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National & World Investigators awaiting lab results in Whitney Houston's death (Photo Gallery)

By ANTHONY MCCARTNEY AP Entertainment Writer Published: Feb 13, 2012 at 8:36 AM PST Last Updated: Feb 13, 2012 at 9:57 AM PST

Whitney Houston's life of glorious song and unnerving self-destruction apparently ended in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Grammy weekend, but it could be weeks before investigators know exactly why she died.

National & World JFK intern recounts long-ago affair in new book

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press Published: Feb 13, 2012 at 8:28 AM PST Last Updated: Feb 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM PST

Mimi Alford was terrified in 1998 when the Monica Lewinsky scandal turned the word "intern" into a dirty joke, exposing an affair with a president. Her decades-old secret about her trysts with John F. Kennedy was still safe then.

National & World At least your money can live like a millionaire's

By CONNIE CASS Associated Press Published: Feb 13, 2012 at 8:23 AM PST

Movie super spies James Bond and Jason Bourne use them. So do real-life presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who says he pays his taxes, and untold numbers of Americans who don't. Swiss banks and their secretive counterparts around the globe may sound like the exclusive province of the wealthy, the mysterious or the shady, but anybody can legally open an offshore account.

National & World Military planes fly food into snowbound European towns

By ALINA WOLFE MURRAY Associated Press Published: Feb 13, 2012 at 8:20 AM PST

Military planes flew in tons of emergency food Monday to towns and villages in eastern Romania where thousands have been stranded by blizzards. Some people had to cut tunnels through 15 feet of snow to get out of their homes.

National & World Budget battle likely to extend to November elections

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer Published: Feb 13, 2012 at 8:11 AM PST Last Updated: Feb 13, 2012 at 10:10 AM PST

President Barack Obama on Monday sent Congress a new budget that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade while at the same time showering billions of dollars of increased spending on areas aimed at giving the economy a quick boost.

National & World Induced labor allows dying man to see daughter

By JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press Published: Feb 12, 2012 at 6:25 PM PST

Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child.

National & World Greece passes new austerity deal amid rioting (Photo Gallery)

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS, Associated Press Published: Feb 12, 2012 at 6:55 PM PST

Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after riots in Athens and other cities left stores looted and burned and more than 120 people hurt.

National & World Mystery disease kills thousands in Central America

By FILADELFO ALEMAN and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press Published: Feb 12, 2012 at 4:35 PM PST

A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else.

National & World Fuel removal under way on Italy cruise ship

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Published: Feb 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM PST Last Updated: Feb 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM PST

Underwater pumping operations began Sunday to remove some of the 500,000 gallons of fuel aboard the Costa Concordia, officials said, nearly a month after the cruise ship ran aground off Tuscany.

National & World R.I. player wins $336 million Powerball jackpot

By Associated Press Published: Feb 12, 2012 at 8:55 AM PST

Lottery officials say someone who played the Powerball in Rhode Island has won the $336.4 million jackpot.

National & World 9 die in Kosovo avalanche; child survives

By FLORENT BAJRAMI, Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 11:24 AM PST Last Updated: Feb 12, 2012 at 8:45 AM PST

Rescuers have pulled a 5-year-old girl alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both of her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.

National & World Hacker claims porn site users compromised

By RAPHAEL SATTER,Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 2:59 PM PST

A hacker claims to have compromised the personal information of more than 350,000 users after breaking into a disused website operated by pornography provider Brazzers.

National & World Dozens of pets rescued from Ohio fire find homes

By Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 2:42 PM PST

Several dozen animals have found temporary shelter after Ohio firefighters rescued at least 60 pets from a house fire in a Cincinnati suburb.

National & World Norwegians seek A-ha! moment in North Korean music

By BJOERN H. AMLAND Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM PST

An arts festival in northern Norway is offering a rare glimpse into North Korean culture this weekend, including performances by musicians whose accordion version of A-ha's megahit "Take on Me" has become an online sensation.

National & World Staff at The Sun tabloid arrested in bribe inquiry

By DAVID STRINGER Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 9:26 AM PST

Britain's biggest-selling tabloid newspaper was fighting to contain the damage after five of its employees were arrested Saturday in an inquiry into the alleged payment of bribes to police and other officials, detectives and the newspaper's parent company said.

National & World Rio calm in 2nd day of police strike

By Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 10:31 AM PST

Few police officers have adhered to a strike just days before this city's world-famous Carnival kicks off, official said Saturday.

Politics Social issues rule busy day in presidential race

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Published: Feb 11, 2012 at 12:51 AM PST

Social issues dominated the 2012 presidential race Friday, as President Barack Obama tried to calm a storm over religion and birth control and the Republicans vying to replace him jockeyed to outdo each other in proving their conservative fervor.

National & World Sandusky says he feels people have turned on him

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Published: Feb 10, 2012 at 5:03 PM PST

Jerry Sandusky walked out of a courthouse Friday where a judge was considering whether to let him see his relatives and friends while he awaits trial on child sex-abuse charges and told reporters Friday he felt people have turned on him.

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