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Political wrangling by Japan's new government over plans to move a major U.S. Marine base on Okinawa has opened a wide rift in Washington's most important Asian alliance ahead of President Barack Obama's visit later this week.
The Arena Football League is on the brink of folding and declaring bankruptcy, an inglorious end for the 22-year-old indoor league that has suffered through a year of turmoil.
Panama's former dictator Manuel Noriega asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to block his extradition to France to face money-laundering charges, contending that as a prisoner of war he must be allowed to return home.
His mother isn't in the picture. His illegal immigrant father was deported.
Prosecutors dropped charges on Tuesday against a former inmate who spent two decades on Tennessee's death row before the U.S. Supreme Court questioned his guilt.
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Manuel Noriega can be taken to France to face money laundering charges, rejecting the former Panamanian dictator's bid to return to his native country after serving a drug sentence in the U.S.
Testing has again failed to find DNA from a man who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row on evidence that will be used to retry him for a woman's murder, a lab report shows.
The world's economic shadows caught up with Employee No. 861 at the lip of a construction site on Dubai's desert outskirts.
DNA from key evidence in a Tennessee woman's slaying does not match the man who spent more than two decades on death row for killing her, according to new FBI lab tests.
A skeptical panel of federal appeals judges questioned Wednesday whether former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has any legal right to challenge his proposed extradition to France to face money laundering charges.
The Arena Football League canceled its 2009 season Monday pending an agreement with its players union. The decision throws the future of the 22-year-old league into question just days after it said next season had not been suspended.
The owner of the Arena Football League's Los Angeles franchise says the league is poised to call off the 2009 season.
Omar Ahmed rarely emerges from his rundown Baghdad housing project. When he does, he leaves behind the Iraqi-issued ID card that marks him as a Palestinian and switches to the Iraqi dialect of Arabic at police checkpoints.
A prosecutor said Wednesday he would drop renewed murder charges against a former Tennessee death row inmate if DNA tests currently being performed raise doubts about his guilt.
A former death row inmate was freed from a Nashville prison Wednesday for the first time in nearly 23 years after an anonymous donor paid his bail.
The 24-year-old Guatemalan mother had already given up her baby once. Now, months later, the baby girl was back in her lap, smiling and playing with her mother's fingers.
Drew Snyder and William Ballentine had a commitment ceremony with all the trimmings four years ago, the closest they could get to a wedding at the time.
A judge has set bond at half a million dollars for a man who is being retried on a murder charge after spending 22 years on Tennessee's death row.
A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to retry or free a death row inmate who, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded, no juror would have found guilty based on evidence that emerged years after his trial.
In the eyes of Iraqi justice, Yahya Ali Humadi is a free man.
Guantanamo Bay, the only U.S. military base in a country that has no diplomatic relations with Washington, is a concentrated slice of Americana: The Star Spangled Banner blares from loudspeakers every morning as soldiers outside Starbucks stand at attention.
Strike or no strike, Carson Daly's back at work on "Last Call." But what does this mean? Is it the first crack in the dam that has kept late-night talk shows in repeat mode since Nov. 5 in support of the writers walkout?
Pope Benedict XVI has revised traditional Roman Catholic teaching on so-called "limbo," approving a church report released Friday that said there was reason to hope that babies who die without baptism can go to heaven.
Rumors flew, security guards pawed through lunch bags and people inside started crossing days off their calendars. That's what Karen Davis's office was like before it closed last year.
Vatican theologians are leaning toward revising centuries-old teaching that babies who die without baptism go to limbo instead of heaven, officials said Friday.
Kay Hymowitz: The child-man | Dallas Morning News | News for Dallas, Texas | Opinion: PointsIt's 1965, and you're a 26-year-old white guy. You have a factory job, or maybe you work for an insurance broker. Either way, you're married, probably have been for a few years now; you met your wife in high school, where she was in your sister's class.
Vatican Sez: No More Limbo!The Pope has reversed centuries of Roman Catholic teaching and abandoned the concept of limbo, held since mediaeval times to be the place to which the souls of babies who die without baptism are consigned.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has reversed centuries of traditional Roman Catholic teaching on limbo, approving a Vatican report released Friday, 4/20, that says there were "serious" grounds to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven. The Pope, appe …
Seriously. Is there anything these guys do or say that wouldn't fit perfectly — seamlessly — on the front page of The Onion? For comparison's sake, here's the lead to a "news" story from The Onion in 2002:
Catholic Church puts limbo in limboThe Pope speaks Ex-Cathedra so if you're Catholic you just wonder why and accept but I have written on this for years ( no, I am not the most famous person to write on it ) because I never quite understood it.
How can limbo just be abolished?The Pope may be about to abolish the notion of limbo, the halfway house between heaven and hell, inhabited by unbaptised infants.
Limbo to be to abolishedTHE Pope will cast aside centuries of Catholic belief this week by abolishing the concept of limbo, in a gesture to help win the souls of millions of babies in the developing world for Christ.
Pope tries to win hearts and minds by saving souls of unbaptised babiesTHE Pope will cast aside centuries of Catholic belief later this week by abolishing formally the concept of limbo, in a gesture calculated to help to win the souls of millions of babies in the developing world for Christ.
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