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Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:28pm

It's a just quick kiss, but it's a long step forward for Archie Comics' only openly gay character Kevin Keller.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:23pm

Private equity firm Blackstone Group LP, along with Pactera's CEO and other managers, have offered to take Pactera private in a deal that values the Chinese technology consulting and outsourcing firm at $680.4 million.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:20pm

(AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry headed back to the Middle East on Monday to press his case for peace talks between Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's regime amid increasing signs the new U.S. strategy to halt the war is being undermined by Russia.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:20pm

(AP) — The college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:20pm

(AP) — Russia's counterterrorism agency said Monday that its special forces killed two militants and detained a third believed to have been planning a terrorist act in Moscow.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:18pm

(AP) — A national atheist group says it will place its literature in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles in them.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:15pm

(AP) — The Justice Department's inspector general says the U.S. Attorney in Arizona violated department policy by providing Fox News with information apparently aimed at undercutting the credibility of a federal agent who helped reveal the botched arms-trafficking probe called Operation Fast and Furious.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:07pm

(AP) — The Czech Republic's controversy-courting new president is under fire for refusing to grant a university professorship to one of his critics and hinting that it is because the man is a gay rights activist.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:07pm

(AP) — The owner of a Los Angeles jewelry store pleaded guilty Monday for his role in an insider-trading case involving a former senior partner at accounting firm KPMG.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:07pm

(AP) — Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:05pm

(AP) — In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ballots.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 1:03pm

(AP) — The price of silver was the standout mover in financial markets Monday as it took a hammering for the second trading session in a row, even as stocks remained relatively solid amid hopes over the U.S. economy.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:59pm

(AP) — An outspoken Tunisian feminist who scandalized the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocative acts" at a religious center where police prevented hardline Islamists from holding their annual conference, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:56pm

(AP) — The high school alma mater of the Hofstra University student accidentally killed by a police officer is discussing the shooting with its graduating seniors.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:50pm

(AP) — The Arab Spring uprisings that toppled four Arab leaders have forced Mideast governments to allow more freedom of expression and of the press, Jordan's prime minister said Monday, but critics charged that Jordan itself is not doing enough.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:50pm

(AP) — The State Department has appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:46pm

(AP) — Senators working on a bipartisan immigration bill have agreed to require fingerprinting when foreigners leave the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:44pm

(AP) — Two bombs exploded outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others, officials said.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:44pm

(AP) — Small companies took the limelight Monday as the stock market extended a rally.

Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:43pm

(AP) — Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use of mortars and rocket launchers in the first fighting between the groups since the M23 rebels overtook and later retreated from the provincial capital of Goma last year.