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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Republican establishment started to coalesce around Mitt Romney in earnest on Wednesday, with Jeb Bush and other leading Republicans pressuring Rick Santorum to leave the race after a thumping in the Illinois primary....

BOULDER CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Wooing a nation of increasingly angry motorists, President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals are all plunging into gas-pump politics, seeking the upper hand as energy becomes a driving issue in the election campaign....

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Soldiers on Wednesday stormed the state TV and radio station in Mali, as fears of a possible coup gripped the country after a military mutiny spread from a garrison in the capital to one thousands of miles away....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former government space scientist was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years in prison after admitting he tried to sell space and defense secrets to Israel in what turned out to be an FBI sting operation....

BEIRUT (AP) -- The gunmen in eastern Syria, wielding grenade launchers and assault rifles, announced on the Internet they were forming the "God is Great" Brigade and joining the country's rebellion. They swore allegiance to the Free Syrian Army and vowed to topple President Bashar Assad....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It hasn't been pretty, but the Republican establishment, the delegate math, the money and more are increasingly lining up in Mitt Romney's favor in the long and grinding race for the party's presidential nomination....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Plea bargain negotiations between criminals and prosecutors will now come under constitutional scrutiny because a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that convictions can be overturned if defense lawyers don't adequately assist clients in deciding whether to accept such offers....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A day before the public learned the name of the soldier accused of methodically slaughtering 16 civilians in Afghanistan, his lawyer called a news conference and sketched a different portrait of Robert Bales: that of a loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade's injury and sent into combat one too many times....

SEATTLE (AP) -- A day before the public learned the name of the soldier accused of methodically slaughtering 16 civilians in Afghanistan, his lawyer called a news conference and sketched a different portrait of Robert Bales: that of a loving father and devoted husband who had been traumatized by a comrade's injury and sent into combat one too many times....

CAIRO (AP) -- An International Monetary Fund team was due to leave Cairo Wednesday without securing an agreement over a $3.2 billion loan to help boost the nation's battered economy....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- In a tense standoff, French riot police demanded the surrender Wednesday of a gunman who reportedly boasted of shooting seven victims in an al-Qaida-linked terror spree aimed at "bringing France to its knees."...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces another likely Southern setback - this time in Louisiana....

NEWRY, Maine (AP) -- Skiers stripped down to shorts and bikini tops to keep cool Wednesday as they got in a few final sun-drenched, slushy runs, bidding what could be an early goodbye to a season that has disappointed all around....

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni Interior Ministry official says tribesmen have kidnapped three Filipino sailors to press for release of a prisoner....

ARBUTUS, Md. (AP) -- Democrats and Republicans alike are criticizing Mitt Romney after a top adviser likened him to an Etch A Sketch....

CAIRO (AP) -- The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful political group, said Wednesday it is considering running its own candidate in upcoming presidential elections, dropping its previous decision to avoid direct participation in the race....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Authorities said Wednesday they believe a body found outside Williston, N.D., is that of a missing Sidney, Mont., high school math teacher who disappeared Jan. 7 during a morning run....

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Allergy season has come early and hit with a wheezing vengeance in parts of the South and Midwest this year, thanks largely to an unusually warm winter. Abundant pollen is causing watery eyes, sniffles and sneezing....

DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- The store signs of this Old West village are drawn with a typeface reminiscent of "Wanted: Dead or Alive" posters. The streets are paved with bricks that evoke the dusty 1800s....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- Picking 12 people to decide Jerry Sandusky's fate in the child-molestation case that brought down coach Joe Paterno and scandalized Penn State could prove a monumental task in a county where practically everyone went to the university, works there, knows someone there or is a fan of the football team....