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But the U.S.A.'s standing has plunged in Mexico and remains dismal in many Muslim nations despite the president's outreach.

Hampton Sides' new book follows Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin, James Earl Ray, as he escapes from prison and plots King's murder to the moment he is finally apprehended by Scotland Yard.

When three volcanoes in Alaska erupted in 2008 — one of them creating an ash cloud that spanned North America — flight disruptions were quite minor. That is a stark contrast to recent events in Europe, owing to both geography and air regulations.

Cindy Vong is taking the state to court after the cosmetology board pulled the plug on her fish-pedicure business. The board says the practice is unsanitary, but Vong's attorney disputes the claim the spa fish put anyone at risk.

Josh Mendoza turned 18 this year and suddenly found himself out of his foster home and on his own. He's one of 30,000 foster kids to age out of the system this year. A new report finds that these teens are more likely than their peers to end up in jail, homeless or pregnant.

One prominent Republican drew the ire of his fellow party members this week by calling the passage of the health care bill the GOP's Waterloo. But Republicans say the issue has lost none of its power to motivate the opposition in the midterm elections and beyond.

The outcry from the late January deaths of 15 young people in Juarez has led President Felipe Calderon to pledge to pump millions of dollars into civic programs in what's become one of the deadliest cities in the world.

"Self (the remix)" is a spoken-word, hip-hop play that mixes together stories, movement and music to tell the tale of an American child of Iranian and Guatemalan immigrants growing up in California in the 1970s and 80s in the shadow of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Acclaimed playwright and performer Robert Farid Karimi, accompanied with a soundscape created by Filipino DJ D Double, tells a "remixed" autobiographical tale of a boy struggling to learn about manhood, nationhood, and neighborhood with the voices and music of his environment helping him along.

An independent New York-based theater company visited Camp Pendleton Marine Base recently. Their performance was part of a $3.7 million contract with the Department of Defense to take Greek drama to military bases around the country.

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