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Mexican police held in kidnapping case MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of 13 federal police officers who allegedly belonged to a kidnap and murde...

Briton, Belgian win Nobel

STOCKHOLM – Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theory, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgian coll...

Hints of compromise on budget emerge

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner offered hints of possible compromise but also traded heated rhetoric Tuesday, a frustratingly inconclusive combination that...

Missing in Rio on the rise; Brazil police accused

RIO DE JANEIRO – Anderson de Souza turned back after bounding down a dark maze of passageways in Rio de Janeiro’s sprawling Rocinha slum, incandescent light illuminating his face. ...

U.N. and chemical watchdog to destroy Syrian weapons

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. secretary-general recommended Monday that approximately 100 people from the United Nations and the world’s chemical weapons watchdog agency be part of an unpreceden...

Early snow kills thousands of cattle in South Dakota

PIERRE, S.D. – A record-breaking storm that dumped 4 feet of snow in parts of western South Dakota left ranchers dealing with heavy losses, in some cases perhaps up to half their herds, as ...

SEAL attack target behind Kenya plots

NAIROBI, Kenya – The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country’s parliament building and the United Nations headqu...

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Accident damages experimental airship TUSTIN, Calif. – A $35 million lighter-than-air dirigible was damaged and leaked helium Monday after part of a hangar roof collapsed at a fo...

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Officials blame driver for deaths at event CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Mexican government officials and event organizers Monday blamed the driver of a monster truck for losing control...

3 share Nobel Prize in medicine

NEW YORK – Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for illuminating how tiny bubbles inside cells shuttle key substances around like a vast and highly effi...

U.S. expects to sign pact with Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is optimistic that a U.S.-Afghan agreement over the future role of American troops in the country can be finalized in the next few weeks despite two mai...

High court weighs limits on campaign contributions

WASHINGTON – In its first major campaign finance case since the Citizens United ruling in 2010, the Supreme Court is considering whether to undo some limits on contributions from the biggest...