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MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities prepared Friday to enter a fire-gutted, California apartment where they expected to find a suspect in the shooting deaths of a deputy and a civilian after a daylong standoff....

US President Barack Obama releases his tax return for 2011, as he seeks to make taxation a key election issue with Republican foes.

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) -- Records show that an Ohio couple who died after the husband killed his wife and 10-year-old daughter and then was fatally shot by police had just recently emerged from bankruptcy....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The plan to deport Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children from Pakistan ran into more bureaucratic hurdles on Wednesday, making it uncertain when they would leave, their lawyer said....

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- One year since U.S. commandos flew into this Pakistani army town and killed Osama bin Laden, Islamabad has failed to answer tough questions over whether its security forces were protecting the world's most wanted terrorist....

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama, determined to connect his upcoming Latin American travels to voters back home, told port workers in Florida that he was headed to Colombia to find more customers for U.S. companies to help fuel the broader economic recovery at home....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A federal judge has denied a request to block discharge proceedings of a Camp Pendleton Marine who faces being kicked out of the military and loss of benefits for criticizing President Barack Obama on Facebook....

There has been international condemnation after North Korea launched a long range rocket this morning amid claims it was a cover for testing missile technology.

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad defended his government's crackdown on opponents Sunday, saying a doctor performing messy emergency surgery does not have blood on his hands if he is trying to save a patient....

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The United States is drastically reducing the number of aid projects in Pakistan as part of reforms aimed at improving the distribution of billions of dollars in funding, the top U.S. aid official said Friday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An internal government memo released Friday shows officials of the General Services Administration were aware of a spending problem months before the scandal burst into public view this month....

Watch live BBC coverage of the men's World Triathlon in San Diego. (UK users only).

The UN Security Council deplores the launch by North Korea of a rocket and satellite which broke up shortly after take-off.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An FBI spokesman says they're still looking for someone who shot and killed two Coast Guard members on an island off Alaska's mainland....

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The University of California, San Diego, has agreed to overhaul practices for handling complaints of racial harassment after a series of campus incidents that targeted blacks two years ago....

British equestrian star Pippa Funnell misses the London Games after seeing two of her top rides suffer injuries.

A Christian group who had their advertisement pulled from London buses after it was described as anti-gay is looking at taking legal action.

The fuel tanker drivers' dispute could end within days if the Unite union accepts a proposed deal which it will discuss next week.

MADRID (AP) -- Spain's benchmark borrowing rate hit its highest level Tuesday since the country adopted the euro currency, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded 18 banks on Tuesday and investors continued to find more questions than answers in the country's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector by tapping a (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) eurozone bailout fund....

MADRID (AP) -- Spanish stocks sank and its borrowing costs rose Friday after the government released data showing the country's banks borrowed a record (EURO)316.3 billion ($415.9 billion) from the European Central Bank in March....