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When Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton arrived at the White House, they brought with them styles that suited their hometowns in Texas and Arkansas, but that wouldn't have held up in any fashion capital.
President Hugo Chavez is threatening to imprison a popular opposition leader, roll tanks into the streets and use force to defend the results of Sunday's state and local elections.
In a Nov. 14 story about German Green Party politician Cem Ozdemir, The Associated Press incorrectly reported an anecdote that he uses to illustrate a cultural difference between Germans and Turks.
A U.N. panel says the Sudanese government and rebel groups in Darfur have flagrantly violated a U.N. arms embargo and have chosen a military solution to the conflict over peace talks.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday urged the Iraqi public to support the new pact that calls for withdrawing American forces as his most determined opponent, radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, once again urged the parliament to vote down the agreement.
A woman has died from injuries sustained when a government jet crashed into rush-hour traffic in Mexico City two weeks ago, raising the death toll to 15.
Arkansas authorities have taken into protective custody 21 children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries based on allegations of neglect and physical abuse.
Rep. John Lewis jokingly says he'll try to resist calling Barack Obama "Brother President" after he's sworn in as the nation's first African-American president on Jan. 20.
A new witness has come forward in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba, and prosecutors said Tuesday they are seeking more evidence against the only remaining suspect.
Nebraska lawmakers appeared Tuesday to be leaning toward tightening the state's safe-haven law by setting an age limit of either one month or one year for children who may be legally abandoned by parents or guardians.
Eleven-year-old Protegee carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives in a sea of people in eastern Congo.
A senior commander of international peacekeepers in Darfur said Tuesday the mission is working to persuade rebel groups to accept a government cease-fire offer - a task made difficult by recent violence.
The knuckleball - the fluttering, hard-to-hit pitch that's rare in the major leagues - is propelling a 16-year-old girl to the pros in Japan.
The British government wants to make it illegal to pay for sex and is considering a plan to "name and shame" men who visit prostitutes - a move critics say would turn back the clock to Victorian times.
A man who spent 24 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit sued St. Louis County and the officers who arrested him, saying investigators ignored inconsistencies in the victim's description.
The setting could pass for a high-tech trading floor: men in dark suits, sitting at tiered banks of desks, studying a steady stream of video and data on floor-to-ceiling monitors.
Archeologists believe a 12,000-year-old skeleton found in a grave containing 50 tortoise shells, a leopard pelvis, a cow tail and part of an eagle wing is the remains of a witch doctor.
The prostitute at the center of the salacious scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and generated national headlines is going to dish on her life as a pricey escort. ABC says Ashley Alexandra Dupre sat down with Diane Sawyer on the program "20/20."
The world's oldest polar bear has died at a Canadian zoo.
In one classroom, a group of preschool teachers squatted on the floor, pretending to be cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers. Next door, another group ended a raucous musical game by placing their tambourines and drums atop their heads.
A San Diego jury has convicted a man of murder for fatally injuring a professional surfer with a punch during a scuffle.
Federal biologists say three pesticides common on farms and orchards in the West jeopardize the survival of Pacific salmon.
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri admitted Tuesday that he broke state ethics rules for a fourth time by hiring a niece to work in his office.
The reappearance of a man who was officially dead has shaken and outraged some in Chile, a nation that mourns 1,196 other political prisoners who vanished in the hands of a military dictatorship.
Israeli tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, drawing mortar fire from Palestinian militants and intensifying violence that has chipped away at a tenuous cease-fire.
A soldier's wife has been charged with setting a fire at their Kentucky Army base home that killed her two young children.
A judge dismissed charges against a Filipino doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. military's health care program by submitting $2 million worth of bogus claims, saying prosecutors waited too long to arrest him after filing charges.
Four illegal immigrants were found in the back of a Wal-Mart truck, and the driver and two alleged accomplices were accused of trying to smuggle them through a Border Patrol checkpoint.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation law that restricts drug company access to some information about doctors' prescription writing habits.
The Brazilian government will begin using a plane equipped with body-heat sensors to locate - and protect - uncontacted Indian tribes in the Amazon, officials said Tuesday.
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