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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The jury in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial is deliberating for a seventh day after a judge gave the panel a stern warning not to talk about the case over the weekend.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A massive wildfire burning in a mountainous southwestern New Mexico forest is close to becoming the largest fire in state history.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is expelling Syria's most senior envoy in Washington, joining a host of other governments in kicking out Syrian diplomats to protest last week's gruesome massacre in which entire families, including children, were shot execution-style in their homes.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will not block Minnesota's lawsuit against a California design firm over the deadly 2007 interstate bridge collapse in Minneapolis that killed 13 people.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon chief says building U.S. maritime strength across the Asia-Pacific will be the main project of the new generation of America's naval officers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has decided that it will not review the appropriateness of stun guns used by police on suspects.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has declined to revive a lawsuit against Iran filed by Americans held hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran more than 30 years ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will honor a diverse cross-section of political and cultural icons — including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn, basketball coach Pat Summitt and rock legend Bob Dylan — with the Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge in the perjury trial against former major league pitcher Roger Clemens has excused a third juror, leaving just one alternate as the trial enters its seventh week.
MIAMI (AP) — Authorities in Miami are looking for more witnesses after a police officer fatally shot a naked man who refused to stop chewing on the face of another naked man — even after being shot once by the officer — on a busy downtown highway ramp.
