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A woman who says she is the mother of an American woman held and later released in Ireland over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist says she does not know where her daughter and grandson may be.

The Red River is rising — and so is the anxiety level for residents in North Dakota and Minnesota who dealt with record flooding last year.

A high school soccer player has been stabbed to death at a Massachusetts restaurant where more than 200 teens had gathered for a birthday party.

Four people on two motorcycles have been killed in western Florida after a pickup truck struck both bikes.

Authorities say five people were wounded in a shooting at an apartment complex in Southern California.

The U.S. is taking a go-slow approach on one of the touchiest and least discussed national security issues: whether to remove the last remaining Cold War-era U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.

The White House is backing down from trying to get senators to remove some special deals from the health care bill.

The State Department is authorizing U.S. government employees at six U.S. consulates in northern Mexico to send their family members out of the area because of concerns about rising drug-related violence.

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive demanding that airlines check a mechanism that controls tail flaps on about 600 Boeing 737s.

More than a half-million customers have lost electricity in the Northeast and 500 passengers on a commuter train have been stranded for hours thanks to a strong storm.