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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norwegians who lost loved ones on Utoya island gasped and sobbed Friday as far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik described in harrowing detail how he gunned down teenagers as they fled in panic or froze before him, paralyzed with fear....

President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are in the cat-and-mouse stage of their national race, chasing each other around the map as they jockey for position....

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney likes to portray himself as a better job creator than President Barack Obama, but he may have a hard time backing up those boasts....

Newt Gingrich's dynamic style in his first months of running the House as speaker in 1995 reduced President Bill Clinton to asserting that he was still relevant. Now President Barack Obama seems to be proclaiming much the same thing....

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

President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are in the cat-and-mouse stage of their national race, chasing each other around the map as they jockey for position....

Once again, Massachusetts is in the cross hairs of a presidential race....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- History is littered with murderers inspired by art: Charles Manson believed the lyrics to the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" were a prophecy that ignited a killing spree. John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman was obsessed with the book "Catcher in the Rye."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- So let's get all the puns out of the way, shall we? It's the issue with legs - four of them. The doggone thing won't go away. Has the presidential race just gone to the dogs? Or are we simply in those dog days between the primary season and the start of the general election?...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- Sudan said Friday its forces drove South Sudanese troops from a contested oil town near the countries' ill-defined border border while the south tried to put a good face on events, saying it was withdrawing....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- As a beer drinker, I knew I was out of my league when I tried to open up the bottle of Purgatory....

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- Upon his release from prison in the mid-1990s, twice-convicted pedophile Sid Landau moved in with friends in Southern California, hoping for a new start and a chance to fade quietly into the background....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed Friday as it was landing at an airport near Islamabad, officials said....

HUEJOTZINGO, Mexico (AP) -- The Popocatepetl volcano shot a heavy plume of ash into the sky southeast of Mexico's capital and spewed glowing rock from its crater at dawn on Friday....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The family of a neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin asked a Florida judge Friday to let him out of jail while he awaits trial, and legal experts said he stands a good chance of being granted bail....

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -- A prominent Bahraini rights activist was released on bail Monday more than three weeks after his arrest on charges linked to anti-government protests in the Gulf kingdom....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Conservative Jewish seminary in Israel has voted to allow gays and lesbians to become rabbis, overcoming years of opposition by many of its own leaders and setting up a new point of contention between the movement and Israel's Orthodox establishment....

BASRA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq began loading crude oil Friday from a second offshore export terminal in the Persian Gulf, part of a major project to boost Iraq's income....

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland is poised to become the first state to ban employers from demanding applicants or workers hand over their log-in information for social media sites like Facebook....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will make a three-state swing next week to call on Congress to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling....