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After a week of deadly shootings across the country, including at least six-high profile rampages that killed 24 people, Americans are asking what made these mass murderers snap.

In a confidential memo, a long-time Republican operative who has served in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad for the past year says the State Department’s efforts in Iraq are so poorly managed they “would be considered willfully negligent if not criminal” if done in the private sector.

TOLEDO, OH — Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was suppose to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) — When Japanese police arrested three sumo wrestlers and their stable master on Thursday over allegations they beat a 17-year-old wrestler to death, the case sent shockwaves across a country that links its national identity to the sport.

Sunni armed groups known as Awakening Councils appear to have withdrawn their support for US forces and the Iraqi government in Diyala province.

Washington - The US rush to plant more corn for biofuel is already being blamed for soaring food prices. Now, two new US studies show that cultivated biofuel crops may actually increase instead of decrease the carbon emissions that ethanol and other biofuels were supposed to reduce.

DALLAS, N.C. — Investigators say a man has been charged with child abuse in Caldwell County for circumcising his two infant sons with a utility knife.

New Delhi will request Nepal to extradite a doctor wanted for allegedly masterminding an international illegal kidney transplant scheme, officials at the Indian embassy in Kathmandu have said.

Feb. 8, 2008 | Sen. John McCain is the only GOP candidate who believes in the science of global warming and who has proposed specific legislation that mandates a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially carbon dioxide. That said, a President McCain would not be the climate leader that America and the world requires.

It was the moment the mask fell - but still the mascara stayed put. An exhausted Hillary Clinton, ground down by the gruelling campaign pace and ceaseless media focus on her appearance, was thrown off guard by the sisterly warmth of the question: how do you do it?

HAVANA (Reuters) - A year and a half after he last appeared in public, the mystery of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s political future could be revealed later this month.

When you’ve got a valuable asset attached you your body, it definitely makes sense to get some insurance. Surgeons insure their hands; professional runners insure their feet. And Tom Jones, the aging “heartbreaker” who croons to little old ladies in Vegas, insures his chest hair.

Al-Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan has vowed revenge for the killing of one of its top commanders in neighbouring Pakistan last week, saying Abu Laith al-Libi was killed by the weapon of “despicable cowards”.

WICHITA, Kan. — Two Komodo dragons have hatched at the Sedgwick County Zoo, apparently without the fertilization of a male.

GENEVA (Reuters) - China’s devastating snowstorms and cold of the past months show that the world must prepare for new types of disasters caused by what was once called freak weather, United Nations experts said on Wednesday.