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Central Florida residents told to flee fast-moving brush fire
TAVARES, Fla. - Authorities have told residents of about 140 homes in central Florida to evacuate ahead of a fast-moving brush fire. Officials say the homes themselves are not threatened by the fir...
Groups try to stop Ringling Bros. circus from chaining elephants
NEW YORK - A coalition of animal welfare groups says it has evidence that Ringling Bros. circus elephants are sometimes chained for days at a time. The groups are asking a U.S. judge to halt the pr...
Jimmy Carter says former chief of staff Hamilton Jordan was master strategist
ATLANTA - Former president Jimmy Carter praised his White House chief of staff Wednesday as a master political strategist who helped make a "peanut farmer from the South" president of the United State...
Senator Edward Kennedy released from hospital, heads to Cape Cod
BOSTON - Senator Edward M. Kennedy gave a thumbs up to well-wishers and kisses to relatives as he walked out of the hospital Wednesday, a day after learning he has a cancerous brain tumour. A squar...
Human Rights Group critices U.S. military for child detentions
GENEVA - A rights group is criticizing the U.S. military for holding hundreds of youths in Iraq, saying American forces aren't living up to international standards. The complaint by the New York-ba...
Brothers' killing of 2-year-old girl has Argentines rethinking juvenile laws
BUENOS AIRES - Two brothers, age seven and nine, told psychiatrists they slowly, coldly tortured a two-year-old girl to death, a revelation that has Argentines debating whether to do away with a law p...
Argentine man sentenced for keeping daughter as sexual prisoner
BUENOS AIRES - A 73-year-old Argentine man who fathered two children through a young daughter he kept as his sexual prisoner now faces 16 years in prison himself. Prosecuting Attorney Sergio Antin ...
Child protection officials return to polygamous sect's ranch in Texas
ELDORADO, Texas - Child Protective Services workers have returned to the West Texas ranch of a polygamist sect after learning that there may be more children living there. An agency spokeswoman say...
Sri Lanka loses bid for United Nations human rights panel seat
UNITED NATIONS - Sri Lanka, which has been strongly criticized for its human rights record, has lost its bid for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council. Four other countries with poor records - Paki...
Deputy in Missouri shoots big, black cat - not the pet variety
NEOSHO, Mo. - A deputy shot and killed a 23-kilogram feline - a jaguar or leopard that may have been dumped by its owner - after a woman reported the animal pawing at her door. The origin of the we...
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