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ATLANTA (AP) -- A kindergartner who threw a tantrum at her small-town Georgia school was taken away in handcuffs, her arms behind her back, in an episode that is firing up the debate over whether teachers and police around the country are overreacting all too often when dealing with disruptive students....

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A conservative organization that helped spread a Florida law that recently gained national attention after the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin said Tuesday that it was abandoning the task force that developed the measure....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional committees are widening their investigations into an alleged U.S. Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia ahead of a recent trip there by President Barack Obama....

Stocks stormed higher Tuesday after promising signals about the profitability of U.S. companies and a strong debt auction by Spain. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for the fourth day in five and posted its biggest gain in a month....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The two top Republicans in Congress explicitly endorsed Mitt Romney on Tuesday to be their party's presidential nominee, as party leaders continued consolidating around their all-but-inevitable candidate in hopes of quickly focusing attention on ousting President Barack Obama in this fall's election....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has eased financial sanctions on Myanmar to enable private U.S.-based groups to do charity work in the impoverished country....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The main figure in a General Services Administration spending scandal took trips to Hawaii, Napa Valley and South Pacific islands, all after the agency's inspector general warned top officials about the excesses....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California state treasurer Bill Lockyer is used to the public spotlight. Just not like this....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama pushed Congress Tuesday to give oil market regulators more muscle to deter price manipulation by speculators, the latest White House response to determined Republican attacks on administration energy policies amid high gas prices at the pump....

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- An Italian tourist abducted in Algeria by al-Qaida's North African branch headed home Tuesday night after spending more than a year in captivity....

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) -- An Italian tourist abducted in Algeria by al-Qaida's North African branch headed home Tuesday night after spending more than a year in captivity....

BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. observers have discovered 13 bound corpses in eastern Syria, many of them apparently shot execution-style, the monitoring mission said Wednesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's push for a Republican version of immigration legislation looks like the answer to the election-year prayers of the GOP - and Mitt Romney....

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Already the one-stop shop for smart and compact home furnishing, IKEA is venturing into the world of technology - with the IKEA TV....

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Gulf Arab states warned Iran Tuesday that they stand united in an escalating dispute over strategic islands controlled by Tehran but also claimed by the United Arab Emirates....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Be happy - it seems to be good for your heart....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Be happy - it seems to be good for your heart....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Be happy - it seems to be good for your heart....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Be happy - it seems to be good for your heart....