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Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the U.S. East Coast’s largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial markets and mass transit, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening high winds, rain and a wall of water up to 11 feet (3.35 metres) tall. It could endanger up to 50 million people for days.

Is Next Medal of Honor Going to a Marine?

Veteran San Diego police Detective Donna Williams, 52, and her 18-year-old daughter Briana are believed to have been stabbed to death at their Rancho Peñasquitos home by the detective's son, police said.

New York City's annual Gay Pride Parade became a rolling victory party Sunday, two days after the state became the second largest in the country to legalize same-sex marriage.

A Frankfurt stock trader who lost his job in the 2008 recession is working again in the city's financial district — running a successful business selling sausages to his former colleagues. Thomas Brausse says getting the pink slip enabled him to try out an idea he'd been thinking about for years.

The Nachar family had a reputation for opposing the Assads' rule even before last year's uprising. They're even more active now. Family members have protested outside the United Nations, raised money to supply the rebels and helped establish an opposition political movement.

The remarks of President Obama, as released by The White House and prepared for delivery:

Airs Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. The award-winning British mystery series stars Michael Kitchen as DCI Christopher Foyle, a man of few words and rock-solid convictions. Set in a quiet English coastal town during WWII and in London during the Cold War's early days, rich in moral complexity and period details, the upright, laconic detective is tasked with investigating cases on the home front of his coastal community.

Capping more than a week of public mourning, North Korea staged a dramatic state funeral for its late leader Kim Jong Il. Leading the ceremonies was Kim's third son and apparent successor Kim Jong Un.

Nakita Garcia, a 24-year-old San Diegan, is battling breast cancer, a disease that's almost unheard of in women her age.