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Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:57pm

(AP) — Venezuela's president has ordered the creation of a new workers' militia as part of an existing pro-government fighting force.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:55pm

(AP) — The lawyer for ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo says he is being extradited to the United States to face money-laundering and embezzlement charges.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:48pm

(AP) — Six paintings by the famous Wyeth family of artists have sold for just over $2 million at a New York City auction.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:48pm

(AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:44pm

(AP) — The woman who prosecutors allege had sex with Silvio Berlusconi while he was Italy's premier in exchange for money spent her second day on the witness stand Friday, denying her own sworn descriptions of racy escapades at his "bunga bunga" parties and long lists of expensive jewelry and watches received from the media mogul. Karima el Mahroug, a Moroccan known as Ruby, dismissed a series of sworn statements she made to investigators in the summer of 2010 as "all stupid things" that she now regrets saying. "I apologize to the prosecutors. They were all nonsense," she said.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:42pm

(AP) — Chile's environmental regulator blocked Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8.5 billion Pascua-Lama project on Friday and imposed its maximum fine on the world's largest gold miner, citing "very serious" violations of its environmental permit as well as a failure by the company to accurately describe what it had done wrong.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:41pm

(AP) — When the French Open starts Sunday, Roger Federer will be in his 54th consecutive Grand Slam tournament.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:39pm

(AP) — Some labor unions that enthusiastically backed President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are now frustrated and angry, fearful that it will jeopardize benefits for millions of their members.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:38pm

(AP) — A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals in the conservative region, a security official said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:34pm

(AP) — The stock market headed lower in midday trading Friday, putting it on track for its first weekly loss in a month.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:33pm

(AP) — A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter, but no casualties or damage were reported.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:31pm

(AP) — A truck hauling a too-tall load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:30pm

(AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:30pm

(AP) — The Syrian government has agreed to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country's civil war, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, the first sign that President Bashar Assad's regime would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:23pm

(AP) — Britain scrambled fighter jets Friday to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan, diverting it to an isolated runway at an airport on the outskirts of London and arresting two passengers on suspicion of endangering the aircraft.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:19pm

(AP) — With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest military on earth."

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:18pm

(AP) — The trucking company involved in a Washington state bridge collapse says it received a state-issued permit to carry its oversized load across the bridge.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:17pm

(AP) — The price of oil was knocked below $94 a barrel Friday by a combination of ample supplies and lukewarm demand.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:16pm

(AP) — FIFA's new anti-racism task force will ask soccer's governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found guilty of racist abuse, a person with knowledge of the situation said Friday.

Posted on May 24, 2013 at 12:12pm

(AP) — World stocks edged lower on Friday, a day after markets around the world dropped sharply on concerns global growth is slowing and the Federal Reserve could start scaling back its monetary stimulus.