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American figure skater Johnny Wier says he doesn't understand why the only ice skating tour in the United States doesn't want him.

Corey Haim's death is linked to an "illegal and massive prescription-drug ring," California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.

A high school in Washington, D.C., is set to name a former women's professional football player as its head varsity football coach Friday, a move that a national women's sports advocacy group calls historic.

A special court ruled Friday that there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that vaccines caused autism in three cases.

A New York judge may approve a $657 million settlement Friday for workers who became ill after the 9/11 terrorists attacks.

A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's alliance led partial preliminary election results Saturday in Baghdad, where the most parliamentary seats are up for grabs, according to the electoral commission.

Six people were killed and 16 others injured in a suicide attack in northwest Pakistan, authorities said Saturday.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul on Saturday for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

The State Department condemned Iran's persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities' detention of Baha'is and Christians in recent months.

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President Obama has set them -- and they've repeatedly been missed. But with Easter recess coming, Obama's latest deadline to pass health care reform legislation could be his last one.

As House Democratic leaders advised their members Friday to prepare for a legislative battle over health care that could stretch through next weekend, four additional rank-and-file Democrats have come out against the Obama administration's signature domestic priority.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul on Saturday for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that Israel's announcement of new settlement construction in disputed territory in East Jerusalem was "insulting" to the United States.

On the second night of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" reunion special, the only remaining original "Housewife," Vicki Gunvalson, declared to host Andy Cohen that she would have to do "a lot of soul searching" before deciding whether she would return for a sixth season of the show.

A lot has changed for the Gosselin family in the past year: divorce, dating, drastic haircuts and, of course, "Dancing with the Stars."

"The Blind Side" could have been filmed anywhere, says Tim Bourne, an independent producer who worked on the film. But there's a reason producers brought the project to Georgia: money.

American figure skater Johnny Weir says he doesn't understand why the only ice skating tour in the United States doesn't want him.

Corey Haim's death is linked to an "illegal and massive prescription-drug ring," California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.

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CLEARWATER , Fla. (AP) -- The Minnesota Twins have signed center fielder Denard Span to a five-year, $16.5 million contract extension.

The company behind the Web browser Opera is weeks away from submitting it to Apple's iPhone store for approval, a spokesman said Friday.

They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave.

It's so tiny, you can't see it with the naked eye.

The sound of meditation for some people is full of deep breaths or gentle humming. For Marc Umile, it's "3.14159265358979..."

Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.

A special court ruled Friday that there is insufficient evidence to demonstrate that vaccines caused autism in three cases.

The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid underwent neck surgery Friday after being injured with their daughter in a four-vehicle wreck in suburban Washington a day earlier, her surgeon said.

A 33-year-old California teacher is charged with having sex with a 14-year-old student. Whatever strong bonds students and teachers may have, it's always the adult's responsibility to set boundaries, experts say.

Ethan Merbaum knows all too well the feeling of not getting a good night's rest, of lying in bed with nothing happening and being tired without being able to fall asleep. He knows all about watching his grades plummet and even about falling asleep in class.

Deaths from pregnancy and childbirth in the United States have doubled in the past 20 years, a development that a human rights group called "scandalous and disgraceful" Friday.