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CIA Director Leon Panetta during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on February 16, 2011. Pakistan's demand that the US scale back …

Vicente Fox Calls on Mexico to Legalize Drugs

Washington - House Republicans, fresh from their showdown with Democrats over cuts in the current federal budget, promised Sunday to take an even tougher stand on spending next month …

Washington - To a greater degree than most insurance company chiefs, Mark Bertolini has encountered his own personal challenges with the health care system. Bertolini, the head …

Lisbon - To secure a bailout worth about €80 billion, Portugal may have to agree to international creditors’ demands that it impose tougher austerity measures than those its own …

Abidjan, Ivory Coast - The Ivory Coast strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, was captured on Monday after a week-long siege of his residence and placed under the control of his rival …

Juneau - Legislators have signed off on another $1.4 million in federal money to pay planners of the controversial Knik Arm bridge and are talking about ponying up state …

On a tract of government land along the Savannah River in South Carolina, an army of workers is building one of the nation's most ambitious nuclear enterprises in decades: …

Tokyo - A strong aftershock off Japan’s Pacific coast on Monday briefly set off a tsunami warning and knocked out cooling at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant …

In prisons across the country, gangs are selling their fellow inmates into sex trafficking in order to increase their power and profits. Ex-convict Scott Howard, a survivor …