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Associated Press WASHINGTON — The number of hate crime incidents and victims declined in 2009, compared with the previous year, the FBI reported Monday.

Associated Press WASHINGTON — Black farmers and American Indians who say the United States discriminated against them and took their money for decades are a …

GENEVA (AP) — Recent positive comments by the pope about condom use by male prostitutes will help fight the AIDS crisis, health groups said Sunday, …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Raising the retirement age for Social Security would disproportionately hurt low-income workers and minorities, and increase disability claims by older people unable …

Associated Press GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — He’s the most famous son of this quiet mountain hamlet in western Massachusetts. But, until recently, people looking for …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) _ Representatives of Memphis Hispanic groups and their supporters decried comments by a Republican lawmaker who likened illegal immigrant births to rats …

Associated Press DECATUR, Ga. — Atlanta-area megachurch pastor Eddie Long took on trips four young men who claim he coerced them into sexual relationships but …

Associated Press Writer GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP)– Crystal Cathedral, the megachurch birthplace of the televangelist show Hour of Power, has filed for bankruptcy in Southern …

LONDON (AP) — Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican reggae singer whose smooth style earned him the nickname “Cool Ruler,” has died. He was 59. Isaacs’ manager, …

PORT-OF-SPAIN —Trinidad and Tobago prosecutors dropped a murder charge Oct. 21 against the leader of an Islamic group that staged a bloody coup attempt 20 …