the New Jersey congressman as the only U.S. official to visit his village in the African nation of Eritrea....

HOUSTON — Former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas and made him fabulously wealthy, was convicted Tuesday of bilking his investors out of more than $7 billion through a Ponzi scheme he operated for 20 years.

A day after telling U.S. District Judge David ...

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) -- Voters at Super Tuesday precincts drew a composite sketch, of sorts, of the Republican candidate they'd most like to have to challenge President Barack Obama in the fall. He'd possess Mitt Romney's economic cred, Rick Santorum's heartfelt conservatism and Newt Gingrich's intellect....

COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) -- Voters at Super Tuesday precincts drew a composite sketch, of sorts, of the Republican candidate they'd most like to have to challenge President Barack Obama in the fall. He'd possess Mitt Romney's economic cred, Rick Santorum's heartfelt conservatism and Newt Gingrich's intellect....

The nation's pilots, truckers and train engineers are in need of some shut-eye. And not just one of those gulps of instant energy.

According to a major new study from the National Sleep Foundation, these transportation operators are sleepier than average American employees, and the lack of rest puts them ...

Payments for causing injury are unacceptable. Gregg Williams should never be seen in the NFL again.

Bryan Appleyard on the problem with neo-atheism and Matt Ridley on the problem with wind energy.

In 2008, 80% of the Republican delegates were chosen before March. This year, only 13% were.

The Advertising Standards Authority clears a Mars campaign involving Rio Ferdinand and model Katie Price in its first Twitter-related investigation.

The financier is convicted but his lawyer still has a good gig.

The AG discovers the virtue of executive power in wartime.

Tim Harrison from the British Trust for Ornithology reveals the birds to look out for in your gardens throughout the year.

Another industry wants to keep its taxpayer subsidies.

LONDON (AP) -- How do you sum up the work of songwriter Robert B. Sherman? Try one word: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."...

'Sometimes they find my mansions. But who can touch me now?'

Making rankings public undermines the trust educators need to build collaborative teams.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger hopes the spirit his side showed in their defeat by AC Milan will see them back in the Champions League next season.

An elderly man dies in a house fire in County Antrim.

Ryanair is reprimanded for a "denigratory" advertising campaign that falsely implied rival Thomas Cook was likely to go into administration.

How would Iran respond to an Israeli attack