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PLANO — Los Angeles police are entitled to audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney, a Texas judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T. Rhoades of Plano granted the request, allowing police to obtain the eight cassette tapes containing hours of talks between Charles ...

PLANO — Los Angeles police are entitled to audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney, a Texas judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda T. Rhoades of Plano granted the request, allowing police to obtain the eight cassette tapes containing hours of talks between Charles ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Two lightning-sparked blazes that merged in a mountainous southwestern New Mexico forest are close to becoming the largest wildfire in state history, fire officials said Tuesday....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- More than 1,200 firefighters are battling the nation's largest wildfire that has charred acre after acre of timber and brush in rugged mountains and canyons of southwestern New Mexico, shrouding parts of the region in smoke....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Eyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes and targeting the most vulnerable in poor farming villages. Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the killing of more than 100 people....

BEIRUT (AP) -- Eyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen slaughtering whole families in their homes and targeting the most vulnerable in poor farming villages. Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's regime over the killing of more than 100 people....

During an interview, CNN's Wolf Blitzer calls Donald Trump 'ridiculous' for his 'doubling down' on the 'birther' issue.

Police in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, are investigating what appears to be a human foot that was sent to the headquarters of the governing federal Conservative Party.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sketching impressive contributions to society in intensely personal terms, President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen political and cultural greats Tuesday, including rocker Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn and novelist Toni Morrison....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Isaac Lamb acknowledges that his five-minute, block-long choreographed build-up to a marriage proposal has upped the stakes for everyone who follows....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Pedro Hernandez has confessed to killing the 6-year-old boy at the heart of one of the nation's most prominent missing-child cases, police say. And he has schizophrenia and a history of hallucinations, his lawyer says....

DETROIT (AP) -- A woman gave birth to a boy Tuesday during an emergency cesarean section, hours before her former boyfriend was charged with attempted murder in a bizarre plot to have her killed allegedly because he didn't want to have another child....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Equipment used for decades at California's troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant might have temporarily severed the plant's emergency power supply during an earthquake....

A 33-year-old man is to appear in court charged with the murder of a teenager in west Belfast 11 years ago.

World powers weighed tough options to end brutality in Syria on Tuesday amid the aftermath of the now-infamous massacre in Houla.

President Obama bestows America's highest civilian honour on 13 recipients, including Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn and Israeli leader Shimon Peres.

The former Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidation by use of a hidden webcam apologized and said he plans to submit to his impending jail sentence this week.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Two Roman-era shipwrecks have been found in deep water off a western Greek island, challenging the conventional theory that ancient shipmasters stuck to coastal routes rather than risking the open sea, an official said Tuesday....

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- The more than 1,200 firefighters who are battling the nation's largest wildfire in rugged mountains and canyons of southwestern New Mexico are racing to build lines to corral the massive blaze....

Dozens of aftershocks hit Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region after an earthquake leaves at least 17 people dead and 350 injured.