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As the country heads into the Memorial Day weekend, there are still almost 1.5 million U.S soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines deployed in war zones or combat missions worldwide, and the 3,000th coalition service member, a U.S. sailor, has died in Afghanistan.

Poll results and strong fundraising portend a tight presidential election in November. The rising heat of political rhetoric by the candidates and their surrogates guarantees it will be nasty and brutal.

An American Airlines passenger was restrained Friday after his flight landed in Miami, a spokeswoman for the Miami International Airport said.

Pres. Obama decries Mitt Romney's rhetoric, saying his time with Bain is not a qualification for becoming president.

It was a mini Twitter town hall.

China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents.

Inspectors found uranium in Iran enriched up to 27%, a level that's higher than previous ones, a U.N. nuclear watchdog agency report said Friday.

Jurors began their sixth day of deliberations Friday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz explains why Romney's record at Bain Capital is "fair game" for the Obama campaign.

The private spacecraft SpaceX Dragon docked with the International Space Station today, a milestone in a new era of commercial space flight.

Whatever the outcome of Facebook's public offering of stock, the social network has already enriched quite a few ? as well as famously offered many hundreds of millions of people a new virtual social world. Yet critics claim that Facebook is hastening the demise of privacy, which as the cliché goes, is already on life support.

CNN's John King goes over the battle ground states in the presidential race.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood predicted Friday that its presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi will contest a run-off vote with former regime figure Ahmed Shafik, as counting in the country's landmark election got under way.

The captain and second officer of a container ship that ran aground last year, resulting in New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster, have been jailed for seven months.

The new French president, François Hollande, arrived in Kabul on Friday to meet with French troops stationed in the country and hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Pedro Hernandez was arraigned via video from Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, where a source said he's on suicide watch. Etan Patz, 6, vanished 33 years ago Friday.

A racially charged demonstration against the Israeli government's handling of immigration from Africa turned violent Wednesday night as protesters attacked foreign workers, shattered car windows and vandalized a shop owned by a Sudanese migrant.

"Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion," forecasters warn has Hurricane Bud nears Mexico's Pacific coast.

Three children -- all apparently 3 years old or younger -- were found in a shed among a group of homeless people. Police in Oregon now say they located the mother.