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NEW DELHI – Monsoon (search) floods in India’s western Gujarat (search) state have inundated more than 7,200 villages, left about 175,000 homeless and killed at least 131 people over the past week, officials and news reports said Sunday. One of the world’s 359 remaining Asiatic lions also was found drowned …

WASHINGTON – The average retail price for U.S. gasoline climbed to within a few pennies of the all-time high, while the cost for diesel fuel hit a new record, the government said on Tuesday. The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline increased 1.1 cents over the past week to …

WASHINGTON – Often times a balanced diet ends up costing more than cheap, on-the-go foods. In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, meals, which contains meats that are Muslim-approved, cost more than $12 per day. While Gitmo is a Department of Defense facility, the Department of Justice runs the federal Bureau of Prisons. …

WASHINGTON – The House voted Thursday to extend the USA Patriot Act (search), the nation’s main anti-terrorism tool, just hours after televisions in the Capitol beamed images of a new attack in London. As similar legislation worked its way through the Senate, House Republicans generally cast the law as a …

WASHINTON – The United States has resumed contact with North Korea (search) but the talks at a security conference in New York have not produced a decision to reopen negotiations on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Friday. The same two American diplomats who met secretly in May …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A man who authorities say could be the nation’s most prolific child molester was crafting a lengthy memoir about his sexual exploits with boys when he was arrested, police said. Authorities also said they have cracked “99 percent” of the detailed code that Dean Schwartzmiller (search) …

WASHINGTON – Journalist Matt Cooper (search) on Wednesday confirmed to a grand jury that White House aide Karl Rove (search) was his source for a story about a CIA operative that has investigators deciding whether any laws were broken by the leak of the agent’s identity. Cooper told reporters he …

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Judges on Tuesday handed down a rare maximum life sentence with no possibility of parole to the Dutch-born Muslim who confessed to — and expressed no regret for — shooting, stabbing and nearly decapitating filmmaker Theo van Gogh (search). The murder stunned the country, heightened ethnic tensions …

In the latest research to suggest that the popular cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are good for more than the heart, a new study hints that the medications may help curb the spread of HIV throughout the body. In the study of nearly 4,000 HIV-infected people, those taking statins tended …