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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Make no mistake, the presidential campaign is well under way for the Democrats as well as the Republicans. Vice President Joe Biden called out Mitt Romney and other GOP rivals as being "dead wrong" about the auto bailout, a feisty ramping-up by President Barack Obama's top political surrogate even as the Republicans battle each other through the primaries....

PARIS (AP) -- France's foreign minister has rejected weapons requests by the Syrian rebel forces, saying Thursday that arming the Syrian opposition could lead to catastrophic civil war....

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Thursday challenged city council members who want to create an inspector general to regulate the department's surveillance of Muslims, saying his department needs no additional oversight....

The Norwegian military fear a Hercules transport plane carrying five people has crashed while flying to Sweden during a winter exercise.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- George Clooney's capital blitz to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in border regions between Sudan and South Sudan arrived at the Oval Office on Thursday, and the actor said he came away from a meeting President Barack Obama encouraged that there is high-level interest in doing more to help a region that soon could suffer mass starvation....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- George Clooney's capital blitz to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in border regions between Sudan and South Sudan arrived at the Oval Office on Thursday, and the actor said he came away from a meeting President Barack Obama encouraged that there is high-level interest in doing more to help a region that soon could suffer mass starvation....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO (AP) -- The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet....

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- When drug baron Christopher "Dudus" Coke ruled her slum neighborhood, Gloria Petgrave and her neighbors felt so protected by the area's criminal benefactor that they never locked their doors....

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- When drug baron Christopher "Dudus" Coke ruled her slum neighborhood, Gloria Petgrave and her neighbors felt so protected by the area's criminal benefactor that they never locked their doors....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Long after tiny Miguel Morin disappeared in late 2004, the infant's family still paused to mark the milestones of his life, holding a celebration every year on his birthday and praying for his safe, swift return....