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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Lebanese fear all-out war, but hope for political compromise

BEIRUT - Lebanon hung between fears of all-out civil war and hopes of political compromise Sunday even as government supporters and opponents battled with rockets and machine-guns in the mountains ove...

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...

Bloated bodies litter Myanmar, forgotten in fight for survival after cyclone

As the bloated bodies rise and fall with the current on the Pyapon River, women scrub clothes along the river bank, villagers bathe to cool themselves and a lone child sits on a dock staring aimlessly...

Zimbabwe election official says delay likely in presidential run-off vote

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The presidential run-off election pitting President Robert Mugabe against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not take place in the next few weeks as required by law, the head ...

President Bush describes his daughter Jenna's wedding as 'spectacular'

WACO, Texas - President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush didn't share their daughter's wedding with the world on Saturday. But Bush eagerly shared their joy on Sunday over the marriage of d...