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Hearings set for Tucson shooting case
The judge overseeing the deadly Tucson, Ariz., mass shooting case on Monday scheduled competency and change of plea hearings for defendant Jared Lee Loughner....
Mars landing takes huge effort
The robotic explorer Curiosity's daring plunge through the pink skies of Mars was more than perfect. It landed with spectacular style, said a NASA scientist...
Madonna hopes for rockers' release
Madonna has voiced hope that three feminist Russian rockers on trial for performing a "punk prayer" against Vladimir Putin are released soon. The pop...
Ernesto heads for Honduras
A tropical storm warning has been issued for the coast of Honduras as Tropical Storm Ernesto approaches. The warning was issued early Monday and covers the...
Army veteran shooter at Sikh temple
A 40-year-old Army veteran, identified by a civil rights group as the one-time leader of a white supremacist band, was the gunman who killed six people inside a...
Rover lands on Mars
Curiosity Lands on Mars. NASA's Curiosity rover has landed on Mars! Its descent-stage retrorockets fired, guiding it to the surface. Nylon cords lowered...
Deadly NASCAR lightning strike
A lightning strike in the parking lot at Pocono Raceway after a NASCAR race Sunday killed one person and injured nine others, racetrack officials said. It...
Gunman kills 6 at Sikh temple
An unidentified gunman killed six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday in a rampage that left terrified congregants hiding in closets and...
Police say seven dead at Sikh temple
Police in Wisconsin say seven people are dead at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, including the suspected gunman. Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt says...
Shooting at Sikh temple in Wisconsin
A police dispatcher in Wisconsin says there has been a shooting at a Sikh temple outside of Milwaukee. Oak Creek Police Department dispatcher Stephanie Uljanec...
Homeowners find little left after wildfire
While residents of one Oklahoma town sifted through their charred belongings Saturday to salvage what they could after a roaring wildfire that may have been...
Heavy explosions shake Syrian capital
Heavy explosions shook the Syrian capital Saturday and helicopters circled overhead as rebels appeared to be renewing their offensive in the city, witnesses and...
'Snowflake' hits 220mph
Falling at speeds of up to 220 mph, nearly 140 skydivers shattered the vertical skydiving world record Friday evening as they flew heads-down in a massive...
NASA's Mars landing lingo
Fascinated by NASA's latest Mars mission and planning to tune in? Well, good luck understanding the space agency's everyday lingo, which resembles a...
Tractor used to crush cop vehicles
Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff's deputies didn't know what was...
Drought fears in India
Amarnath Sharma has waited weeks for rains to soak his parched rice paddies so that he can start planting. He is one of millions of farmers across India who are...
Illinois Megabus, crashes
Illinois State Police say the person who died in the crash of a double-decker Megabus was a female passenger, but they have not disclosed her name or her age....
80 million fake Facebook accounts
Facebook says there may be as many as 83 million false or duplicate accounts on its website. The company said in a regulatory filing this week that 8.7 per...
Rockers seek release of punk band
Some of Britain's leading musicians have published a letter calling for Russian officials to release a punk band that has been jailed following a protest in...
Chinese teenager kills 8 people
A teenager killed eight people with a knife and wounded five more in northeast China after falling out with his girlfriend, state media said Thursday. The teen...