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Several Districts Including Hillsborough Wanted Review After Sharply Lower Scores

Was Crossing Street on Bicycle When Collision Happened

Judge Calls Health Care Question "Manifestly Misleading"

Says Whites on Staff Violated Same NCAA Rule She Did

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities say all four airmen aboard a plane that crashed at an Air Force base in Alaska were killed.

Col. John McMullen says three of the men were in the Alaska Air National Guard and the fourth was on active duty at Elmendorf ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge's ruling that put most of the state's immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gov. Jan Brewer called ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New jobless claims fell last week for the third time in four weeks but remain elevated.

The Labor Department said Thursday that first-time claims for unemployment insurance dropped by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000.

Claims have fluctuated this month because of temporary seasonal factors. General Motors ...

RICHMOND (AP) — Convicted D.C. snipers Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad were supposed to have had help carrying out their deadly attacks, and they may have been involved in more shootings than authorities suspected, according to an interview with actor ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate Democrat said Thursday that as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be misidentified because managers there didn't do their job properly.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, spoke at a hearing, where the cemetery's former superintendent and deputy superintendent were scheduled to testify.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Obama on Thursday said the racial firestorm that led to the ouster of a black Agriculture Department official was a "phony controversy" generated by the media. He said his administration overreacted by forcing her out.

In an interview on the ABC daytime talk show "The ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Relatives desperate to find the bodies of loved ones joined emergency teams Thursday at the scene of Pakistan's worst-ever plane crash, but recovery work was badly hampered by thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides.

The Airbus A321 operated by local carrier Airblue crashed into hills overlooking the ...

BERLIN (AP) — The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process -- from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing their corpses into ...

U.S. authorities have long considered human-trafficking to be a foreign problem, and as a result U.S.-focused efforts against such sexual exploitation have to battle a serious lack of safe shelter for victims.

But local governments in cities such as Portland, Ore., and Seattle have begun to coordinate their responses with ...

EGYPT

Direct peace talks get U.S. boost

CAIRO | Egypt said Wednesday it has received U.S. assurances that may help in restarting direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel.

Egyptian presidential spokesman Suleiman Awwad did not disclose details of the U.S. assurances, which come on the eve of a ...

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia | A cyber mastermind from Slovenia who is suspected of creating a malicious software code that infected 12 million computers worldwide and orchestrating other huge cyberscams has been arrested and questioned, police said Wednesday.

Leon Keder, a spokesman for the Slovenian police, did not identify the suspect. Mr. ...

Scientists, engineers and financiers involved in the A.Q. Khan nuclear-smuggling network are being contacted by several governments in an effort to lure these specialists out of retirement.

The development is raising concerns among U.S. intelligence agencies about the revival of the proliferation network that was thought to have been shut ...