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NEW YORK – Hundreds of gay and lesbian parents hoping to take their families to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll plan to start lining up Friday evening to make sure they get tickets for the Monday event. Thousands of tickets — an estimated 16,000 last year — are …

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that crude oil prices were still below their “real value,” and developed countries were benefiting the most from high oil prices, state-run Tehran radio reported. “The global oil price has not reached its real value yet. The products derived from crude oil …

WASHINGTON – Rep. Cynthia McKinney accused a Capitol Police officer of “inappropriate touching” on Friday as rumors flew around Capitol Hill that the Georgia Democrat would be arrested for her role in a bizarre physical altercation. “This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Several key Taliban leaders and about 50 fighters have been killed in a NATO-led operation to clear militants from Afghanistan’s violence-plagued south, officials said Wednesday. Afghan forces are participating in the offensive in Kandahar’s Panjwayi and Zhari districts, where NATO’s biggest ground battle in its history — …

SEATTLE – The death toll from the Northwest’s worst windstorm in more than a decade climbed to 10 Monday, while nearly a quarter million homes and businesses remained without power in hard-hit western Washington. At least 100 people have developed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning blamed on the use of …

CAIRO, Egypt – Engineers on Friday moved the giant statue of Pharaoh Ramses II from a congested square in downtown Cairo to its new home near the more peaceful Great Pyramids. Contractors moved the more than 3,200-year-old statue from Ramses Square in an effort to save it from exhaust fumes …

LEXINGTON, Mass. – It’s over budget, Paul Pedini says of his Big Dig house, but at least “it doesn’t leak.” Pedini wants the home — built using steel and concrete salvaged from Boston’s $14.6 billion highway construction project — to be a prototype for recycling. “These materials are as good …

CARACAS, Venezuela – Political opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched through Venezuela’s capital on Saturday demanding that elections authorities take measures to guarantee a fair presidential vote in December. Waving placards reading “Open the Ballot Boxes!” and chanting anti-Chavez slogans, roughly 300 protesters marched across Caracas to the National Elections …

RALEIGH, N.C. – Thomas Hodge knew there was something unusual about the snarling fox that continued to charge him. “I knew when it started coming towards me, something wasn’t right, when it kept coming back,” he said. “Foxes don’t just come at ya, especially after you kick it a few …