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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the nation's top military leaders pleaded for Wednesday for Senate approval of a long-spurned high seas treaty, arguing that the pact will boost U.S.... more

Mitt Romney has swept all the delegates in the Kentucky and Arkansas primaries, putting him within one win of claiming the Republican nomination for president.With all of his primary opponents out... more

A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus asked to go through the ordeal because it was seen as an honor, a criminal defendant in the case said in a deposition released... more

It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon.If... more

The jury has started a fourth day of deliberations at the campaign finance fraud trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.The jurors ended their talks Tuesday shortly after requesting... more

The MacLaren brothers are third-generation dairy farmers, but they will likely be the last in their family.After working all their lives on the hillside farm in Vermont that their grandfather... more

Crews are preparing to go back in the air to fight a wildfire that's destroyed two homes and is threatening dozens more near the Nevada-California line.Douglas County Sheriff's dispatchers say the... more

Canada's labor minister strongly suggested Wednesday the government will introduce legislation to end a strike at Canadian Pacific railway that has suspended freight service across the... more

A U.S. appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters the death chamber to his or her final heartbeat.The ruling... more

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... more