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Parents say Jamie-Paulin-Ramirez arrested in alleged plot to kill cartoonist.

From being a devoted dad & husband to mastering his craft, why Jeff Bridges rocks.

IRS sends taxpayers millions of letters about tax return errors.

Why did Lars Vilks, a mild-mannered Swede who calls himself "the artist," booby-trap his art with electrified barbed wire, keep an ax by his bedside, and build a panic room upstairs? For one, Mr. Vilks's 2007 cartoon of the prophet Mohammed as a stray dog continues to bring death threats and even a bounty on his head from an Al Qaeda-related group in Iraq. But after US authorities on Tuesday arrested Colleen LaRose, a Philadelphia woman known on the Internet as Jihad Jane, for allegedly planning to travel to rural Sweden and assassinate Vilks, civil libertarians such as George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley are pointing to another potential incentive for European artists to protect themselves: growing deference shown to Islam by European governments and journalists worried about stoking fanatical flames.

Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has reached across the aisle in his first five weeks on the job. But his interest in dissolving gridlock doesn't extend to supporting the healthcare bill.

Chelsea King, 17, vanished while jogging, found murdered after public search.

Obama's bid to remove senators' projects from health care bill runs into political reality

Is blogging going out of style? In December 2007, 28 percent of all 18-to-29-year-olds with an Internet connection kept some sort of blog. By the same time last year, that number hovered around 15 percent. Meanwhile, the number of teens who say they blog regularly continues to shrink, as the Web's youngest users ditch the blogosphere for the frantic pace of the social-media world.

President talks up blueprint for education reform.

Not only is Manny Pacaquiao the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world; he's also a platinum recording artist, actor and politician.

Iraq vote results show PM leading in key Baghdad tally, boosting reelection chances

State authorities say name of Corey Haim found on fraudulent prescription linked to drug ring

Police say suicide bomber at security checkpoint kills 13 in northwest Pakistan

US avoids anti-abortion schism at meeting on women's equality _ unlike 2005

Secretary of State Clinton stings Israeli PM with blunt criticism over housing announcement

Pelosi says it won't be long before health care bill passes; Dems add student loans to package

Senators question lobbying, nearly $1 million in compensation for CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs

Police say death toll in suicide attacks in Pakistan's Lahore city hits 43