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WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Afghan soldier shot to death a 22-year-old Marine at an outpost in southwestern Afghanistan last month in a previously undisclosed case of apparent Afghan treachery that marked at least the seventh killing of an American military member by his supposed ally in the past six weeks, Marine officials said....

A Standard Chartered Bank employee is detained by Chinese authorities as part of a probe against one of her clients.

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....

A group of Cuban dissidents who had occupied a church in Havana ahead of the Pope's visit have been removed from the building.

Scientists in Japan measure the brain activity of honeybees as they form a killer swarm around their worst enemy, the giant hornet.

All this angst over "pink slime" has made one thing clear: We don't always know what we're getting when we bite into a big juicy burger....

All this angst over "pink slime" has made one thing clear: We don't always know what we're getting when we bite into a big juicy burger....

All this angst over "pink slime" has made one thing clear: We don't always know what we're getting when we bite into a big juicy burger....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is seeking to put the best face on an Afghanistan policy called into question by the apparent shelving of talks with insurgents and announcement from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul that it will not support the fielding of U.S. forces deep into rural villages, a key goal of the current military strategy....

The suspect in last weekend's shooting deaths of 16 Afghan civilians is Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a military source and a senior defense official said.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Isle Royale National Park's gray wolves, one of the world's most closely monitored predator populations, are at their lowest ebb in more than a half-century and could die out within a few years, scientists said Friday....

A Welsh Conservative MP says David Cameron is "merely tolerating" devolution in Wales and the assembly must have tax-raising powers.

On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court opens three days or oral argument on whether or not ObamaCare is unconstitutional.

Houston (AP) -- Eight years after her baby boy disappeared, Auboni Champion-Morin is looking forward to embracing the child authorities believe is her son....

Christopher "Dudus" Coke is due to be sentenced on Friday at a court in New York after pleading guilty to racketeering charges.

NEW YORK (AP) -- As spring approaches, Occupy Wall Street protesters who mostly hibernated all winter are beginning to stir with plans for renewed demonstrations six months after the movement was born....

The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans at the weekend had been unhappy to be sent to serve in Afghanistan, a Seattle lawyer says.

Plaid Cymru's new leader will take on the Labour Party with a "far more aggressive strategy", her campaign manager says.