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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't expect Mitt Romney to spend a lot of time trying to get voters to like him this fall....

LONDON (AP) -- Olympic doping officials are considering whether to tweak their tests after a recent British study showed green tea might hide testosterone from the standard test used to spot it....

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has issued a rare and explicit denunciation of priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying they were being selfish in disobeying his authority....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- When Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat stares out at his city, the one-time venture capitalist sees fresh opportunity: He believes he can turn Jerusalem into one of the world's leading tourist destinations, on par with New York, Paris and London....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Nursing student Ahmad Sayeed was sitting in his class at tiny Oikos University when a gunman burst through the back entrance of the lecture hall and held a terrified school receptionist hostage....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page criticizing the Obama administration is now backed by a team of lawyers and federal congressmen as he fights to stay in the military and test its age-old policy of limiting the free speech of service members....

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page criticizing the Obama administration is now backed by a team of lawyers and federal congressmen as he fights to stay in the military and test its age-old policy of limiting the free speech of service members....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A rocket hit the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat near the Egyptian and Jordanian borders Thursday, Israeli police said. Rocket launches are rare in this part of Israel and police suspect that it came from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It will take more than the flip of a switch to replace power lost from the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant....

DENVER (AP) -- The Colorado State Forest Service conducted a 50-acre prescribed burn on March 22, part of a normal plan to consume fuel in the rugged, pine-filled foothills southwest of Denver. It wasn't far from site of the monstrous Hayman Fire 10 years ago, and this burn was a precaution....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Floyd "Creeky" Creekmore is one of the quieter acts in the circus, his larger-than-life clown shoes shuffling methodically as he works the crowd, igniting surprised giggles and slack-jawed wonder from children that look up to encounter Creekmore's wrinkled eyes smiling through thick makeup....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Floyd "Creeky" Creekmore is one of the quieter acts in the circus, his larger-than-life clown shoes shuffling methodically as he works the crowd, igniting surprised giggles and slack-jawed wonder from children that look up to encounter Creekmore's wrinkled eyes smiling through thick makeup....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Some people think the government can't get it right even when it's doing wrong....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 29 men two years ago Thursday will be permanently sealed with concrete, the mine's new owner said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Don't expect Mitt Romney to spend a lot of time trying to get voters to like him this fall....

TOKYO (AP) -- As the U.S. and its allies decry North Korea's planned rocket launch, they're also rushing to capitalize on the rare opportunity it presents to assess the secretive nation's ability to strike beyond its shores....

DERA ISMAIL KHAN (AP) -- Taliban militants beheaded two Pakistani soldiers and hung their heads from wooden poles in a town in the country's northwest on Monday, a day after they killed nine soldiers in an ambush there, officials said....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A young Arab woman who won a popular Israeli music competition has become an unlikely star, capturing hearts in a country where suspicion and hostility often mark relations between Arabs and the Jewish majority....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stung by high gasoline costs, outlying suburbs that sprouted in the heady 2000s are now seeing their growth fizzle to historic lows, halting American city dwellers' decades-long exodus to sprawling homes in distant towns....