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Russia said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite may be a veiled test of America's missile defense system.

A student abducted last month was strangled by a serial rapist who has attacked at least two other women, say police in Reno, Nev.

Police in Maryland say an eighth person has died after a car roared into a crowd that was watching a drag race on a suburban highway.

Reuters In a departure from usual policy, a senior U.S. Treasury official met Iranian representatives in Paris last month as part of a multinational gathering to discuss "terror financing," said U.S. officials on ...

Los Angeles Police Officer Randal Simmons was remembered in a tearful, three-hour ceremony attended by nearly 10,000 people

Los Angeles Times The police officers arrived by the thousands -- members of a family bound not by blood, but by a uniform and a badge. They were joined by countless other mourners Friday, inside a cavernous South Los Angeles church and throughout the region, to honor slain Los Angeles Police Officer Randal Simmons. The 51-year-old officer...

The attempt by the U.S. Navy to use an anti-missile missile to shoot down a potentially hazardous satellite will cost between $40 million and $60 million, Pentagon officials told CNN on Friday.

A Chinese factory that supplies much of the active ingredient for a brand of a blood thinner that has been linked to four deaths in the United States is not certified by China's drug regulators to make ...

Steve Kazmierczak, the man who walked silently into a classroom here on Thursday and opened fire, was not seen as struggling in college.

Former Vice President Al Gore and a number of other senior Democrats plan to remain neutral for now in the presidential race in part to keep open the option to broker a peaceful resolution to what they fear ...

President Bush has embarked on a five-nation trip to Africa to promote democratic reform and economic advancement, and to review progress made in fighting disease.

A fresh batch of data on Friday presented a bleak picture of the economy, with rising prices of imported goods, struggling manufacturing and an erosion in consumer confidence.

A former police officer who tearfully told jurors he accidentally killed his pregnant lover was convicted Friday of murdering her and their unborn child.

Warren Messner was 15 when he and some friends attacked a homeless man and left him for dead. Mr. Messner jumped on a log laid across the man’s ribs. He does not know why. He was high, does not remember much and wants to forget the rest.

NYT THE Democratic presidential nomination battle is virtually dead even between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. And while Senator Obama has moved ahead in recent days, neither is likely to come close to the 2,025 delegates needed to win the nomination...

With the credit markets once again deteriorating, the nation's two top economic policy makers acknowledged Thursday that the outlook for the economy had worsened, as both came under criticism for being ...

After nine years, Vivienne Westwood returned to the London catwalk. Ever politically defiant, the British fashion doyenne called on Americans to vote for Obama as Hillary Clinton "only wants to be president". ... via Reuters

AP The Pentagon is planning to shoot down a broken spy satellite expected to hit the Earth in early March, The Associated Press has learned.

AOLnews The House of Representatives will take up contempt of Congress charges today for one current and one former Bush Administration officials in its continuing investigation into the firing of eight United States ...

You may recall that Wednesday, despite threats by Bush that he would veto the bill, the Senate passed a bill that would outlaw waterboarding by the CIA. The bill would extend the limitations in the Army Field Manual to the CIA.

What may have gone unnoticed is that Senator John McCain, who has in the past opposed harsh interrogation tactics, voted against the bill.

Daily Times Over the last 28 years, we tried with the limited means at our disposal, to dictate the course of events in Afghanistan.

First there were reports from three prestigious institutes, the US-based Atlantic Council and the Afghan Study Group and the British Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS) all maintaining that American and NATO forces were failing in Afghanistan and calling for new thinking and a new comprehensive strategy.