The Department of Education convened its first summit on school bullying Wednesday. It comes as state lawmakers nationwide step up their efforts to pass anti-bullying laws.
Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin had been indicted by a US federal grand jury in November on charges that he engaged in an illicit international network to facilitate credit card fraud.
US investigators may be gaining ground in the fight against international cyber crime. Recent extradition of an alleged hacker from Estonia is latest victory in prosecuting such cases.
Senator Michael Bennet won a Democratic primary battle with backing from President Obama, while an insurgent beat the party favorite in the Republican Senate primary.
They call it a training mission, but for the soldiers of the First Battalion, 87th Infantry, their work in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan is much more than that.
AP - Jurors deliberating for an 11th day in the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich suggested Wednesday that they may be deadlocked on some counts.
AP - President Barack Obama is satisfied that the United States can safely end its combat role in Iraq at the end of this month and meet the deadline for removing all U.S. troops from the country by the end of 2011, White House officials said Wednesday.
AP - White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he might have said things differently when he lashed out at liberals he called the "professional left" and suggested some of them should be drug tested.
Rescuers and residents walk on a road covered by rocks and mud near a collapsed building after a mudslide triggered by heavy rains in Zhouqu county, in northwest China's Gansu province, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers searched Monday for an estimated 1,300 people left missing after rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China, just one of a series of flood disasters across Asia that have plunged millions into misery.
The plane carrying ex-Sen. Ted Stevens hit a mountain and skidded several feet, killing ex-Sen. Ted Stevens and four others died. Brutal terrain and bad weather kept the four survivors waiting 12 hours for rescue help, officials and witnesses said.
Two fugitives who were believed to have been heading for the northwestern U.S. or Canada may have been spotted in Arkansas, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
The body of a retired restaurateur who's been missing for two years has been found in a freezer in the French city of Lyon, police there told CNN Wednesday.
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