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    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 06:10 PM PST
    A Guatemalan woman who lost custody of her son after she was caught up in a 2007 immigration sweep has asked a court to overturn his adoption by a Missouri couple.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 06:00 PM PST
    President Barack Obama has paid a visit to Indonesia's largest mosque, one of the largest of its kind in southeast Asia.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 04:50 PM PST
    Former Carter administration White House counsel Robert Jerome Lipshutz has died. He was 88. Lipshutz's son, Randy, said his father died Saturday at an Atlanta hospice from complications from a blood clot.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:50 PM PST
    The waterfalls of the Sept. 11 memorial at ground zero are showing signs of life.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:40 PM PST
    Former President George W. Bush says a phrase that haunted him after Hurricane Katrina -- "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" -- was inspired by a statement of praise for his embattled FEMA chief from Alabama's governor.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:40 PM PST
    A Corvallis couple woke Monday to find a naked stranger in their closet. Police said 21-year-old Nicholas Buekea snuck out of a friend's basement apartment, climbed around a locked door to access a staircase and made his way to a third-floor apartment.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:32 PM PST
    Investigators believe a cat who liked to sleep on top of a toaster oven started a kitchen fire in Port Townsend by depressing the toaster lever. Lois Lund told The Peninsula Daily News she doesn't hold a grudge against her cat Osiris. Lund said he had been sleeping on top of the oven to avoid a pet dog and probably ...
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:21 PM PST
    Federal agents have arrested three retired Marines suspected of selling illegal assault weapons to a notorious Los Angeles street gang, The Associated Press has learned.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:12 PM PST
    An Ohio teen has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty just before opening statements were to begin in his trial on charges that he stole a baby alpaca and beat it to death.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:40 PM PST
    The Justice Department inspector general says a federal campaign against the smuggling of high-powered guns used in Mexico's deadly drug cartel war focuses too much on small-time gunrunners instead of larger trafficking groups.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:30 PM PST
    A toxic plume of chromium has spread to multiple groundwater wells near the California desert town made famous by the movie "Erin Brockovich."
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:11 PM PST
    A Mexican man went on trial Tuesday on federal charges of masterminding a sex trafficking scheme by luring young women to the Atlanta area with the false promises of better lives, good jobs and even romance.

    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:05 PM PST
    A federal appellate court says a Colorado voter-approved amendment that limits campaign contributions from small groups is unconstitutional.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:00 PM PST
    A leading House Republican says Sarah Palin cost the GOP control of the Senate. Questioned about those comments on Tuesday, a spokesman for Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama said the remarks had been taken out of context but didn't retract them.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:13 PM PST
    Barack Obama marveled at the sights and sounds -- the rickshaws, the cramped taxis -- still vivid in his memories of boyhood in this Asian nation. More than four decades later, the president said it was "a little disorienting" to see the sprawling, built-up capital.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:13 PM PST
    A Minnesota family on a pizza run bagged a deer instead when a small buck struck by an oncoming car flew through their windshield and out their rear window.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:13 PM PST
    Federal authorities in New York say two funds created to provide relief for cash-strapped Holocaust survivors were raided for more than $42 million with the help of several people who were supposed to administer the funds.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 11:31 AM PST
    A man who came to the United States from war-torn Yugoslavia 16 years ago and applied for political asylum when faced with deportation may finally be forced to leave the country because he was 40 minutes late to a 1995 immigration hearing.
    Posted: 09 Nov 2010 11:25 AM PST
    A federal appeals court is hearing arguments concerning the sentence of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal (moo-MEE'-ah AH'-boo jah-MAHL').