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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Republican Governors Association says Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes should signal party conservatives to unify behind Mitt Romney....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Republican Governors Association says Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes should signal party conservatives to unify behind Mitt Romney....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the Republican Governors Association says Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the presidential sweepstakes should signal party conservatives to unify behind Mitt Romney....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A trade group representing nursing homes has given the Utah Republican Party $175,000 over the past year, money that could help Sen. Orrin Hatch stave off a tea party challenge and win re-election....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- Defiant North Korea fueled up a rocket Wednesday in preparation for what now appears to be an imminent liftoff while the country's young leader strengthened his grip on power with a new title making him the nation's top political official....

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was named to what appears to be a top post in the ruling Workers' Party at a special political conference Wednesday, while his late father was declared its "eternal" general secretary....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is said to be losing weight, suffering from high levels of stress and unable even to perform the simple task of buying a soda at a grocery store because of the intense public scrutiny he is under, his former lawyers say....

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan (AP) -- Ice hockey is hardly the most suitable sport for a desert nation where temperatures can soar as high as 50 degrees Celsius (120 degrees Fahrenheit)....

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Tunisia's president is set to mark on Wednesday 10 years since an al-Qaida truck bomb killed 21 people at a synagogue on the island of Djerba....

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan said battles were raging Wednesday along its border with South Sudan after southern troops attacked an oil-rich town in the area. The fighting raised the specter of an all-out confrontation between the two countries already facing off over undetermined borders and how to share oil revenues....

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Preventing pilots from losing consciousness from sudden high gravitational forces was among a set of recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board to try to avoid a repeat of last year's horrific air race crash in Reno that left 11 people dead and 70 spectators seriously injured....

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Preventing pilots from losing consciousness from sudden high gravitational forces was among a set of recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board to try to avoid a repeat of last year's horrific air race crash in Reno that left 11 people dead and 70 spectators seriously injured....

PARIS (AP) -- Raymond Aubrac, one of the last major figures of the French Resistance, whose parents died at Auschwitz during World War II, has died....

SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (AP) -- The Springfield that exists in the mind of Matt Groening is a kind of American everything - hick pit stop, rosy-cheeked Rockwellian font of family values, cesspool of corruption, ethnic melting pot, boomtown gone to rust....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The University of California is set to release a long-awaited report on the pepper-spraying of student demonstrators by UC Davis police last fall....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The University of California is set to release a long-awaited report on the pepper-spraying of student demonstrators by UC Davis police last fall....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Striving to reduce the trash it sends to landfills, Seattle has banned foam take-out containers and plastic bags, told residents they must recycle cardboard and compost food scraps, and set up a registry for people to opt-out of getting phonebooks....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Striving to reduce the trash it sends to landfills, Seattle has banned foam take-out containers and plastic bags, told residents they must recycle cardboard and compost food scraps, and set up a registry for people to opt-out of getting phonebooks....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Striving to reduce the trash it sends to landfills, Seattle has banned foam take-out containers and plastic bags, told residents they must recycle cardboard and compost food scraps, and set up a registry for people to opt-out of getting phonebooks....

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Serbia's police say they have detained nine people accused of setting fire to the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade in 2008 during riots against Kosovo's independence....