The North, which wants one-on-one talks with the US, said it's open to dialogue and had entered the "completion phase" of developing highly enriched uranium.
Wall Street bankers plan to buy life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash and package hundreds or thousands of them together into bonds.
AP - President Barack Obama's environmental adviser Van Jones, who became embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements, has resigned his White House job after what he calls a "vicious smear campaign against me."
AP - A man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said.
AP - With one of the largest wildfires in Southern California history nearly half contained, authorities were pressing forward with their investigation to try and determine who set the deadly blaze.
A whistle-blower who helped shed light on misconduct among contractors working as guards for the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan said what he witnessed "was just downright stupid." Terry Pearson said he resigned his management job with a different contractor after he was made to feel that he had done something wrong by complaining.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Saturday he was convinced that civilians, in addition to militants, were among those killed in a NATO airstrike that killed at least 90 people in northern Afghanistan.
Seven of eight people killed last week in a southeast Georgia mobile home were laid to rest Saturday. More than 200 mourners attended the funeral, including the father of one of the victims and grandfather of the man accused of the killings. "I've never seen so much love and support at a funeral," William Heinze told CNN affiliate WJXT.
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