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Israel ex-PM recounts 2008 talks with Palestinians

JERUSALEM – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday that if talks he held with Palestinians in 2008 had produced a peace deal, it would have forced tens of thousands of Jewish ...

American jailed in N. Korea returned to work camp

SEATTLE – A U.S. citizen detained in North Korea for 15 months has been returned to a labor camp, prompting worries about his health, his sister said Friday. Kenneth Bae, who led ...

Hackers may have used Pa. company to hit Target

NEW YORK – The hackers who stole millions of credit- and debit-card numbers from Target may have used a Pittsburgh-area heating and refrigeration business as the back door to get in. ...

In soaring ceremony, Olympics open in Sochi

For an evening, spectacle outshines fears of terrorism

Jobless rate hits 5-year low

WASHINGTON – A second-straight month of weak job growth renewed concerns Friday that the vigor displayed by the American economy late last year may be gone, at least for the moment. ...

Obama calls freedom of religion security issue

WASHINGTON – President Obama used the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday to declare freedom of religion a major part of American foreign policy. Saying countries that assure re...

Utilities scramble to restore power

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Hundreds of thousands of people spent a second day without electricity Thursday as utility crews from as far away as Canada and Arkansas scrambled to restore power lost whe...

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MLK’s children battle over his possessions ATLANTA – A generation after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his children are fighting among themselves again, this time over t...

Senate OK’s new China envoy

WASHINGTON – The Senate easily confirmed longtime Sen. Max Baucus on Thursday to become ambassador to China, handing the job to a lawmaker well-versed in U.S. trade policy but with little ex...

Boehner casts doubts on immigration bill

WASHINGTON – Speaker John Boehner on Thursday all but ruled out passage of immigration legislation before this fall’s elections, saying it would be difficult for the Republican-led House to ...

Eliot Ness: Real hero or Hollywood myth?

CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawma...

Israeli draft law spurs protests

JERUSALEM – Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked highways across Israel Thursday to protest attempts to draft them into the army, clashing with club-wielding police who aimed water canno...
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