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WASHINGTON – U.S. retail gasoline prices (search) increased for the first time in 10 weeks, while truckers saw their diesel fuel costs drop for a second week, the Energy Department said on Monday. The national pump price for regular unleaded gasoline rose 1.5 cents over the last week to $1.793 …

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. – More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the turbulent civil rights era — the “Freedom Summer” slayings of three young civil rights workers — a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested Thursday on murder charges in the case. Sheriff Larry Myers told …

SIKKAL, India – After their mother was washed away by the tsunami (search) that ravaged southern Asia, their father told 10-year-old Devinya and her two brothers to fend for themselves. “My father told me to go,” was all Devinya could say, sitting sadly at a new orphanage that opened Monday …

AMMAN, Jordan – Prosecutors leveled charges against two suspected Jordanian terrorists after police foiled a plan to kill four American archeologists, security officials said Wednesday. Jamil Mohammed Kutkut, 27, and Ibrahim Mohammed Zein al-Abedeen, better known by Jihad al-Qashah, 36, were charged with plotting to commit terrorist acts, illegal possession …

WASHINGTON – A group that helps female Democratic candidates who support abortion rights is asking a federal judge to block new campaign finance rules that it argues will cripple its ability to participate in state and local elections. EMILY’s List (search) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in U.S. District Court …

PITTSBURGH – A man was charged Thursday with soliciting donations for tsunami relief by sending 800,000 phony e-mails purporting to be from a nationally known aid organization, federal prosecutors said. Matthew Schmieder (search), 24, was arrested at his home Thursday, just days after several states and consumer watchdog agencies warned …

Watch “On the Record” weeknights at 10 p.m. ET She’s the Internet’s most downloaded woman. Now this cyberspace centerfold bares a whole new side as she publicly struggles with a very private issue. What is it? Cindy Margolis (search) speaks out to Greta on tonight’s edition of “On the Record.” …

Most Americans see health care and insurance costs (search) as a more pressing problem than malpractice lawsuits, a survey says, although the Bush administration often cites litigation as a reason for high medical bills. The Kaiser Family Foundation (search), a nonprofit organization that studies health care issues, and the Harvard …

When it comes to parenting, teenage mothers fuss more over their baby’s fashion and are less likely to ooh and ah with their infants than women who give birth later in life. Preliminary findings published in the January issue of Hormones and Behavior indicate that adult mothers are more affectionate …

COSTA MESA, Calif. – Some parents and parishioners have accused the Roman Catholic diocese in Orange County of violating church doctrine by allowing a gay couple to enroll their children in a church school. The group demanded that St. John the Baptist School (search) in Costa Mesa accept only families …