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The year-long battle to dramatically change the nation's ailing health care system may be coming to an end. House and Senate Democratic leaders are confident they are very close to passing health care reform.
A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday.
A U.S. official says a Colorado woman has been detained in Ireland in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch offended many Muslims.
About 1,500 people filled the Lynn University campus gymnasium to attend a memorial ceremony for four students and two professors who died in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake in January.
The State Department condemned Iran's persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities' detention of Baha'is and Christians in recent months.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that Israel's announcement of new settlement construction in disputed territory in East Jerusalem was "insulting" to the United States.
They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave.
For one New Yorker, the journey to the Pearly Gates involved a detour to the city's car pound.
When dealing with privacy, Google often finds itself walking a tightrope.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul on Saturday for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.
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