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SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemeni military officials say fighting in two southern flashpoint towns has left 27 al-Qaida fighters and seven soldiers dead, and a top commander says the army is pushing the militants out of the area....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama tried Monday to tarnish Mitt Romney as a corporate titan who got rich by cutting rather than creating jobs, opening a new effort to undercut the Republican's claims that his background of business success is just what America needs in a time of deep economic uncertainty....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Attorneys for John Edwards on Tuesday indicated that their defense in his criminal trial for alleged campaign finance violations is winding down, but they did not say whether the former presidential candidate or his one-time mistress will take the witness stand....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The federal judge overseeing the criminal trial of John Edwards will sharply curtail the testimony of a key defense witness who could have raised doubt about whether the former presidential candidate broke campaign finance laws....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaking softly, nervously and in detail, Brian McNamee testified about the life-changing moment when, he said, he first gave Roger Clemens a "booty shot" of steroids....

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Orlando Morel was 6 years old when he and his mother left Haiti on a crowded small wooden boat destined for America. Now 24, Morel remembers the blue of the ocean everywhere. And the hunger....

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Orlando Morel was 6 years old when he and his mother left Haiti on a crowded small wooden boat destined for America. Now 24, Morel remembers the blue of the ocean everywhere. And the hunger....

ATLANTA (AP) -- The parents of a young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating bacterial infection said Monday they've learned to read lips and are now able to communicate with their daughter despite a breathing tube in her throat....

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are sharpening their economic talking points....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida A&M University's prestigious marching band, scarred by the hazing death of one of its drum majors, won't be taking the field for at least another year....

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions and limit detentions without trial, the two sides announced, resolving a standoff that united Palestinians behind one of their most emotional causes....

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Authorities struggled Monday to identify the 49 people found mutilated and scattered in a pool of blood in a region near the U.S .border where Mexico's two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes....

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The White House is confirming that President Barack Obama won't attend a major summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Russia....

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The White House is confirming that President Barack Obama won't attend a major summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Russia....

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The White House is confirming that President Barack Obama won't attend a major summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Russia....

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) -- The White House is confirming that President Barack Obama won't attend a major summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Russia....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's foreign minister suggested Monday that the country should open its Afghan border to NATO troop supplies, saying the government has made its point by closing the route for nearly six months in retaliation for deadly U.S. airstrikes on its troops....

CHICAGO (AP) -- Police have arrested several anti-war protesters who rallied outside President Barack Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters in a prelude to much larger demonstrations expected during the upcoming NATO summit....

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Gulf Arab leaders have stood together together over the last year to fend off political opposition inspired by the Arab Spring as well as the ambitions of their rival, Iran. The region's envoys met Monday to discuss whether to carry that unity to the next level with proposals that foresee a super-state stretching from Kuwait to Oman....

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept....