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Battling back

Guardsman torn up by mortar blast wants people to fathom ordeal of recovery.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:03 AM | Full story

Blackwater survives rough time

Amid investigations and lawsuits, military contractor gets new business and grows..

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:03 AM | Full story

Obese kids face life of problems

Health, psychological issues more likely.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:03 AM | Full story

Crime pays for those who rat out suspects

To gas prices, foreclosure rates and the cost of rice, add this rising economic indicator: the number of tips to the police from people hoping to collect reward money.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:03 AM | Full story

Female fans lament Clinton camp's slide

Philipina Heintzman, 81, drove 80 miles across the South Dakota prairie to experience history in the making: a woman running for president, something she never dreamed as a child that she would live to see.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

More delegates go to Obama

Sen. Barack Obama inched closer to securing the Democratic presidential nomination with delegate pickups in Nevada, Kansas and Maryland.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Kennedy resting after seizure

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the lone surviving son in a famed political family who helped define national Democratic Party politics, suffered a seizure at his Cape Cod home Saturday. He was recovering in good spirits at a Boston hospital.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Astrologers to predict president

Picking a winner of the presidential contest is front and center at what's being billed as the largest astrologers' convention in years.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

UVA finds keys to success

Graduation rate high among blacks.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

More docs admit to errors

They find integrity in honest regret.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Train wreck, spill prompt evacuations

Six cars of a freight train derailed Saturday, including one that began leaking hydrochloric acid, prompting thousands to evacuate homes, businesses and a nursing home within one mile of the wreck.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Man shoots 3 at church festival

A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a church festival Saturday, wounding his ex-wife and two bystanders before festival-goers grabbed him and held him for police, authorities and a church official said.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Large, government-backed gay-rights rally held in Cuba

Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness -- and high-ranking political alliances -- with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on Saturday.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Kuwaitis might vote for change

Kuwaitis voted Saturday for a parliament that could include women for the first time and which many hope will end two years of political wrangling that has created widespread disgust with politics.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

Dominican leader wins a third term

Dominican President Leonel Fernandez coasted to a third term in office, vowing Saturday to push ahead with policies he says have lifted the Caribbean nation's economy from crisis.

Updated: May. 18, 2008 2:02 AM | Full story

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Unrest in Tibet

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Crisis in Pakistan

New blog: McClatchy correspondents report on Pakistan's political turmoil.

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