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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Big Tobacco's success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in other states as votes trended toward the opposition....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman and Mira Sorvino urged an end to violence against women at a concert Wednesday night to support the U.N. agency that promotes equality for women and an end to attacks against millions of women and girls....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman and Mira Sorvino urged an end to violence against women at a concert Wednesday night to support the U.N. agency that promotes equality for women and an end to attacks against millions of women and girls....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas teen pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his sleeping sister and was sentenced to 45 years in prison for a crime he still hasn't fully explained....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un made his second speech at a major public event since taking power in December, addressing a children's rally aimed at winning a new generation's support....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un made his second speech at a major public event since taking power in December, addressing a children's rally aimed at winning a new generation's support....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pulitzer Prize winner is the nation's first poet laureate to hail from the South since the initial one - Robert Penn Warren - was named by the Library of Congress in 1986....

BEIJING (AP) -- State media reported that staff at a religious school in heavily Muslim far western China set off explosives to fend off a police raid and that 12 children were burned. An overseas rights group, however, blamed tear gas used by paramilitary forces for the injuries....

BEIJING (AP) -- State media reported that staff at a religious school in heavily Muslim far western China set off explosives to fend off a police raid and that 12 children were burned. An overseas rights group, however, blamed tear gas used by paramilitary forces for the injuries....

BEIJING (AP) -- State media reported that staff at a religious school in heavily Muslim far western China set off explosives to fend off a police raid and that 12 children were burned. An overseas rights group, however, blamed tear gas used by paramilitary forces for the injuries....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A jury dominated by people with Penn State loyalties was selected Wednesday to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child sexual abuse scandal that rocked the university and led to football coach Joe Paterno's downfall....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A jury dominated by people with Penn State loyalties was selected Wednesday to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child sexual abuse scandal that rocked the university and led to football coach Joe Paterno's downfall....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's defense minister said Wednesday he was protecting the confidentiality of government communications after a newspaper reported he left his delegation's laptop computers and cellphones behind before flying to mainland China....

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's defense minister said Wednesday he was protecting the confidentiality of government communications after a newspaper reported he left his delegation's laptop computers and cellphones behind before flying to mainland China....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....