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Iranians head to the polls Friday in a parliamentary election marking the first nationwide balloting since a disputed vote triggered massive protests nearly three years ago.

A day after overrunning the rebel stronghold of Baba Amr, Syrian forces executed 14 civilians there Friday, opposition groups said, even as an international aid convoy said it was waiting to get into the city.

Montana's chief federal judge has offered his apologies for forwarding a racist e-mail aimed at President Barack Obama. The judge also initiated a judicial misconduct investigation against himself.

Oil prices spiked to their highest levels since 2008 on fears that tensions with Iran have the potential to disrupt supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.

It's fairly clear the federal investigation into Penn State University won't be a duplication of the grand jury probe that led to charges of more than 50 counts of child sex abuse against Jerry Sandusky.

Frank Hall identified himself Thursday as an assistant football coach and study hall teacher, but not a hero -- as many have been calling him, since he chased the teen who authorities shot dead three fellow students earlier this week in an Ohio high school cafeteria.

Polarizing and brazen, the conservative activist and blogger, who died today, showed how the Internet could be used to get around the echo chamber of mainstream media

Toyota engineers found a software problem that caused "sudden unintended acceleration" in a test vehicle during trials, according to a document translated for CNN.

Montana's chief federal judge has offered his apologies for forwarding a racist e-mail aimed at President Barack Obama. Liberal advocacy groups demanded that U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull to resign.

Air traffic controllers at the Philadelphia International Airport had to scramble to avoid an accident Thursday after spotting a Jeep on a runway where a passenger plane was coming in to land.

Mitt Romney won the Wyoming caucuses as the Republican presidential campaign headed toward next week's Super Tuesday showdown, with one candidate acknowledging Thursday he needs a victory to keep his campaign alive.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to kill a controversial proposal pushed by Republicans that would have allowed employers to opt out of providing health care coverage they disagree with on moral grounds.

A group of American and British pro-democracy activists accused of fomenting unrest in Egypt will be leaving the country "shortly," an Interior Ministry spokesman said Thursday.

Breitbart died of natural causes in Los Angeles, his attorney says. Breitbart gained fame, in part, for his post of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner's now infamous Twitter photos.

Weary residents may get some good news Thursday as the monster storm system that already battered many Midwestern states and caused a dozen deaths is expected to weaken.

Syria is burning -- scorched for nearly a year by tenacious political resistance, a merciless security crackdown and cries for democracy.

Michael Wolraich says the common enemy of secular humanism unites evangelicals and conservative Catholics in a nontraditional alliance. It might not last.

A gunman in an Afghan National Army uniform and another man shot and killed two service members with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, authorities said.

President Barack Obama hosted a dinner to salute soldiers recently back from Iraq -- marking his first major tribute to the veterans since officially withdrawing all troops from the nation.