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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday announced the approval of a major natural gas drilling project in Utah that the Obama administration says will support more than 4,000 jobs during its development while safeguarding critical wildlife habitat and air quality....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Airport security procedures, with their intrusive pat downs and body scans, don't need to be toughened despite the discovery of a new al-Qaida airline bomb plot using more sophisticated technology than an earlier attempt, congressional and security officials said Tuesday....

Police arrested the wife and mother of Adam Mayes, the suspect in the kidnapping of Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters. Bain and her oldest girl have been found dead.

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Now backed by a parliamentary supermajority, Benjamin Netanyahu has tremendous room to maneuver on Israel's most pressing issues: peace with the Palestinians, possible war with Iran, and the growing rift at home between religious and secular Jews....

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- A South African judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to investigate whether Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government committed human rights abuses, saying it would benefit Zimbabweans tortured in their homeland and South Africans determined to see their own government live up to its international responsibilities....

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Officials are confirming that artist Thomas Kinkade died from an accidental overdose of alcohol and prescription tranquilizers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Members of Congress expressed doubts Tuesday on plans by the Department of Veterans Affairs' to hire 1,900 additional workers to improve access to mental health care....

Brendan Boland, one of the victims of paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth, says his healing and that of other victims cannot begin while Cardinal Sean Brady remains as Catholic Primate of all-Ireland.

Maurice Sendak illustrated nearly 100 books and won accolades for his fanciful tales. One critic called him the "the Picasso of children's literature."

Kurt Nimmo | Suspicious incident will be used to subject air travelers to additional mandatory government molestation.

LONDON (AP) -- Former British Prime Minister John Major said Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch tried to influence his government's dealings with the European Union, even hinting that the politician could lose the support of the media mogul's newspapers if he didn't change direction....

Reuters | Wall street takes a plunge to its lowest in 2 months waiting to see if Europe will be able to fend of deep economic crisis.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters filed into polling stations Tuesday to decide whether to give Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett a rematch against Republican Gov. Scott Walker in next month's rare recall election or whether to back one of Barrett's fellow Democrats....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A U.N. nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed and a colleague was injured in a car crash Tuesday near a reactor site in central Iran, state media and the nuclear watchdog agency said....

By David Feith Will 2012 mark the first time a rabbi wins election to Congress?

Daily Mail | U.S. Border Patrol unveiled it's new strategy Tuesday that moves its emphasis away from long fences to unmanned aerial vehicles and helicopters.

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has agreed to end her nearly three-week hunger strike and receive medical treatment, her spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Steve Watson | Agents then demanded pat-down to make sure fruit juice, insulin was "not an explosive".

NEW YORK (AP) -- Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood....