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The defense team for John Edwards rested its case Wednesday without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify at his corruption trial.

Rose Mary Sabo Brown spent just 30 days with her new husband, Army Spec. Leslie Sabo Jr., before he shipped out to fight in Vietnam. But from that month together in 1969 grew a lifetime of love.

So, let's say you're doing a Google search for "Kings." Did you mean the L.A. hockey team or the Sacramento basketball team? Maybe the TV show? Or maybe you actually wanted to know something about monarchs.

The body of a mobster buried among cardinals and bishops on a Vatican property has been exhumed in an investigation into a teenage girl's disappearance.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said Wednesday that he was "saddened" by the guilty verdict for abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone and said his role in the conflict was much different from how it had been portrayed.

Syrians seeking cover at a camp for displaced residents came under attack Wednesday by government forces, an opposition group said, unable to escape the violence that has tormented the country for 14 months.

The report also said George Zimmerman had black eyes and cuts on his head a day after fatally shooting unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. An autopsy showed Martin's knuckles were injured, a CNN affiliate reports.

Mladic seemed to taunt victims in court, pretending to slice his throat, staring and growling. The ex-Bosnian Serb general is on trial for war crimes stemming from Yugoslavia's civil war.

Leith Anderson and Lynne Hybels says a new House version of the Violence Against Women Act erodes protections from abuse for immigrant women.

The withdrawal of one of two massage therapists from a sex battery lawsuit against John Travolta "completely vindicated" the actor, Travolta's lawyer said Tuesday.

The doctors for Aimee Copeland are promising a "roller coaster ride of highs and lows" in the coming weeks and months as she struggles against a rare "flesh-eating" bacteria, her father said.

The United States says it has taken all the necessary steps on its side to admit Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese human rights activist who ignited a diplomatic frenzy when he escaped house arrest last month.

The City of Fullerton, California, has reached a $1 million settlement with the mother of a mentally ill homeless man who died last year after a beating he received at the hands of police officers.

Kodak -- the company known for decades for its cameras and film -- this week confirmed it used weapons-grade uranium in an underground lab in upstate New York for upwards of 30 years.

Autopsy results on Mitchell Guist, a star of the reality TV show "Swamp People," should be ready Wednesday, a local sheriff in Louisiana said.

President Obama hosts an extravaganza of summits, G8 and NATO, with thorny issues of Afghanistan and Syria on the tables. NATO might even invite Pakistan.

Groom wanted after bride found dead in bathtub Police are looking for the husband of a bride who was found stabbed to death in her bathtub. She was still in the sequined cocktail dress she wore to her reception.

The West Georgia University graduate student infected two weeks ago with a rare "flesh-eating" bacteria was making progress, albeit slowly, her father said Tuesday.

Day 1 for France's socialist president: take the reins from Nicolas Sarkozy, switch planes due to a lightning strike and meet with the German leader whose policies he bashed.

North Carolina is so important to the re-election chances of Barack Obama that he picked Charlotte as the host city for the Democratic nominating convention.