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For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the girl's mother offered her for sex.
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The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops said Monday that church leaders have a duty to the nation and God to raise moral concerns in the debate over health care, whether the issue is abortion rights or coverage for the poor.
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Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a new study.
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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Monday that she will move swiftly to correct problems highlighted in a new report on workplace safety that raises concerns about widespread underreporting of injuries and illnesses on the job.
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Afghanistan's new anti-corruption unit drew guarded praise Monday from a wary international community, which has heard President Hamid Karzai promise before to end the graft and thievery bleeding his nation.
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hosted a soiree in Rome for about 200 young Italian women. But instead of enjoying the party they expected, the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said Monday.
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The wrenching saga of Elizabeth Smart's abduction and improbable recovery is showing the first signs of resolution seven years after it began.
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The Taliban had set a trap for the tiny company of Afghan soldiers here, its handful of U.S. mentors and the American helicopters that they expected would rush in help.
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Sarah Palin said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that it's heartbreaking to see the road that Levi Johnston, the father of her grandson, has taken and that the soon-to-be Playgirl model hasn't seen his baby in awhile.
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A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to have him removed from the plane.
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Reality TV personalities Heidi and Spencer Pratt said Monday they want to branch out from MTV's "The Hills" and star in their own reality show to give viewers a bigger peek into their lives.
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Chicago's school board president apparently shot himself in the head near the Chicago River before dawn Monday, officials said.
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George Holding, the Republican-appointed U.S. attorney for North Carolina's eastern district, expressed angst about changes in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which includes North Carolina.
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Several times every year, Teodoro Nguema Obiang arrives at the doorstep of the United States from his home in Equatorial Guinea, on his way to his $35 million estate in Malibu, Calif., his fleet of luxury cars, his speedboats and private jet.
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Chelsea Gibbs was a teenager when her mother taught her the importance of monthly breast self-exams. Forgive her if she's less than impressed with new guidelines that defy her mother's advice and 40 years of public health education.
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More than 15million taxpayers could unexpectedly owe taxes when they file their federal returns next spring because the government was too generous with their new Making Work Pay tax credit.
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International inspectors who gained access to Iran's newly revealed underground nuclear enrichment plant voiced strong suspicions in a report Monday that the country is concealing other atomic facilities.
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An influential federal panel said that most women under 50 do not need routine mammograms -- a direct contradiction to long-standing advice from doctors and cancer groups.
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Some people in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs.
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The event was called a town hall, but President Barack Obama's meeting with about 500 students in this Chinese city on Monday had little in common with the sometimes raucous exchanges that have become a fixture of American politics.
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