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Supporters of California's gay marriage ban are appealing a ruling that a U.S. judge's own gay relationship was no basis for tossing out his decision in support of same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco last year struck down California's same-sex marriage ban...

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander claimed on Tuesday that his country has the ability to produce missiles with an even greater range than those currently in its arsenal. But Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Guard's Aerospace Force, stressed that Tehran will not manufacture such...

Washington (CNN) -- As the House of Representatives debated about possibly cutting funding for the U.S. military's role in support of the NATO campaign in Libya, American warplanes, manned and unmanned, continue to attack targets inside the north African nation, the Pentagon said Friday. Just...

(CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plans for a U.S. troops drawdown and said it's a sign that Afghanistan is ready to take control of security in the war-torn nation. "The number of troops that he has announced to be withdrawn is a sign...

AO PAULO – An American on the U.S. Marshals' list of most-wanted sex offenders has been captured in Brazil. A spokesman for Brazil's federal police says officers in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday captured Kenneth Andrew Craig. The U.S. Embassy has confirmed the arrest. The U.S. Marshals' website...

NEW YORK – A U.S. judge Friday dismissed all criminal charges against Osama bin Laden following the al Qaeda leader's death in a military raid in Pakistan. U.S. District Court judge Lewis Kaplan, who had been presiding over the bin Laden case in Manhattan federal court, issued an order called...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – About 20 pro-independence demonstrators have kept an all-night vigil at a colonial fort in Puerto Rico to protest during President Barack Obama's visit to the island. Demonstrators are on the grounds of the San Cristobal Fort on the edge of Old San Juan. The fort is part...

BETHESDA, Md. – Golf's second major championship of the year seems to have a new name. It's the U.S. Wide Open. Only a small part of that is because of Tiger Woods. He's not at Congressional because of injuries to his left leg, and he has been missing from the top of leaderboards for more than...

NEW YORK – Exclusive: Obama's Secret Afghan Exit FormulaObama is keeping under wraps a hush-hush plan for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan—and he hopes it will satisfy those pushing for a quick exit and the diehards determined to stay the course, Leslie H. Gelb reports exclusively. By...

BRUSSELS America's military alliance with Europe — the cornerstone of U.S. security policy for six decades — faces a "dim, if not dismal" future, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday in a blunt valedictory address. In his final policy speech as Pentagon chief, Gates questioned the...

Washington (CNN) -- The rebel government in control of the eastern part of Libya has made its first sale of oil from territory it controls, the State Department confirmed Wednesday. Tesoro, a U.S. oil refiner, entered into a deal May 25 with the Transitional National Council based in Benghazi...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Tiger Woods pulled out of the U.S. Open on Tuesday because of lingering issues with his left leg, leaving him uncertain how soon he can resume his pursuit of Jack Nicklaus' record for major titles. It will be the first time Woods has missed the U.S. Open since 1994, when he...

Washington (CNN) -- The United States cannot confirm that al Qaeda operational commander Ilyas Kashmiri is dead, Defense Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday, contradicting Pakistan's prime minister. "There's no confirmation," Toner told reporters at the Defense Department's daily...

Baghdad (CNN) -- At least 25 people, including five U.S. soldiers, have died in a series of explosions across Iraq on Monday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The deadliest attack Monday was in Tikrit, where a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a security checkpoint...

BAGHDAD – Five American troops serving as advisers to Iraqi security police in eastern Baghdad were killed Monday when rockets slammed into the compound where they lived. The deaths were the largest single-day loss of life for American forces in two years. The U.S. military announced the deaths...

SEOUL, -- South Korean officials say an inspection is under way at former U.S. military bases to see if they are contaminated with dangerous chemicals. The Gyeonggi Institute of Health and Environment, a body under the Gyeonggi provincial government in Gyeonggi Province, said it would...

<div>Manitoba's "angry rhetoric" on a dispute with its U.S. neighbour embittered officials south of the border and made for a "terribly strained" relationship, American diplomatic documents released through WikiLeaks suggest. The documents shed new light on the longstanding spat between Canada...

(CNN) -- The man described by counterterrorism officials as al Qaeda's "military brain," Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in a drone strike Friday night in Pakistan, a spokesman for his group, the jihadist Harakat-ul-Jihad-Islami, said. Pakistani and U.S. officials, however, said they have not...

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(CNN) -- A virulent strain of E. coli that has killed 18 people in Europe has not affected produce in the United States, according to food safety and health officials who conceded Friday there's much to learn about the organism. Even as efforts continue to determine what caused the outbreak...