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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A never-before-seen $1 million buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker this year will generate the richest top prize in poker history at more than $12 million - and potentially more if additional players get in....

TOMILINO, Russia (AP) -- The Russian children's rights ombudsman says he wants an American woman who sent her young adopted son back to Russia to testify in a Moscow court....

LONDON (AP) -- Rupert Murdoch used his testimony before a U.K. inquiry on Thursday to portray himself as the victim, not perpetrator, of a cover-up over phone hacking - a bold claim unlikely to be accepted by those suing his company for invading their privacy....

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....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration says it is saving taxpayers billions of dollars in improper payments to vendors and contractors, the result of a concerted attempt to reduce errors and instances of fraud in outside expenditures. To better coordinate the effort among executive agencies, it is launching a new online tool to cut waste....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Calling it an "oversight," George Zimmerman's attorney said Friday the neighborhood watch volunteer did not disclose that a website had raised more than $200,000 for his defense, even though his family told the judge they would have trouble coming up with his bond....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Brave, serious, diligent. That's how two Chinese graduate students who were shot and killed near the University of Southern California campus were described during a candlelight vigil attended by hundreds of students....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two months after a 3-year-old endangered orca washed ashore bloodied and bruised in Washington state the cause of her death remains a mystery....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two months after a 3-year-old endangered orca washed ashore bloodied and bruised in Washington state the cause of her death remains a mystery....

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

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The lawyer for a wealthy heiress who provided secret payments intended to help John Edwards testified Friday that the former presidential candidate acknowledged the money had been given for his benefit....

CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos faced a dilemma. He was set to take center stage as host of this weekend's summit of Western Hemisphere leaders in this colonial-era port. But Washington's veto of Cuba as a participant was threatening to torpedo the meeting....

MIAMI (AP) -- When special prosecutor Angela Corey met the parents of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, one of the first things she did with them was pray....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- According to North Korea's official version of things, commemorated on postage stamps and re-enacted in mass performances, the country's first venture into space was 14 years ago, when the "Bright Shining Star 1" satellite roared into orbit and began broadcasting marching music praising Kim Il Sung....

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- According to North Korea's official version of things, commemorated on postage stamps and re-enacted in mass performances, the country's first venture into space was 14 years ago, when the "Bright Shining Star 1" satellite roared into orbit and began broadcasting marching music praising Kim Il Sung....

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man will learn his sentence in a Boston court after being convicted in federal court last year of conspiring to help al-Qaida....

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man will learn his sentence in a Boston court after being convicted in federal court last year of conspiring to help al-Qaida....

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has finally reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations....

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) -- Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has finally reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mitt Romney has come up with an "amazing statistic" and Republicans inside and outside his presidential campaign are doing their utmost to spread it around: "92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women."...