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American gets back art taken by Nazis during WWII

PARIS: The last time Tom Selldorff saw his grandfather’s prized art collection he was six in 1930s Vienna, before it fell into Nazi hands. Now,

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Hagel meets Karzai after security threat, friction

KABUL, Afghanistan: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagelencountered political tension with the Afghan president and a series of security problems during his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, but he met

Scientists say baby born with HIV apparently cured

WASHINGTON: A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now 2½ and

Kerry says US releasing millions in aid to Egypt

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid

Crews begin demolition of Fla. home over sinkhole

SEFFNER, Fla.: Crews with heavy equipment on Sunday began the demolition of a Florida home over a huge sinkhole where a man is presumed dead after being swallowed by the

Three die in shooting, fiery crash on Las Vegas Strip

LAS VEGAS: Three people died in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip early on Thursday when one or more gunmen in aRange Rover sport utility vehicle opened fire on

U.S. judge accepts BP collected 810,000 barrels in spill

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO: A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday that BP Plc recovered 810,000 barrels of oil from its 2010 spill site and that this amount should be excluded from certain

Havana restores monument to victims of USS Maine

HAVANA: It was a little before 10 p.m. that February night in 1898 when a fiery explosion roiled the normally calm waters of Havana Harbor, blowing out windows in the

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Obama uses SOTU message to push Congress on jobs, spending, guns

President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to prevent looming cuts to military and domestic programs scheduled to take place on March 1. Obama called the cuts—known in Washington as

Police: NY mom used kiss to give jailed son drugs

PENN YAN, N.Y. : Police say an upstate New York woman passed drugs to her son while kissing him when she visited him in jail. Sheriff’s deputies in Yates County