More than 20 horses were intentionally poisoned with toxic leaves in southern California this week, authorities said Friday.

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A 16-year-old Hong Kong boy makes two phone calls for delivery: one for pizza, the other for the drug ketamine. Two teenage girls are found semi-conscious in a car park in the southern Chinese enclave after overdosing on ketamine. A 13-year-old boy joins a gang and is given free ketamine.

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North Korean officials confirmed that they have captured a South Korean vessel that had strayed into North Korean waters, the country’s state-run news agency reported Saturday.

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A key House committee passed comprehensive health care reform legislation Friday, moving President Obama’s domestic priority one step closer to congressional approval.

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Humza Ismail hasn’t spent much time in Raleigh, North Carolina, since he started graduate school two years ago. But when he heard two former acquaintances were arrested on terrorism charges this week, he says, “Honestly, I wasn’t surprised.”

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Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino, whose “People Power” movement pushed out longtime strongman Ferdinand Marcos less than three years after her husband’s assassination, has died at age 76, her family announced Saturday.

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One of the nine U.S. attorneys whose firings sparked a political uproar during the Bush administration is getting a second chance at the job.

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Two Democratic senators called on the Pentagon to take back more than $83 million in bonuses paid to military contractor KBR after a Defense Department report criticized its electrical work on U.S. bases overseas.

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And now, the rejects.

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While the coroner’s report on what killed Michael Jackson has been delayed indefinitely, new evidence emerged that the singer shopped for a doctor who would give him the drug investigators suspect led to his death.

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