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The Obama administration's special Mideast envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell, is stepping down after more than two years of trying to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, a U.S.

More than 22,000 would-be immigrants thought they won a visa lottery to come to the U.S. Not so fast.The State Department said Friday that it is scratching the results because of a computer glitch.

Federal engineers are close to opening a massive spillway that would flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Louisiana Cajun country to try to protect heavily populated Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the bulging Mississippi RiverWith that threat looming, some 25,000 people in an area of the s

For years the Sangin District in southern Afghanistan has been one of the deadliest areas of operation. For the British, who controlled the area until U.S.

At least 80 people were killed and more than 100 wounded Friday in double suicide bombings in the northwest Pakistani city of Charsadda.It was the deadliest attack ever on Pakistan's Frontier Constabulary, a force that supports local police in the troubled Northwest Frontier.

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There are more than 280 million cellphone subscribers in the U.S., and many of those phones can record video. With so many cameras in pockets and purses, clashes between police and would-be videographers may be inevitable.Consider what happened to Khaliah Fitchette.