U.S. says it's pressing for a 3-tier ceasefire in the Gaza Strip

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Hundreds in Kandahar city protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza

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Obamas take up residence in D.C. with two weeks to go until inauguration

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama and his family are now full-fledged D.C. residents, moving into a grand downtown hotel over the weekend so that Sasha and Malia Obama could start their first day at an elite private school once...

Snowstorm forces Eiffel Tower closure, cancellation of flights

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Taliban whopper: claim 5,220 foreign troops killed in Afghanistan last year

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have long exaggerated their military successes, but their recent claim that they killed more than 5,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan last year...

Vegas beer pong competition gets (almost) serious

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Alaska trooper says politics slowed drug arrest

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Children alone for days, parents dead in locked room at Oregon home

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TV retail network QVC will sell memorabilia at Obama inauguration

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Barack Obama predicts quick approval of his economy rescue plan

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Bush OKs airlift of equipment and vehicles to aid Darfur peace efforts

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California court sides with U.S. Episcopal church over property ownership

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Man charged with manslaughter in deadly Manhattan crane collapse

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WASHINGTON - The United States is pressing for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that would include three main elements, including a halt to Hamas' rocket attacks on Israel, the State Department said Monday....

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Hundreds of people shouted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" as the embers of an Israeli flag smouldered on the streets of Kandahar city during an angry demonstration Monday....

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama and his family are now full-fledged D.C. residents, moving into a grand downtown hotel over the weekend so that Sasha and Malia Obama could start their first day at an elite private school once...

PARIS - A winter storm brought blankets of snow across Europe today, forcing the closure of an icy Eiffel Tower in Paris and causing flight cancellations....

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban have long exaggerated their military successes, but their recent claim that they killed more than 5,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan last year...

LAS VEGAS - Don't let the smell of beer and the rock music fool you: Beer pong is a serious game. Some dare say a sport....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A drug investigator says authorities delayed the arrest of a woman tied to Gov. Sarah Palin's family until after the November election, in which Palin was the...

MADRAS, Ore. - An Oregon couple who hadn't been seen since New Year's Eve have been found dead inside their locked bedroom with their crying nine-month-old daughter in an apparent ...

NEW YORK - QVC is travelling to Washington to mark president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration this month - and is bringing along plenty of coins, stamps, jewelry and even a small ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. president-elect Barack Obama declared the U.S. economy was "bad and getting worse" Monday as he began crisis talks with congressional leaders on emergency action....

WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush has announced the airlift of equipment and vehicles for the humanitarian effort in Darfur, the violence-plagued western Sudan region...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's high court has prohibited three Southern California parishes who left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers from retaining...

NEW YORK - The contractor that raised the crane that toppled in midtown Manhattan last year, killing seven people, has been charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent...

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