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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ann Romney says raising five sons was a full-time job and that her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his role as family breadwinner....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ann Romney says raising five sons was a full-time job and that her husband, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, considered it more important than his role as family breadwinner....

LONDON (AP) -- London's Metropolitan Police said Thursday it is investigating whether conversations on its Anti-Terrorist Hotline had been recorded by hackers....

STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- David Alan Gore was set to be executed Thursday nearly 29 years after murdering 17-year-old Lynn Elliott, whose attempted escape ended a string of rapes and murders that shook the quiet coastal town of Vero Beach....

LONDON (AP) -- She may not be able to match the phenomenal success of the Harry Potter series, but J.K. Rowling has high hopes for "The Casual Vacancy," her first novel for adults. The title was announced Thursday by Little, Brown & Co. along with a brief plot synopsis for the book....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Prosecutors face steep hurdles to win a second-degree murder conviction against neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, experts say....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- State lawmakers are calling for greater oversight of campus police departments after investigators blasted administrators and officers at the University of California, Davis, for pepper-spraying demonstrators - a police action that drew widespread criticism after a video went viral....

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- A Ukrainian court on Thursday sentenced a top ally of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to five years in prison for abuse of office....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The press bus took a wrong turn Thursday. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement....

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers say when it comes to sinking ships, the concept of male chivalry is "a myth" and more men generally survive such disasters than women and children....

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Four Swedes accused of plotting a revenge attack on a newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad will go on trial Friday in Denmark, forcing the normally placid Nordic country to revisit an event it would rather put to rest....

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) -- South Sudan's president said Thursday that the nation will not withdraw its troops that this week entered a disputed border region with Sudan....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Men wearing Afghan police uniforms shot dead two NATO service members Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, the latest in a string of attacks on international troops by Afghan security forces or militants disguised as police....

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Most states are doing a poor job tracking whether their tax breaks for businesses are actually spurring job growth, including some that have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into corporate incentive programs even while grappling with record deficits, according to a new report....

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- After years of failed attempts to repeal the death penalty, Connecticut lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have passed legislation that abolishes the punishment for all future cases....

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Want a peek inside the Democratic playbook as the presidential race shifts fully into general election mode? Just listen to Joe Biden....

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Want a peek inside the Democratic playbook as the presidential race shifts fully into general election mode? Just listen to Joe Biden....

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Want a peek inside the Democratic playbook as the presidential race shifts fully into general election mode? Just listen to Joe Biden....

BEIJING (AP) -- Shaken by the shooting deaths of two Chinese students near the University of Southern California, China is unlikely to slow its pace of sending its students to U.S. universities....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's new interim president took office Thursday, returning the country to constitutional rule three weeks after mutinous soldiers overthrew the nation's democratically elected leader in a coup....