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Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lashes out at Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez lashed out at Germany's chancellor on Sunday, suggesting her party shares the political ideals of Adolf Hitler. Chavez criticized Angela Merkel...

Obama turns focus to race against McCain, as Clinton struggles

WASHINGTON - U-S Democatic presidential contender Barack Obama turned his focus to the expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain Sunday, but Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to keep her...

American families will make case for a vaccine link to autism in children

WASHINGTON - Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court. They seek vindicat...

Over 20 dead in Mo., Okla., Ga. after new round of storms

PICHER, Okla. - Crews and search dogs hunted Sunday for survivors or bodies in piles of debris after tornadoes and storms rumbled across the region a day earlier and killed at least 21 people in three...

At least 11 dead after overloaded Haitian ferry sinks off southern coast

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U-N and Haitian authorities say an overloaded ferry has sunk off the Caribbean country's southern coast, killing at least 11 people. A U-N peacekeeping mission official says...

Prosecutor agrees to drop death penalty to get suspect back

EASLEY, S.C. - Pickens County's chief prosecutor says he made a deal with Canadian authorities not to seek the death penalty so he could get a suspect returned to the state to stand trial on a murder ...

From jail to a job: One mother's quest to keep her baby

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Raechelle Romero was always running from something, starting at 15: from tough relationships with her dad and stepmother, foster homes, abusive boyfriends. Eventually, the troub...

Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first internati...