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Urgent action is needed to stop drought in the Sahel region of West Africa turning into a humanitarian disaster, the charity Oxfam says.

Italy's foreign minister asks Britain to provide "utmost clarity" within "hours" about the failed attempt to rescue a Briton and Italian in Nigeria, as a row over the handling of the operation deepens.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday directed state officials to begin looking for money to keep the Medicaid Women's Health Program, even if the Obama administration revokes federal funding amid a fight over clinics affiliated with abortion providers....

One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.

BOSTON (AP) -- Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's first traditional campaign trip of the general election, a six-state trek by bus, is aimed at swaying undecided voters living outside America's big cities. To hear his advisers tell it, he'll be visiting the towns President Barack Obama forgot....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man armed with two semiautomatic handguns entered the lobby of a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday and opened fire, killing one person and wounding several others before he was shot dead, apparently by campus police, the mayor said....

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces a tough sell in the Deep South. With Mississippi and Alabama primaries coming up next Tuesday, there's concern that he's too slick, not really a conservative. In a region where the evangelical vote is important, some are skeptical about his Mormon faith....

Terry Jones on Douglas Adams who would have been turning 60

Long division, singing backwards - 10 readers' cures for earworms

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The young American boy sums up what his father does for a living: "You stop the bad guys from being mean."...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- The young American boy sums up what his father does for a living: "You stop the bad guys from being mean."...

SPLENDORA, Texas (AP) -- The abandoned school bus had no engine and no front wheels. But there were crude curtains in the windows, an air conditioner and even bunk beds inside....

SPLENDORA, Texas (AP) -- The abandoned school bus had no engine and no front wheels. But there were crude curtains in the windows, an air conditioner and even bunk beds inside....

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) -- It was an ominous introduction for Republican Newt Gingrich, whose future as a presidential candidate rests in Mississippi and Alabama....

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Mormon leaders have put up a virtual firewall in their massive genealogical database to block out anyone who attempts to access the names of hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims the church has agreed not to posthumously baptize....

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Federal court takes over BP's Gulf oil spill claims

NEW ORLEANS | The man who has overseen the long, complicated job of paying out billions of dollars to the victims of the BP oil spill was relieved of his duties Thursday when a federal court took over the claims ...

Police investigate claims that Newcastle football supporters damaged advertising hoardings during a reserve game at their renamed stadium.

Students at Doane College in Crete, Neb., come from their classes and dorms, pick up their lunches and proceed to step back in time.

The millennials seek out an honest-to-goodness, dead-tree, processed-pulp newspaper, handed out by the paper's staff, to catch the midday dining rush.

"It's strange. These kids are ...

DENVER — Courts are ruling in favor of allowing those with concealed-carry permits to bring their handguns on campus, but universities are figuring out ways to keep the guns out.

Gun rights advocates recently notched major legal victories in Colorado and Oregon, with courts in both states agreeing that ...