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(CNN) -- Eman al-Obeidy, the woman who caught the world's attention when she accused members of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces of gang-raping her, arrived Monday at a refugee facility in Romania. Al-Obeidy had fled Libya and was awaiting resettlement as a refugee in Qatar when she was...

<div>The humble hubcap, it turns out, makes an excellent canvas. Over the past three years, Marquis, 60, has persuaded artists from every state and 52 countries to transform discarded metal and plastic wheel coverings into objects of wonder and whimsy. He

Even though a circuit court judge on Thursday struck down Wisconsin's law stripping nearly all collective bargaining power from most public workers, she won't have the final say in the union fight that has captivated the nation. The state Supreme Court will decide on June 6 whether it will...

(CNN) -- The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that $500 million must be restored to the state's poorest school districts after it found part of Gov. Chris Christie's controversial 2011 budget to be unconstitutional. "Today's ruling by the state Supreme Court is disappointing, but not...

Los Angeles (CNN) -- California officials said Tuesday they won't arbitrarily free 33,000 inmates and they will submit plans to the federal courts in two weeks specifying ways to remedy prison overcrowding under a U.S. Supreme Court order this week. "The goal is not to release anybody early,"...

PUEBLO, Colo. -- 8 state workers from a document processing center showed up at a hospital in Pueblo complaining of eye and skin irritations and nausea Friday afternoon, symptoms consistent with exposure to hazardous materials. Pueblo County emergency authorities say several people in the...

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Crowds of Libyans took to the streets of Tripoli in the early hours of Thursday, honking horns and dancing in the streets in support of the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi. More than 100 people outside the headquarters of state television chanted "God, Moammar and Libya...

Mexico City (CNN) -- Mexican authorities said they found and detained more than 500 illegal immigrants from Central America and Asia who were crammed inside two tractor-trailers heading toward the United States on Tuesday. X-ray equipment detected the immigrants at checkpoints in the southern...

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine, -- Maine State Police said Sunday they were investigating the death of an unidentified young boy whose body was found along a remote road. The body was discovered by a resident in South Berwick about 5 p.m. Saturday, the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland reported. The child...

OAXACA, Mexico – Violence motivated by an electoral dispute between indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca has left at least eight people dead. State authorities say the violence occurred near the town of Santiago Choapan, about six hours from the state capital. A mayoral...

SALT LAKE CITY – The state of Utah filed a lawsuit Friday against the federal government over an Obama administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert called the plan a "midnight ambush." He agreed...

CUERNAVACA, Mexico – Police found the bodies of six men and one woman inside a car abandoned Monday in an exclusive gated community near the picturesque central Mexican city of Cuernavaca. Morelos state police said officers found three bodies inside the car and four more in the trunk in the...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican police have captured the alleged leader of a drug gang that calls itself "The Resistance," a group that operates in western Mexico, officials said Monday. Victor Torres Garcia was detained in the Michoacan state city of Uruapan, along with two alleged associates, several...

MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, quickly becoming a darling of Republicans across the country for his plan to take away most collective bargaining rights from public workers, will get another chance to bolster his national conservative credentials when he unveils the rest of his plan...

-- Lots of state officials are pressing public employees to shoulder more of their health care and pension costs. But in some places -- notably Wisconsin and Ohio -- officials are looking to go one step farther. Governors and lawmakers there are trying to limit or end public workers' collective...

-- President Barack Obama will make a state visit to the United Kingdom May 24-26, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced Thursday. Carney said the trip would be Obama's first European state visit, illustrating "the strength of the special relationship between our two countries, and...

-- The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to take up the issue of whether state or county officials have the authority to defend Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative defining marriage as only between one man and one woman, court spokeswoman Lynn Holton said. The state court...

-- The number of dead in clashes in Southern Sudan has more than doubled, an official said. At least 211 people have been killed in recent attacks by breakaway militias loyal to George Athor, Southern Sudan's Humanitarian Minister James Kok said in a statement late Tuesday. Earlier reports put...

Calling state oversight of an abortion clinic where at least one mother and seven viable babies died "despicable," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett fired a half-dozen employees and announced changes Tuesday in two departments. The Department of Health and the Department of State have primary...

-- The top security official in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon was found shot dead and burned inside a truck in the city of Monterrey, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing state officials. The governor's office confirmed the death of Homero Guillermo Salcido Trevino, head of the...