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Mississippi has executed a former grocery store butcher for dismembering a man and raping a woman he locked in a metal box. Read more »

Jeb, the black and brown dwarfed goat at Lake Superior Zoo, sought out Brad Jago every day for a little love, attention and a gentle scratch on the forehead where his horns once stood. Read more »

Two uniformed officers looking for a robbery suspect approach a group of New Yorkers hanging out in the sweltering heat on the stoop of a dilapidated Bronx building. Read more »

Officials postponed declaring a winner in Egypt's disputed election on Wednesday, sending political tensions soaring as the country awaited its first new president in three decades. Read more »

A day after electing their first African-American president, Southern Baptists passed a resolution opposing the idea that same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue. Read more »

Democratic lawmakers who want to use surplus state revenues to halt tuition increases and make deeper cuts to the sales tax on groceries called on Republican Gov. Bill Haslam Wednesday to convene a... Read more »

Greece moved to end its protracted political impasse Wednesday, swearing in a new prime minister to lead a largely pro-bailout coalition tasked with saving the country's place in the eurozone and... Read more »

Setting up a potential constitutional confrontation, a Republican-controlled House panel voted Wednesday to cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress, just hours after President... Read more »

anmar to Pakistan to Bangladesh and beyond, some 15.2 million people live as refugees, many for decades or more. Nearly half are children under the age of 18. Read more »

The first serious proposal to compensate victims of forced sterilization failed Wednesday when North Carolina legislators said they were not approving any money for them. One ardent supporter... Read more »

The engineering feat that is the trans-Alaska pipeline is celebrating a milestone. Read more »

Two years after voters in Fremont approved a controversial immigration ordinance, the rule remains mired in court and residents are still split about whether it addresses a serious problem or... Read more »

Romania's prime minister says one of his predecessors has shot himself and was in the hospital, just hours after a court upheld the ex-premier's two-year prison sentence on corruption charges. Read more »

Temperatures hit the high 90s along the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as a hot spell heralded the official start of summer, with people wilting at graduation ceremonies, students trying to learn in... Read more »

House committee holds AG Holder in contempt for failing to turn over Justice documents. Read more »

Message from liberals to President Barack Obama: Your economic message is muddled, go after Wall Street harder. Read more »

Republican businessman Dave Spence has been touting his job-creating abilities while campaigning to become Missouri governor. Yet Spence's plastic bottle business had to repay $75,000 of incentives... Read more »

No longer a backburner issue, immigration is roiling the presidential contest as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney seek to court the nation's swelling Hispanic population. The... Read more »

A painstaking recount began Wednesday in the recall election for a GOP state senator from Racine County, where witnesses and campaign officials watched as tabulators sifted through stacks of... Read more »

Palestinians in this hamlet have clung to their arid acres for decades, living without proper electricity or water while Israel provides both to Jewish settlers on the nearby hills. But the end now... Read more »

Uruguay's government apparently plans to take a step beyond legalizing marijuana: It wants to sell it. Read more »

A curfew in a religious flashpoint state in Nigeria's north has failed to stop days of ongoing violence and almost 100 deaths, an official said Wednesday, as residents of another besieged city said... Read more »

A convicted California serial killer was brought to New York on Wednesday to face charges of killing two women in the 1970s, the Manhattan district attorney's office said. Read more »

The Coast Guard believes there could be a link between a hoax distress call reporting a yacht explosion off New Jersey earlier this month and a mayday call in Texas last month, an official said... Read more »

Sometimes a cigar isn't just a cigar. Read more »