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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States warned Friday it would not send food aid to North Korea if it goes ahead with a rocket launch next month....

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Nine men have been indicted in a fraternity hazing case on charges that they beat two Youngstown State University pledges to the point that they wound up hospitalized....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A California doctor has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder in the prescription drug overdose deaths of three patients....

Police arrested actor George Clooney and others Friday during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.

TONGCHANG-RI, North Korea (AP) -- North Korean space officials have moved all three stages of a long-range rocket into position for a controversial launch, vowing Sunday to push ahead with their plan in defiance of international warnings against violating a ban on missile activity....

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A Turkish military helicopter crashed into a house near the Afghan capital Friday, killing 12 Turkish soldiers on board and four Afghan civilians on the ground, officials said....

20 years ago, first lady-to-be Hillary Clinton's "cookies" comment roiled moms and stoked political debate, Kirsten Swinth says. But in hindsight, it reflected the dawn of the working family

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The military on Friday ordered soldiers in a section of southern France to wear civilian clothes when off-base for extra security following deadly, unsolved shootings of paratroopers in the area....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The military on Friday ordered soldiers in a section of southern France to wear civilian clothes when off-base for extra security following deadly, unsolved shootings of paratroopers in the area....

TOULOUSE, France (AP) -- The military on Friday ordered soldiers in a section of southern France to wear civilian clothes when off-base for extra security following deadly, unsolved shootings of paratroopers in the area....

The UN and Arab League envoy on Syria, Kofi Annan, says he is sending a team to Damascus to discuss setting up a new international monitoring mission.

A US student who used a webcam to secretly film his room-mate in a gay encounter is found guilty of hate crime and invasion of privacy.

LONDON (AP) -- Archaeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a 7th-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse full of glass beads....

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Belgium held a national day of mourning Friday for the 28 victims of a school bus crash in Switzerland, ringing church bells and stopping trains and factories to show solidarity with heartbroken parents....

Photos from around the world this week

ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- A South Carolina mother pleaded guilty Friday to killing her two young sons by suffocating them and putting their bodies into a car, letting it roll into a river. The crime was remarkably similar to what Susan Smith did to her two boys decades ago in this state....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he's at "the end of the rope," and a majority of Americans feel the same way....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum says oil drillers in the Gulf of Mexico are being slammed by "worse and worse and worse" delays in getting federal approval even as gas prices go through the roof. Actually, the wait for permits is getting better and better. Newt Gingrich boasts that small donors are powering his Republican presidential campaign. In reality, one deep-pocketed financial angel and other big money people have been doing loads of heavy lifting, too....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum says oil drillers in the Gulf of Mexico are being slammed by "worse and worse and worse" delays in getting federal approval even as gas prices go through the roof. Actually, the wait for permits is getting better and better. Newt Gingrich boasts that small donors are powering his Republican presidential campaign. In reality, one deep-pocketed financial angel and other big money people have been doing loads of heavy lifting, too....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rick Santorum says oil drillers in the Gulf of Mexico are being slammed by "worse and worse and worse" delays in getting federal approval even as gas prices go through the roof. Actually, the wait for permits is getting better and better. Newt Gingrich boasts that small donors are powering his Republican presidential campaign. In reality, one deep-pocketed financial angel and other big money people have been doing loads of heavy lifting, too....