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Mississippi's Supreme Court upheld 214 pardons issued by Gov. Haley Barbour, saying the decision on if procedures were followed rests "solely with the governor."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They've long been known as devil dogs, leathernecks and "the first to fight." But U.S. Marines, with their self-described expertise in "killing people and breaking things," now want to promote their kinder side as well....

A controversial campaign to capture accused Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony wins the praise of the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After reporting that it had found 102 more misplaced headstones or markers and 21 graves missing markers at its cemeteries, the Veterans Affairs Department told lawmakers Thursday that it's trying to prevent future errors by requiring contractors to keep headstones at gravesites undergoing renovations and by conducting daily inspections....

Britain's Fran Halsall sets the quickest 100m freestyle time of 2012 at the British Swimming Championships in London.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

Several people were shot Thursday by one or possibly two assailants inside the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, according to a Pittsburgh university.

Yoga championships, the curse of live TV and Prince Harry having fun. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

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....

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Natural causes led to the death of a former Philadelphia archdiocese leader the day after he was ruled competent to testify at the child endangerment trial of a longtime aide, according to a county coroner who investigated after a suburban prosecutor deemed the timing peculiar....

LONDON (AP) -- A Briton and an Italian held hostage in Nigeria by kidnappers claiming ties to al-Qaida were killed before a rescue operation could free them, authorities said Thursday. Britain said the men were killed by their captors, while a Nigerian official said the two apparently died in the crossfire during a joint rescue attempt....

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend....

STANLEY, Falkland Islands (AP) -- Falkland Islanders are still bristling over the invasion by Argentina 30 years ago, but they're not complaining about its aftermath....

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- If Joseph Kony lived in relative anonymity before this week, he's an Internet star now....

Indigenous Ecuadoreans march against a major Chinese mining project in the Amazon, while government supporters stage a counter-protest.

NEW YORK (AP) -- In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as "Sabu" urged followers to resist the U.S. government and its agents....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as "Sabu" urged followers to resist the U.S. government and its agents....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as "Sabu" urged followers to resist the U.S. government and its agents....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Showing that they can on occasion work together, House lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a package of bills making it easier for small businesses and startups to raise the capital they need to grow and hire new workers....