By MATTHEW LEE and ROBERT BURNS 2010-09-02T18:59:39Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Thursday to keep talking and produce a framework for a permanent peace deal, modest achievements reached amid deep skepticism about success at their first such session in two years....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that while the fight against corruption must be led by Afghans, the U.S. is working on new ways to prevent millions of American dollars flowing into the nation from underwriting bribery and graft....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Taliban is confronting a serious "cash flow" problem after losing some half of its annual drug trade money to a farming blight and government eradication efforts, a Marine two-star general said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal prisons are failing to notify crime victims and witnesses when inmates are allowed to travel by themselves for medical treatment, the Justice Department inspector general said Thursday....
McGREGOR, Texas (AP) -- Rep. Chet Edwards, an imperiled Democrat deep in the heart of Republican territory, finds exiting American Legion Post No. 273 slow going. Supporters and well-wishers keep stopping him....
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- It's been three years since Scott Eckersley was fired after asserting that his then-boss, former Gov. Matt Blunt, and others in Blunt's administration should not be deleting certain e-mails because they belonged to the public record....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government safety officials have not found a connection between a new kind of Pampers diapers and the severe skin reactions reported by some parents' groups....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kia Motors is recalling about 35,000 Soul and Sorento vehicles to fix wiring in the interior lighting panels that could lead to fires....
