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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the mayor of New Jersey's largest city are channeling the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry in a video parody that spoofs the mayor's heroics and Christie's vice presidential potential....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden is pouncing on Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney in swing state Ohio, casting him as a corporate raider more interested in making profits than in the needs of workers....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language....

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A retired state judge supported by marijuana advocates has defeated a former federal prosecutor in a Democratic primary race for attorney general that focused on Oregon's medical marijuana law....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli company has written off its entire 12.5 percent investment in the company that sold Egyptian natural gas to Israel before Egypt terminated the exports....

CHICAGO (AP) -- A groom whose bride had sought to keep their impending wedding secret from most of her family is wanted on a murder charge after his new wife was found stabbed to death in a bathtub in her suburban Chicago home just hours after the ceremony, still dressed in silver sequins....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Clashes between government troops and al-Qaida fighters left 19 people dead in southern Yemen on Wednesday, military officials said....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday....

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race - with four short words....

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- After months of silence, George W. Bush finally weighed on the presidential race - with four short words....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The John Edwards corruption trial appears to be winding down without testimony, so far, from the former presidential candidate or his one-time mistress....

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A Congolese general already sought on an international arrest warrant for his alleged use of child soldiers during an earlier conflict has forcibly recruited another 149 boys and teenagers since April, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation published Wednesday....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tornadoes battered their school and their homes. Their spring break was filled with cleanup and recovery work that has only just begun. But for one night, students at a southern Indiana high school hope to put all that aside to enjoy an evening that one of country music's biggest acts planned just for them....

SOMERS, Conn. (AP) -- A man on Connecticut's death row for the murder of a suburban mother and her two daughters says he believes the only way he will be put to death is if he volunteers for the lethal injection....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Twenty years after his troops began brutally ethnically cleansing Bosnian towns and villages of non-Serbs, Gen. Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal accused of 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes....

BEIJING (AP) -- A blind Chinese activist who sparked a diplomatic crisis by fleeing into the U.S. Embassy last month filled out a Chinese passport application and posed for a photo Wednesday, moving forward in his bid to study in the United States....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat - though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it - popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- After an improbable Nebraska primary victory, state Sen. Deb Fischer has emerged from relative obscurity to take the mantle as one of the GOP's best hopes for picking up a U.S. Senate seat - though she'll have to beat a famous Democratic politician to do it - popular former Sen. Bob Kerrey....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday....