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The superintendent and three current or former city school officials in Steubenville, Ohio, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges filed following a grand jury investigation of the August 2012 [...]

Texas, Oklahoma and West Virginia are now complying with an order from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel requiring state National Guard units to process federal marriage benefits for same-sex spouses of [...]

On the morning of Sept. 3, the first day the Pentagon said they could, Alicia Butler and her wife, Judith Chedville, who is a Texas Army National Guard officer, went [...]

WALTHAM, Mass. -- It was the most brazen crime in the memory of this Boston suburb: three men murdered with knife slashes to their throats in a second-floor apartment at [...]

BOSTON -- In his first public appearance since he was captured hiding in a boat in a Boston suburb almost three months ago, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the [...]

BOSTON -- Kevin Weeks, once a surrogate son of the notorious South Boston crime boss James (Whitey) Bulger, issued a threat from the witness stand to Mr. Bulger's lawyer in [...]

BOSTON -- Brian Halloran had a head so big he was known as Balloonhead to South Boston hoodlums like Kevin Weeks. So when Mr. Halloran got up to leave a [...]

One lingering mystery in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings is whether the dead suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, played a role in the unsolved murders of three men, one of [...]

When Katherine Russell arrived as a freshman at Suffolk University just over five years ago, she seemed to bond so well with her new roommates in their lively dorm opposite [...]

On one covert video, farm workers illegally burn the ankles of Tennessee walking horses with chemicals. Another captures workers in Wyoming punching and kicking pigs and flinging piglets into the [...]

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- The rape trial that concluded here on Sunday with the conviction of two high school football stars has spurred calls in many quarters for expanding -- or [...]

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- Two high school football stars were found guilty on Sunday of raping a 16-year-old girl last summer in a case that drew national attention for the way [...]

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- A 16-year-old girl who prosecutors say was raped by two high school football stars here last August after a night of drinking took the witness stand on [...]

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio -- In a case that came to light through social media, the second day in the trial of two high school football stars accused of raping a drunken [...]

At rallies with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the aides like to play loud, loud music before and after campaign events, the volume drowning any conversation. So it was [...]

Who knew that fact-checking the sole foreign policy debate of the presidential campaign would include the ranking of Massachusetts schools and how best to administer Medicaid? Repeatedly, the two candidates [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPresident Obama and Mitt Romney finally found something they could agree on during Thursday night's 67th annual Al Smith white-tie charity dinner: Jokes about Vice President Joseph R. Biden [...]

ATHENS, Ohio -- President Obama and Mitt Romney retreated to different corners of the electoral ring on Wednesday, a day after going toe-to-toe on Long Island. But both kept flinging [...]

At the second presidential debate, everyone played fact-checker. President Obama said, ''Not true, Governor Romney'' to dismiss his rival's charge that oil and gas production permits and licenses on federal [...]

VANDALIA, Ohio -- For the first time in almost a month, Mitt Romney reunited on Tuesday with the man who many Republicans thought would charge up the presidential campaign: Representative [...]

WOODBRIDGE, Va. -- President Obama traded charges with Representative Paul D. Ryan on Friday over the financing of Medicare, as each candidate sought to appeal to older voters by warning [...]

Amid the fallout over Mitt Romney's comments that 47 percent of Americans believed they were 'victims' and are dependent upon government, the Republican Party is stepping up attacks that President [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai's determination to make a close aide, Asadullah Khalid, his next intelligence chief has divided Western officials here, some of whom say they are troubled [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An American commander's decision to suspend the training of new Afghan Local Police recruits for at least a month was the first tap on the brakes for [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The training of Afghan Local Police and Afghan special operations forces, which account for about 7 percent of all Afghan security forces, has been put on hold [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers staged what appeared to be a carefully coordinated attack southwest of Kabul on Saturday that killed at least a dozen Afghans and wounded 58 [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Five Australian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan within hours of one another on Wednesday and Thursday, three of them at the hands of a turncoat Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has broadened a top-level cabinet shake-up, firing the country's spy chief on Wednesday and, according to Western officials, lining up replacements for [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- When the killing ended in northeast Helmand Province on Sunday, the only thing Afghan officials knew for certain was that the beheaded bodies of 15 men and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Even as attacks by Afghan security forces on NATO troops have become an increasing source of tension, new NATO data shows another sign of vulnerability for the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Even as the Afghan government said on Wednesday that it would take new measures to counter a wave of deadly insider killings of Western troops by Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents hiding outside the heavily fortified Bagram Air Base fired a pair of rockets early Tuesday that damaged the parked C-17 transport plane used by Gen. Martin [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban continued its strategy of trying to assassinate government officials in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three relatives of a police chief in Helmand Province, and trying [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After months of military leaders' attempts to tamp down worries over the killings of American and NATO troops by the Afghan forces serving beside them, Gen. John [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two American Special Forces members were shot to death on Friday by a new Afghan local police recruit they were training at a small outpost in western [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Seven American soldiers and three Afghan soldiers and an interpreter were killed after daybreak on Thursday when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Kandahar Province in southern [...]

Priorities USA Action, a ''super PAC'' supporting President Obama, released an advertisement on Tuesday suggesting that Mitt Romney's actions at Bain Capital indirectly contributed to a woman's death. ON SCREEN [...]

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- When Mitt Romney campaigned last week at one stop in Colorado, a key swing state whose governor and senators are Democrats, he sought to sell himself with [...]

WASHINGTON -- Senator Harry Reid's decision this week to hurl a taunting, unsubstantiated accusation at Mitt Romney is hardly out of character for the cantankerous Democratic leader of the Senate, [...]

BASALT, Colo. -- After a rocky trip to Europe and Israel in which his remarks drew complaints from British and Palestinian leaders, Mitt Romney flew Thursday to Colorado, an important [...]

A handful of deadly attacks ravaged parts of Pakistan this weekend and highlighted the multiple security challenges confronting the embattled Islamabad government, from violent vendettas by Taliban militants to sectarian […]

A judge in Sargodha on Friday ordered that five Muslim Americans suspected of pursuing jihadist training in Pakistan remain in custody for another 10 days so the police could continue […]

President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that Afghanistan would not be able to pay for its own security until at least 2024, underscoring his government's long-term financial dependence on the United […]

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan faces a decisive test of his pledge to reduce corruption and cronyism when he names members of his new government as early as Tuesday, Afghan […]

In the first major military operation since President Obama's call this week for a troop escalation, about 1,000 United States Marines and Afghan and British forces swept into a rugged […]

An American military official said Wednesday that the bulk of new combat forces approved by President Obama would be sent to southern Afghanistan, an area including Helmand and Kandahar Provinces […]

The country's leading opposition political figure strongly criticized the United Nations on Saturday, accusing its top official here of refusing to properly investigate reports of widespread voting fraud that seriously […]

The United Nations fired its No. 2 official in Afghanistan on Wednesday after the diplomat, Peter W. Galbraith, wrote a scathing letter accusing the head of the mission here of […]

A car bomb narrowly missed Afghanistan's energy minister as he was driving through the western city of Herat to the airport on Sunday morning, in what a Taliban spokesman described […]

A roadside bomb and assault-rifle fire killed four United States soldiers and a Marine in three attacks in southern Afghanistan, where new American brigades are pressing offensives against a resilient […]