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A Colorado mother is being held in Ireland as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to kill a cartoonist who poked fun at the Prophet Mohammad, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for a federal probe into the system of background checks for employees at nuclear plants after learning that a suspected al Qaeda member from New Jersey worked at five such sites.
A series of explosions rocked southern Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province today, killing at least 35 people and wounding 47 others, local officials said.
More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul today for "minor stomach troubles," the state-run Yonhap news agency reported.
Is the Coffee Party on the scale of the Tea Party movement? Saturday is the first big test in attempting to answer that question.