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WASHINGTON — Suspended Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas was ordered Friday to spend 30 days in a halfway house for his conviction on gun charges stemming from a locker-room confrontation with a teammate.

Only hours after FIU running back Kendall Berry was stabbed to death on the school’s Miami campus, the university president said in a video message that officials “will not rest” until his attacker is found.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama travels to Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday to try to sway the public’s opinion of his health care overhaul.

CHASKA, Minn. — Prince looks like a pauper in a list of delinquent taxpayers in Minnesota.

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anything but jubilant, President Barack Obama awkwardly kept a promise Wednesday he made to assure passage of historic health care legislation, pledging his administration would not allow the use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance.

One of the main problems you face when you speak a language that your own ancestors didn’t create is that you’re subject to be manipulated by it.

I recently watched a television show about standards of beauty around the world. I sat in awe as little Chinese girls went ga-ga for White Barbie, and their mothers and sisters stood in a drive-thru line to have a surgeon slice away the fat from their eyelids to make them more Euro-chic.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – R&B star Akon has postponed a planned concert in Sri Lanka following angry protests over a music video he is in where scantily clad women dance in front of a Buddha statue.

The recent education reforms to No Child Left Behind proposed by the Obama Administration sadly perpetuate a flawed testing policy that will continue to leave our children behind.

PHILADELPHIA — Oprah Winfrey has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a headmistress she had accused of performing poorly at her South African girls school, where some students claimed they were abused, lawyers said Tuesday.