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CHICAGO (AP) -- Stands up to unions? Check. Not afraid to chop government budgets? You bet. Cut taxes? Done that....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Europe's economic crisis could send shock waves roaring across the Atlantic that would drag down the fragile U.S. economy and threaten President Barack Obama's hopes for a second term. The president demonstrated Friday just how deeply he's worried about that - and how little he can do to prevent it....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Europe's economic crisis could send shock waves roaring across the Atlantic that would drag down the fragile U.S. economy and threaten President Barack Obama's hopes for a second term. The president demonstrated Friday just how deeply he's worried about that - and how little he can do to prevent it....

LONDON (AP) -- A British journalist claims Syrian rebels set him up to die in no man's land near the Lebanese border, saying Friday he believes they wanted to use his death at the hands of government forces to score propaganda points....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After eight weeks, jurors will finally hear closing arguments in the Roger Clemens perjury trial Tuesday. They're expected to begin deliberations later in the day....

The Jamaican drug lord who turned a Kingston neighborhood into a war zone while resisting arrest in 2010 was sentenced in New York to 23 years in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Friday.

Fans pay tribute to Betsey Johnson.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge sentenced a Pakistani-born Chicago taxi driver on Friday to 7 1/2 years in prison for attempting to send money to a terrorist with alleged links to al-Qaida, telling the 58-year-old he had violated a citizenship oath made to God promising never to do harm to the United States....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- One of the Pennsylvania men convicted of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers has been sentenced to time served and five years' probation....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Two Pennsylvania men convicted of harassing Sarah Palin's Alaska lawyers were sentenced Friday to time served and five years' probation, with the proceedings briefly halted after a short outburst in court by one of the defendants....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's Supreme Court has issued decisions shaking up the leadership of two small political parties, potentially preventing them from backing opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's Supreme Court has issued decisions shaking up the leadership of two small political parties, potentially preventing them from backing opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's Supreme Court has issued decisions shaking up the leadership of two small political parties, potentially preventing them from backing opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles....

Coach Franciszek Smuda says Poland were "paralysed by the pressure" as Greece fought back from a goal down to draw 1-1 in the opening match of Euro 2012.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Criminal charges won't be filed in a Christmas morning house fire that killed three girls and their grandparents, a blaze blamed on a bag of discarded fireplace ashes, a Connecticut prosecutor said Friday....

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he will accept "non-member state" status at the UN, if Israel chooses not to re-start peace talks.

Eighteen victims of child pornography were rescued during a nationwide sweep by federal law enforcement agencies, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Friday.

Chicago Tribune | Chicago cab driver faces up to 90 months for providing a few hundred dollars to a Kashmiri nationalist group connected to al-Qaeda.

A Florida man says he received death threats after being given the mobile phone number previously used by the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin.

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Investigators combed through a 4-mile rural area in central Florida on Friday trying to determine what caused a single-engine plane to break apart in midair and crash into a swampy area, killing a Kansas businessman, his wife and their four young children....