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Military deaths: The obituary in the April 28 California section about the death of Sgt. 1st Class James F. Grissom said he was a member of an Army airborne Special Services battalion. He was a member of an airborne Special Forces group. Sneaks list: A...

ALGIERS, April 28 (Reuters) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to France for further medical tests, Algeria's official news agency, APS, said. The news agency said late on Saturday that Bouteflika was in Paris at the...

BOSTON (AP) — Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: he'd just been read his constitutional rights. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev immediately stopped talking after a...

Liberals, get ready: Ed Schultz is back to fight the good fight with you. The scrappy host -- who once called Laura Ingraham "a right-wing slut" (he later apologized) -- will return to the MSNBC lineup with a weekend show starting May 11. Fans were...

BOSTON -- The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings acknowledged to the FBI his role in the attacks, but did so before he was advised of his constitutional rights to keep quiet and seek a lawyer, officials said Wednesday.  It is unclear...

* U.N. says "unilateral decision" taken by authorities * Bahrain says it requested postponent, gave no reason * Gulf state's human rights record under harsh spotlight By Yara Bayoumy DUBAI, April 25 (Reuters) - The U.N. torture investigator said...

Garment workers in Bangladesh were so uneasy about the cracks in their building that as many as 2,500 refused to enter Tuesday, according to a labor rights group. Activists say the building's owner and several factory managers assured the workers that...

The Associated Press' main Twitter account was taken over Tuesday by hackers who sent out a fake tweet saying two explosions had gone off at the White House, injuring President Obama. Within minutes, the real AP used other accounts at its disposal to...

Hackers who support Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed responsibility Tuesday for hijacking an Associated Press Twitter account and falsely tweeting that explosions were rattling the White House. "Ops! @AP get owned by Syrian Electronic Army! #SEA...

MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - Damascus will not use chemical weapons against its own citizens, or in the event of war with its neighbour Israel, Syria's Information Minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday. A senior Israeli intelligence officer said...

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Does Twitter have a credibility problem? For many, a single fake tweet from the Associated Press account that briefly roiled financial markets on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down...

CNN has always thrived during high-interest breaking-news stories. Friday's conclusion of the Boston bombing manhunt was no exception. The cable news network scored its best overall day across all TV-rating categories since the Iraq War 10 years ago....