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Trayvon Martin's girlfriend, talking to him on the telephone, heard the teenager saying, "get off, get off" in the moments before his cell phone cut off and he was shot dead, according to a recording of the girl's interview with a prosecutor released Friday.

She might have gone unnoticed through the many years of triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family. Now the spotlight will be cast, sadly, on Mary Richardson Kennedy.

After being photographed without makeup while in Vancouver last month, candid shots of AnnaLynne McCord hit the Web, with with one site noting: "Her facial blemishes were completely visible."

Spain's government called for calm Friday, a day after rating agency Moody's downgraded 16 Spanish banks in the latest sign of distress in Europe.

Authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of an alleged police impersonator who is believed to have killed two motorists in Mississippi, the Tunica County Sherriff's Office said.

The jury will begin deciding the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards Friday, a day after closing arguments concluded in the corruption trial.

Classic rockers Van Halen on Thursday abruptly postponed more than 30 tour dates, following their June 26 concert in New Orleans, representative Anna Loynes said.

A foundation devoted to education about and treatment of flesh-eating bacteria cites government figures estimating 500 to 1,500 cases occur in the United States each year. But media coverage of these cases is rare, so the story of a Georgia grad student fighting the disease may help raise awareness, the foundation's co-founder says.

An undercover video shows horses being struck with sticks and subjected to "soring," an illegal process in which chemicals are placed on their legs to induce the trademark Tennessee Walking Horse high-stepping gait.

On Sunday, 49 decapitated bodies were found on a major highway outside Monterrey, Mexico, which is about 80 miles southwest of the U.S. border.

Mississippi's Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state attorney general's attempt that it reconsider its assent to controversial pardons -- several of them for convicted killers -- issued earlier this year by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour.

Friends may be priceless. But 'friending' is worth $38 a share.

Newly released material in the Trayvon Martin shooting paints the most complete picture yet of how investigators built the case as well as its complexity.

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner drew a hard line in the sand this week, renewing a battle over the debt ceiling unless President Barack Obama agreed to significant budget cuts during what may be a lame-duck session after the November elections.

Thieves must have something against Justice Stephen Breyer.

Ingo Walter and Jennifer Carpenter: Focus on changing the risk incentives of banks rather than the level of executive pay

France's new Socialist government is already causing ripples throughout a Europe struggling to balance government budgets without making ordinary people's lives miserable, but it has created a completely different problem in the Middle East.

Iran is taking on one of the world's biggest Internet giants, threatening to sue over something that is not on its maps.

Orit Avishai says that touting breastfeeding as natural and intuitive creates unnecessary pressure on women who find it difficult

Congressional Republicans are threatening another game of chicken with the debt ceiling. This will get America nowhere, says John Avlon.