
Nov 6 - By Michelle Chapman, AP Business Writer
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Nov 4 - By Associated Press
The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.
Nov 3 - By Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer
Newly released White House tapes from the Vietnam War era portray President John F. Kennedy wrestling over the fate of South Vietnam's strongman in a situation that appears to mirror President Barack Obama's quandary today in dealing with Afghanistan's shaky government.

Nov 3 - By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Writer
U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband.

Nov 3 - By AllisonLinn
The recession has dramatically changed many Americans’ shopaholic habits, at least temporarily and perhaps forever.
Nov 2 - By Mike Celizic, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
You couldn’t find a more contented dog than the mutt sprawled on the couch in the TODAY studio, his head resting on his master’s thigh, a loving hand petting around his abbreviated ears.

Nov 2 - By Diane Mapes, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Mortifying childhood memories come easily to Candice Broom, a 29-year-old elementary school teacher from Birmingham, Ala.
Oct 28 - By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Writer
A pickup truck in Mexico pulls up to the 5-foot vehicle barriers that make up part of the multibillion-dollar border fence. A retractable ramp is extended from the truck, forming a bridge up and over the barriers.
Oct 28 - By Associated Press
A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.
Oct 27 - By Associated Press
Police arrested a man Tuesday who they say headed the operations of the "La Familia" drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan.
Oct 26 - By Associated Press
An international tribunal has upheld the sentences for three rebel leaders convicted of crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.

Oct 25 - By Alicia A. Caldwell, Associated Press Writer
One immigration agent was accused of running an Internet pornography business and enjoying an improper relationship with an informant. Another let an informant smuggle in a group of illegal immigrants. And in a third case, an agent was investigated for soliciting sex from a witness in a marriage fraud case.
Oct 23 - By Ivan Moreno, Associated Press Writer
A Mexican drug kingpin who led a fearsome cartel for more than a decade pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug and racketeering charges.

Oct 23 - By Niko Price, Associated Press Writer
A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mexican official told The Associated Press.

Oct 22 - By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Writer
In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

Oct 22 - By Devlin Barrett
Attorney General Eric Holder calls it the largest single strike at a Mexican drug cartel operating in the U.S. — the arrest of more than 300 people in a series of drug raids across the country.

Oct 22 - By ERANGA JAYAWARDENA, STR
More than 4,000 ethnic Tamils displaced by civil war left government-run camps Thursday, the latest to be released amid international criticism that Sri Lanka is moving too slowly to let thousands of others go.
Oct 22 - By Associated Press
The host of a meeting of NATO defense ministers is harshly criticizing the U.S. over its 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Oct 21 - By Associated Press
Three once-powerful members of Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in San Diego.

Oct 21 - By Alonso Duralde, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com
Blending a sardonic sense of humor with a healthy dose of things that go bump in the night, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” is a mostly entertaining horror-comedy that introduces us to a world which, with any luck, we’ll get to know better over the course of a few more movies.

Oct 21 - By Eteri Kakabadze, Associated Press Writer
Tens of thousands of cheering people filled the streets in front of Georgia's parliament, but they came to make a movie, not stage one of the capital's frequent mass demonstrations.

Oct 20 - By Michael Barajas, Associated Press Writer
The Israeli and U.S. militaries were set to begin a major joint air defense exercise Wednesday, highlighting military ties between the two allies at a time of heightened tensions over Iran's nuclear program.

Oct 20 - By Mike Corder, Associated Press Writer
U.N. prosecutors opened their genocide case against Radovan Karadzic on Tuesday — despite his continued boycott of the case — calling him the "undisputed leader" of Serbs responsible for atrocities throughout Bosnia's brutal four-year war.
Oct 19 - By Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Retail Writer
Target Corp. has thrown itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers.

Oct 19 - By Arthur Max, Associated Press Writer
Prosecutors on Monday accused a Sudanese rebel leader of planning an attack that killed 12 African peacekeepers, in the first Darfur case to reach an international tribunal.