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HENLEY-ON-KLIP, South Africa (AP) _ Oprah Winfrey sat rapt in the front row of the state-of-the-art theater during a show put on by the poor …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Growing up without a father left a hole in his heart, President Barack Obama told boys at the White House Friday in …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is in a box over Iran, caught between affinity for emboldened reformists and caution about further alienating a hard-line …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ An elderly man enters a crowded museum carrying a rifle and begins shooting. A young man in Arkansas pulls the trigger outside …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum was shuttered Thursday with its flags at half-staff as it mourned a guard who died stopping …

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The Organization of American States cleared the way for Cuba’s possible return to the group by lifting a 47-year …

PHOENIX (AP) _ The death of Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter in a bizarre accident adds an awful chapter to the boxer’s troubled life.   Exodus …

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as the nation’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, according to The Associated …

MIAMI – The Associated Press reports that five men were convicted Tuesday of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to destroy Chicago’s Sears Tower.

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama’s pick to oversee food and drug safety pledged last week to revamp protection of the nation’s food supply to …