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Police were investigating the deaths of three Oregon children and their parents as an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday after authorities found the bodies of the children and their mother at a burned home and then that of their father in a car hours later.
Authorities ha...

At 26, Saed Qasrawi is among the oldest students at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.
The leading Hamas activist has been enrolled for eight years, but he has been unable to complete his undergraduate engineering program because he keeps getting detained by Palestini...

America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons.
Driving the change was the quest for a less gruesome -- even less painful -- method of execut...

The leaders of the 27 countries that make up the European Union are to meet in Brussels Wednesday to try and find a way to keep the debt crisis in Europe from spiraling out of control and promote jobs and growth.
On Tuesday the Organization for Economic Cooperation and D...

The Harris County Sports and Convention Corp. will recommend a fate for the Astrodome, a building that transformed sports entertainment.
The staff will present the five-member board with its report Wednesday. One option is demolition.
When the Astrodome op...

With milk prices projected to fall and fuel costs high, more small dairy farms are going out of business.
Vermont has lost 14 dairy farms this year. A few have started up, but overall, the number of farms continues to drop in a state long known for its milk and cheese.
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Determined to end decades of authoritarian rule, millions of Egyptians on Wednesday waited patiently in long lines outside polling stations across the nation to freely chose their first president since last year's ouster of longtime ruler and close U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak.
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A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat.
The ruling established what was expected of the nine Western state...

Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.
There is no evidence the p...

Officials say two foreign doctors and three of their Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan.
Abdul Maroof Rasikh, the spokesman for the governor of Badakhshan province, said on Wednesday that it's unclear who kidnapped...