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Havana, Cuba -- A young Cuban man slouched against his city's famous sea wall, enjoying fall's cool breeze and thinking about the world little more than 90 miles north. "A lot of people died in that sea trying to make it to the other side," Yoandri Perez, 20, said, while resting along the...

U.S. man allegedly wanted to join Taliban NEW YORK, -- A 21-year-old American was charged Monday with lying to authorities about his intentions to go to Pakistan to join a terrorist group. A federal criminal complaint unsealed in New York charges Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, a former Staten...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/10/23/sot.wiki.presser.assange.cnn London, England -- Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged the Iraqi and U.S. governments to launch investigations into reports of torture and detainee abuse after the WikiLeaks website published thousands of classified...

A 26-year-old member of the U.S. national swimming team died Saturday during an open-water race in the United Arab Emirates, according to event officials. Fran Crippen died during the last leg of the 10-kilometer Marathon Swimming World Cup in Fujairah, said the International Swimming...

Women will begin serving on four U.S. submarines in December 2011, the U.S. Navy announced Thursday. Twenty-four are in training to be the first women to serve aboard U.S. submarines, the Navy's Submarine Group 10 said in a statement. The subs on which they will deploy are the USS Wyoming and...

'G6' tops U.S. record chart LOS ANGELES, -- Far*East Movement's "Like a G6" is No. 1 on the U.S. record chart, Billboard.com reported Thursday. Coming in at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 is Bruno Mars's "Just the Way You Are," followed by Nelly's "Just a Dream" at No. 3, Rihanna's "Only...

U.S. markets head higher Thursday NEW YORK, -- U.S. markets rose Thursday as a Labor Department report said first-time unemployment benefit claims fell by 23,000 in the week ending Oct. 16. The Conference Board said leading U.S. economic indicators for September rose 0.3 percent, beating...

1 in 5 U.S. statisticians work for feds WASHINGTON, -- The U.S. Census Bureau celebrated World Statistics Day by releasing a lot of statistics Wednesday on the government fascination with numbers. For example, there were 29,208 statisticians in the United States in 2009, 20 percent of...

A Georgia man has been indicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a 20-year-old passenger while she was asleep during a flight from Dallas, Texas, to Atlanta, Georgia, federal authorities said Wednesday. The woman said she awoke during the September 28 Delta flight to discover Ranchhodbhai...

Spc. Neftaly Platero has been charged with premeditated murder in the deaths of two fellow soldiers. The Army has charged a U.S. soldier who was serving in Iraq with premeditated murder in the deaths of two comrades, the U.S. military command in Baghdad said Wednesday. A verbal altercation...

Washington -- As the Obama administration begins three days of talks with Pakistani leaders, the two sides will seek to ease tensions over the muscular new U.S. strategy in the region. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the Pakistani army...

Washington -- The wife of David Headley twice warned the U.S. embassy about her husband, now convicted of aiding the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, but a senior US official denied that the warnings were ignored. "She expressed concern about individuals that her husband was hanging around...

- U.S. Olympian LaShawn Merritt, a gold medalist in track and field, was suspended Monday after testing positive for banned steriods almost a year ago, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. Merritt tested positive for DHEA last year, was placed on a provisional suspension and was...

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Kabul, Afghanistan -- Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, but are not together, a senior NATO official said. "Nobody in al Qaeda is living in a cave," said the official, who declined to be named because...

U.S. opens trade probe on China WASHINGTON, -- The Obama administration said it would investigate Chinese support for clean energy industries in a probe prompted by a United Steelworkers Union complaint. The United Steelworkers Union filed a 5,000-page trade complaint against China Sept...

Three U.S. banks closed WASHINGTON, -- U.S. regulators said they had taken over three banks this week in the center of the country, but arranged for asset transfers to keep their branches open. Two of the closed banks are in Missouri, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The...

Havana, Cuba -- Amnesty International has questioned the fairness of a U.S. trial that convicted five Cuban agents of espionage, conspiracy to commit murder and other related charges. In a report issued earlier this week, the London-based human rights group described a "prejudicial impact of...

Roddick suffers another early departure NEW YORK, -- Andy Roddick completed a disappointing year of grand slam events Wednesday by falling to Janko Tipsarevic in the second round of the U.S. Open. Roddick, seeded ninth, failed to get past the quarterfinals in any of the four major...