An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human remains as more debris from last year's Japanese tsunami finally washes ashore.

Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low.

Patrick Fitzgerald, one of the most feared U.S. attorneys in the nation and the architect of corruption convictions against two Illinois governors and a former vice presidential aide, announced through his office Wednesday that he is stepping down at the end of next month.

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A second ex-campaign aide to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray is facing federal charges relating to money given to another candidate.

A lawyer for the former governor of a Mexican state whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of investing millions of dollars of drug cartel bribes in Texas real estate says his client is innocent of the allegations and does not own the properties.

Authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists during a mugging said Wednesday that the victims were a 47-year-old woman and her 80-year-old mother, who tried to aid her.

A Malaysian wildlife trader held captive by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants for a year in the southern Philippines says he saw group members as young as 15 skilled in using M16 rifles that were prevalent in the impoverished region.

More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election pitting old regime figures against ascending Islamists.

British Prime Minister David Cameron's office says that Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib will be in London for talks.

The lawmaker leading an inquiry into the Secret Service prostitution scandal reported dozens of "troubling" episodes of past misbehavior Wednesday and appealed to insiders to come forward with what they know as investigators try to determine whether a culture of misconduct took root in the storied agency.

A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, but no tsunami is expected.

A Turkish court was asked Wednesday to approve murder charges against members of Israel's military for the killing of nine people aboard a Turkish ship trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010, Turkey's state-run news agency reported.

Some tolling authorities have found a way to give local motorists a discount on tolls while charging out-of-towners a higher rate for using the same roads and bridges.

The price of oil dropped below $90 on Thursday for the first time in nearly seven months as U.S. supplies continue to grow.

European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.

A Russian military jet's landing gear malfunctioned as it touched down in the Czech Republic on Wednesday, injuring six people when it rolled off the runway, broke apart and caught fire, officials said. At least one man was in life-threatening condition.

A high-ranking church official accused of moving predator-priests to unwitting parishes has testified that he had no authority to make priest transfers.

It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon.

A soldier accused of planning to bomb a Texas restaurant frequented by troops was detained by police who were tracking a person based on suspicious gun store purchases but didn't know his name.

Prosecutors in southern Mexico say they have captured a man suspected in the killing of a U.S. journalist during protests against the Oaxaca state government in 2006.

Sentencing is set for Wednesday for an upstate New York woman who admits she faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.

Iran traded proposals with six world powers, including the United States, Wednesday in a new round of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear program and ease concerns it wants to make atomic weapons. But divisions over sanctions complicated the discussions.

A wildlife official says that about 5,000 elephants have been killed by poachers over the past five years around the Nouabale Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo.

Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out.

Prominent British television presenter Jeremy Paxman has told an official inquiry that CNN interviewer Piers Morgan once gave him pointers on how to hack a mobile phone.

Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.

Subway workers are on strike in Brazil's biggest city, almost completely halting a system used daily by more than 4 million people.

The mother of a teenage Dallas runaway who immigration authorities shipped to South America after she provided a false name has filed a civil rights suit against top federal officials claiming her daughter was illegally detained and deported.

A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus was known for his opposition to hazing but agreed to go through a brutal initiation ritual because it was seen as an honor, according to interviews with band mates released Wednesday.

A Massachusetts woman says she was angry when she got an email from her son's fourth-grade teacher telling her that school personnel had pulled a loose baby tooth he had been playing with.

A party official says Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will speak at an economic conference next week in Thailand's capital, in her first trip abroad in 24 years.

A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday for conspiring against the state, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington.

President Vladimir Putin signaled his support Wednesday for a controversial bill now working its way through Russia's parliament that would increase fines 200-fold for those taking part in unsanctioned protests.

A court official says prosecutors are planning to charge a southern Indiana man with murdering a third woman, whose body was found buried in his backyard last month.

The home Jose Nazare Braga built in the Rocinha shantytown is his life's work, an investment that grew from a shack to a three-story building over 30 years. A restaurant and a paper-goods store on the ground floor provide income, and his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren live above.

Mexico's former ruling party says it won't defend a former governor accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels.

A prominent American forensic scientist said Wednesday that Chinese police asked him to analyze an unidentified blood sample, in a possible link to a spiraling political scandal in which a senior official was sacked amid allegations that his wife murdered a British man.

The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few:

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a 2,700-year-old seal that bears the inscription "Bethlehem," the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday, in what experts believe to be the oldest artifact with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.

Canada's labor minister said Wednesday the government will introduce legislation if necessary to end a strike at Canadian Pacific railway, which has forced the suspension of its freight service in Canada and the United States.

Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan says an agent was fired in 2008 after being caught in a Washington prostitution scandal.

Investigators have determined that an eastern Ohio man set a fire two months ago that killed him and his three young sons.

African Union and Somali forces captured new territory outside Mogadishu that has long been controlled by militant fighters, officials said Wednesday.

Two cheetah cubs have been transported to the Smithsonian's National Zoo to be raised by hand after a risky birth three weeks ago at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in northern Virginia.

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Protesters took to the streets of Myanmar's biggest city for a second night Wednesday to air their complaints about chronic power cuts, in a test of the tolerance of the reformist government of military-backed but elected President Thein Sein.

A pair of attacks killed five people in Iraq on Wednesday, including three Lebanese Shiite pilgrims, officials said.

Libya's former prime minister will only be extradited to his country if his life isn't in danger there and he can be guaranteed a fair trial, Tunisia's presidential spokesman said Wednesday.

Syria is allowing Kurdish rebels who are fighting Turkish forces to establish bases in Syrian territory, as ties between the two neighboring countries deteriorate, a Turkish minister said Wednesday.

The jury has started a fourth day of deliberations at the campaign finance fraud trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.

Angola's president says national parliamentary elections will be held Aug. 31.

The MacLaren brothers are third-generation dairy farmers, but they will likely be the last in their family.

Crews are preparing to go back in the air to fight a wildfire that's destroyed two homes and is threatening dozens more near the Nevada-California line.

Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange is to find out next week whether his bid to block extradition to Sweden has been successful.

Russia on Wednesday successfully test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile with an enhanced capability to penetrate missile defenses and commissioned a new early warning radar, the Defense Ministry said.

From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.

Six bulldog-mix puppies found in a suitcase next to a trash bin in Ohio now have new homes.

Syria's oil minister acknowledged the heavy toll international sanctions have taken on the country's oil sector, saying Wednesday that they had sucked about $4 billion from the economy.

The mass die-off of nearly 900 dolphins and porpoises along Peru's coast remains unsolved, Peru's government marine research agency says.

A state in western India has declared war on animal poaching by allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks on tigers and other wildlife.

More than 12,000 Congolese fleeing violence at home have crossed into Uganda since the end of last year, and Uganda is planning for an influx of up to 30,000 refugees from Congo, an official said Wednesday.

Yemeni military officials say fresh clashes between government troops and al-Qaida fighters in the south have killed 22 militants and seven soldiers.

Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for the reduction of the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker in Indonesia.

A 6-year-old central Florida boy has died five years after he nearly drowned in a backyard pool.

A branch of Chinese city governments set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.

The U.N. human rights chief says Zimbabwe's president has acknowledged the nation faces "current problems" but blames influences of the past.

Three people charged by a Bosnian court with involvement in a shooting attack on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo last October have pleaded not guilty to terrorism.

Dirty clothes have a Pittsburgh-area police officer in hot water.

Tens of thousands of students marched through the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since the movement against higher tuition fees began. Tuesday's protest came after Quebec's provincial government passed emergency legislation intended to end Canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever.

Official: Pakistani doctor who helped US track down Osama bin Laden sentenced to 33 years.

The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro is in San Francisco to meet with gay rights activists and to chair a panel at a prestigious academic conference.

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Sri Lankan customs officials say they have seized about 1.5 tons of elephant tusks in the largest ever such seizure in the country.

Nearly a year and a half after the ouster of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak, millions of Egyptians lined up for hours outside polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in an election that pits old regime figures promising stability against ascending Islamists seeking to consolidate power.

A Malaysian gecko trader held captive by suspected Abu Sayyaf militants for a year in the southern Philippines says he saw group members as young as 15 skilled in using M16 rifles that were prevalent in the impoverished region.

Nuclear talks between world powers and Tehran over Iran's atomic program start in Baghdad.

Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says.

The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem - a 2,700 years old seal with the name of Jesus' traditional birthplace.

Russia's foreign minister says that the conflict in Syria could spread to neighboring Lebanon.

Iraqi officials say gunmen have attacked a bus northeast of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding seven.

Nigeria immigration officials say they've arrested 45 Chinese nationals working in the a popular northern market and plan to deport them.

A new poll finds support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives has fallen after an embarrassing election defeat in Germany's most populous state.

Tropical Storm Bud is moving northwest off Mexico's Pacific coast with little change in strength.

A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.

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Prosecutors are expected to release evidence they have against the 13 people charged in last year's hazing death of Florida A&M drum major Robert Champion.

It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon.

A Miami college student plans to plead guilty in federal court to threatening President Barack Obama on Facebook.

Nepal's government wants the repeatedly extended Constituent Assembly to get yet another three months to finish writing the Himalayan nation's constitution, and even members of the ruling parties are crying foul.

A fast-moving wildfire erupted in a rural neighborhood near the Nevada-California line and destroyed two homes but no injuries have been reported and the danger from what one frightened resident described as a "wall of fire" was subsiding.

With barely a woof and many a sniff, police canines from around the country are gathering in Lakeland, Fla., this week to see who will be top dog.

Robert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out.

Australia denied Wednesday that it had agreed to treat young Indonesian people smugglers more leniently in return for Indonesia reducing the prison sentence of a high-profile Australian drug trafficker.

As more of America's children are raised by relatives other than their parents, state and local governments need to do better in helping these families cope with an array of financial and emotional challenges, a new report concludes.

A San Francisco-based federal appeals court ruled in 2002 that every aspect of an execution should be open to witnesses, from the moment the condemned enters into the death chamber to his final heartbeat.

At 26, Saed Qasrawi is among the oldest students at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.

America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from daylong events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons.

The MacLaren brothers are third-generation dairy farmers, but they will likely be the last in their family.

Officials say two foreign doctors and three of their Afghan colleagues have been kidnapped in a remote area in the extreme northeast Afghanistan.

A private news magazine in Myanmar won a rare court victory Wednesday and will not have to reveal the name of a reporter who wrote about corruption at government ministries.

Uncle Sam may not want you after all.

Police say they have arrested 10 Israelis over the past few weeks on suspicion they trafficked in organs.

Police say a bus full of Hindu pilgrims plunged into the Ganges River, killing 26 people in northern India.

Egyptians on Wednesday and Thursday vote to elect their first president since the fall of Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011 after 29 years of his authoritarian rule. A second round is likely to be held between the two top vote-getters on June 16-17. Here is a look at what's at stake in the election.

A branch of city governments China set up to monitor everything from unlicensed street vendors to unauthorized construction is rife with abuse of power, stoking already high social tensions, a rights group said Wednesday.

The Philippines is accusing China of sending more government and fishing vessels to a contested shoal in the South China Sea despite ongoing talks to resolve the 2-month-old standoff.

Sentencing is set for an upstate New York woman who admits she faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon.

Profiles of Egypt's main presidential candidates:

A U.S. drone fired two missiles at a compound in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four suspected militants in an attack that comes as Washington is running out of patience with Islamabad's refusal to reopen supply routes for NATO troops in Afghanistan.

Carrying small American flags and wearing T-shirts bearing the names of friends and loved ones who died when a massive tornado tore through Joplin one year ago, thousands of people made a somber march Tuesday through some of the town's hardest-hit neighborhoods.

A Chinese immigrant who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in western Canada four years ago thought he was attacking an alien, according to a mental health advocate who interviewed him.

The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, has also said he will step down.

Hundreds of guests at a beachside Hawaii resort are returning to their hotel after police shot and killed a man in the parking lot who was suspected of stealing a vehicle.

Eugene Polley's mid-1950s invention was not the first TV remote control. In 1950, Zenith had released a device tethered to the television by a long cord, which proved to be inelegant and dangerous.

Amnesty International urged Jamaica's government Tuesday to appoint an independent fact-finding panel to investigate human rights violations allegedly committed during a bloody state of emergency to catch gang boss Christopher "Dudus" Coke.

A drifter accused of terrorizing a struggling city by faking car trouble then stabbing strangers who came to his aid was quickly convicted of murder Tuesday after jurors rejected an insanity defense.

Tens of thousands of students marched through the streets of Montreal on Tuesday to mark 100 days since the movement against higher tuition fees began. The protest comes after Quebec's provincial government passed emergency legislation intended to end Canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever.

The ashes of James Doohan, Scotty from "Star Trek," and those of about 300 others were aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that blasted into orbit Tuesday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reappeared on television Tuesday a week and a half after returning from cancer treatment in Cuba.

A woman arrested in the daytime stabbing deaths of two Canadian tourists near an Atlantic City casino laughed, frowned, grimaced and repeatedly asked where her lawyer was Tuesday as she was charged with murdering the women, one of them 80 years old.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn's infamous encounter with a hotel housekeeper reflected a pattern of misogynistic behavior by the former International Monetary Fund leader, she said in court papers adding a new claim Tuesday to her sexual-assault lawsuit against him.

The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real estate, federal prosecutors alleged in two forfeiture cases filed Tuesday.

Former first lady Nancy Reagan suffered broken ribs in a fall and is recovering slowly.

The 2010 Census continued to miscount the same groups that it has had problems keeping track of in the past — minorities, renters and young men — but overall was essentially accurate, officials said Tuesday.

An environmental group on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service to force a decision on whether it will put a population of rare dolphins living near Hawaii on the endangered species list.

Lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday that strengthens punishments for landowners and others who force people into slave-like working conditions, in which thousands of Brazilians are trapped.

A former president who lost his bid to be re-elected in the Dominican Republic issued a scathing denunciation Tuesday of the country's electoral process but made no mention of any plans to challenge the outcome.

Poisoning, primarily by drugs, kills more people than car accidents, making it the nation's biggest injury-related cause of death, said...

A Muslim soldier on the run for three weeks after going AWOL from a Kentucky Army post found no help from friends in his Dallas-area hometown, where he hatched a plan and bought supplies to blow up a restaurant filled with Fort Hood troops, according to testimony at his federal trial Tuesday.

Malaysian prosecutors have again charged the government's most prominent challenger, alleging that he and two allies broke various laws during a massive street rally to demand electoral fairness.

Perhaps it was the hands — too big for the apparently frail woman in the poofy blond wig. Perhaps it was the dubious expression on...

A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker.

One day, the small espresso shop near the site of the London Games was the "Olympic" cafe. The next day, it was the "Lympic. " So where did...

Two men charged with the murders of two graduate students from China made a brief court appearance Tuesday with a crowd of supporters shouting messages of love from the audience.

A British online-auction house is offering a glass vial that it says held blood samples taken from President Reagan after his attempted...

Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed Tuesday.

Authorities say a father's prank at a southern New Jersey laundry facility nearly turned tragic when his toddler son briefly got stuck inside an active washing machine.

Police, neighbors and friends struggled Tuesday to unravel the mysterious deaths of a Nebraska woman and her 10-year-old son that began with them appearing to go on an excursion and ended with their bodies found deep in the woods of an Iowa state park.

Police arrested notorious "mountain man" Dan Nichols Tuesday on drug charges following a months-long search that came nearly three decades after he and his father kidnapped a world-class athlete.

Police on Tuesday defused a pair of powerful firecrackers hidden in a Buenos Aires theater and apparently timed to explode just when a crowd of high-paying guests would have gathered to greet former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

From dawn to dusk, residents who lived through the tornado that devastated Joplin, Mo., last year are remembering the storm and celebrating their survival.

Hawaii officials defended the islands Tuesday as a place of business amid criticism from two key U.S. senators who questioned the decision to hold an upcoming conference for federal judges on Maui.

Veterans and civilians stood side by side to honor 10 Ohio veterans whose remains were buried Tuesday with full military honors, several months after they were found in a funeral home basement.

A white supremacist likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.

The Associated Press and 16 other organizations sued the state of Idaho on Tuesday to force officials to let witnesses watch executions from start to finish, arguing that the media has a First Amendment right to view all steps of a lethal injection execution.

A priest assigned to help handle child sex-abuse complaints at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia told jurors Tuesday that Monsignor William Lynn was the only other person who could have created a typed list of suspected pedophile priests.

Police shot and killed a mountain lion that somehow made its way through an urban landscape before it was found early Tuesday in a downtown Santa Monica office building courtyard near an outdoor mall and a bluff-top park that offers tourists views of the ocean and the city's famed pier.

Bolivia's corruption-plagued national police force has its seventh new police commander in six years.

Legislation that would tighten regulations on owning exotic animals in Ohio was headed Tuesday to the governor for his expected signature, months after authorities were forced to shoot dozens of lions, tigers and other dangerous wildlife released from a farm last fall.

A new poll in Mexico says the second- and third-place candidates in the presidential race are running neck and neck - but remain far behind the candidate of the country's former ruling party.

Walter Ulises Pizarro Molina is registered to vote in Chile's presidential elections next year, although he disappeared after being arrested 35 years ago during the country's dictatorship.

A married lesbian couple living in Vermont who were threatened with being separated by federal immigration authorities have been granted a reprieve.

Much of Joplin has fallen silent to mark the precise moment the city was hit by a tornado one year ago.

The Boy Scouts of America is trying to recruit a new generation of kids to join its troops with high-energy, high-tech activities that include thrill-inducing zip lines at a new adventure camp, apps and a television show.

Railroad retirees who faked disability claims in order to get more lucrative pensions from the country's second-largest commuter rail system would avoid prosecution and be able to keep some benefits if they admit wrongdoing, federal officials said Tuesday.

The newest top cop who President Porfirio Lobo is giving the responsibility of cleaning up the national police force has faced questions in the past about his record on human rights.

Jermaine Cohen was a young slum-dweller in Jamaica when he says Christopher "Dudas" Coke drafted him into his drug gang by giving him a gun.

Organizers of the national air racing championships secured $100 million in necessary insurance and announced plans Tuesday to change the September race course for the fastest planes to keep them farther from spectators after last year's mass-casualty crash near a grandstand.

A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession.

A flight crew reported that a flare fired into the sky near Philadelphia International Airport came within 50 feet of their aircraft as they prepared to land on Tuesday, according to a radio exchange with the control tower.

A Maryland man who had been suspected in the presumed death of his traveling companion in Aruba was arrested on a charge of indecent exposure after police say they found him naked in a car with a woman.

Fire officials in suburban Chicago say an explosion at an Arlington Heights factory killed one person and sent 10 others to hospitals.

London's Metropolitan Police say they are investigating allegations that police officers accepted illegal payments from a private investigation agency in exchange for information.

A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes.

A former board member for Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble on trial on insider trading charges and two men and a woman already criminally convicted were on a list of 10 "important people" who could interrupt a billionaire hedge fund boss just before trading days ended, the trial's first witness testified Tuesday.

In a case that revealed underhanded tactics used to get Vincent Gray elected mayor of Washington, a former Gray campaign aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling campaign funds to another mayoral candidate and shredding records of the transactions.

A Democratic-controlled Senate panel Tuesday approved a $2.50 increase in airline security fees that would double the per-passenger fee for those taking nonstop flights.

Brazil's finance minister is lowering the forecast for the South American country's economic growth this year, and he blames the global financial crisis.

A forest ranger has found what's believed to be an ejection seat from a B-52 bomber that crashed on a western Maine mountain nearly 50 years ago, killing seven airmen.

Students who are closing out their first year at the U.S. Naval Academy have completed the traditional climb up the Herndon Monument.

An appeals court has lowered bail for one of the defendants in a series of firebomb attacks on northern New Jersey synagogues.

A woman sued a Connecticut hospital Tuesday, saying she was severely injured when she fell off an operating table after surgery.

The Legion of Christ religious order, already discredited for concealing the crimes of its pedophile founder, suffered another blow to its credibility Tuesday after its superior admitted he knew in 2005 that his most prominent priest had fathered a child, yet allowed him to keep teaching and preaching about morality.

The Tennessee Valley Authority says it is investigating after a noose was found at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant in Alabama.

The chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court denied Tuesday that he stole from the country's coffers and said he would open his bank accounts for inspection if the 188 lawmakers behind his impeachment do the same.

The NATO summit's plan to "responsibly wind down" the Afghan war is not entirely in the hands of President Barack Obama and his fellow world leaders.

An ex-office manager has pleaded guilty in what prosecutors say was a multimillion dollar health care fraud in which a cancer clinic gave patients diluted chemotherapy drugs and used old syringes on multiple people.

A panel of appellate judges on Tuesday upheld a $3.4 billion settlement between the U.S. government and hundreds of thousands of Native American plaintiffs whose land trust royalties were mismanaged by the Interior Department.

Uncle Sam may still want you. But you? Maybe not.

In a case that revealed underhanded tactics used to get Vincent Gray elected mayor of Washington, a former Gray campaign aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling campaign funds to another mayoral candidate and shredding records of the transactions.

Tunisia said Tuesday it will soon extradite Al-Baghdadi Al-Mahmoudi back to his homeland, after detaining the former Libyan prime minister for eight months.

Zimbabwe's prime minister said Tuesday that political violence is continuing despite denials by perpetrators who have targeted his supporters.

She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity.

In a ceremony marked by maritime pomp, a decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard cutter based in Charleston has been turned over to the Philippine Navy.

Residents marking the anniversary of the deadly Joplin tornado are marching in a somber procession along the path of the twister.

A Washington state man accused of hitting a noisy 10-year-old in a Kent theater has been charged with assault.

A group of six is behind bars after police say they bound their 41-year-old roommate's feet with tape, stapled his lips shut, and spent the night torturing him with a small power tool in their Utah home near Salt Lake City.

The Coast Guard has suspended its search for six people reported missing in the Gulf of Mexico, two days after a mayday call said they were abandoning their sinking fishing boat in the waters off Galveston, Texas.

A former longtime Pennsylvania House Democratic leader convicted on corruption charges has returned to state prison after nearly four days of court-ordered freedom.

A former longtime Pennsylvania House Democratic leader convicted on corruption charges has returned to state prison after nearly four days of court-ordered freedom.

The chief U.N. prosecutor for the former Yugoslavia said Tuesday that evidence errors that postponed the trial of Ratko Mladic are of "limited" impact and do not warrant a delay of six months as sought by the defense.

In a May 21 story about the abandoned French hamlet of Courbefy being sold at auction to a photographer, the buyer's name was incorrectly spelled. He goes by one name and that is Ahae.

Election fever has even come to Cairo's Garbage City, the sprawling neighborhood built on - and living from - the waste of the Egyptian capital.

Residents of a Londonderry street voiced their anger Tuesday at Irish Republican Army die-hards after police seized at least two bombs in an apartment in the Northern Ireland city.

As of Tuesday, May 22, 2012, at least 1,851 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

A man accused of talking about shooting President Obama in 2009 can get his gun collection back, a New Jersey appeals court said in a ruling released Tuesday.