Gary Goy

From a desert outpost northwest of Las Vegas, elite fighter pilots journey to a war zone in Afghanistan, some 7,500 miles away.

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British police have charged a 33-year-old man with murder and arson in the deaths of two French students last week, Scotland Yard announced Wednesday.

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Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy on Wednesday made his first appearance in Congress since being diagnosed with brain cancer nearly two months ago, casting a single vote to help break a Republican filibuster of an important Medicare bill.

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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was flown to a Las Vegas hospital after his jail guards noticed he appeared to be feverish and convulsing, Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan said Wednesday.

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for “crude and hurtful” remarks he made about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after finishing an interview with a Fox News correspondent.

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Seven members of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping patrol have been killed by a heavily armed militia group in Sudan’s Darfur region, the U.N. said.

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Iran’s test of a long-range missile shows the need for the United States to expand its missile defense system into Europe, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.

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The Senate Wednesday passed controversial legislation meant to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

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Recently developed “touch DNA” technology has cleared all members of JonBenet Ramsey’s family of her slaying, authorities said Wednesday.

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Thousands of people living in Paradise are fleeing their small northern California town Wednesday as wildfires charge into the area, officials said.

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