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A man fatally shot his two teenage sons and set their suburban home on fire Tuesday before turning the gun on himself, police said, marking the third murder-suicide involving children in the San Diego area within the past month.

Lady Liberty makes a nice backdrop for a presidential announcement. But can a little-known candidate capture the GOP nomination without introducing himself to the nation in the Iowa caucuses?

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A recently released report on pesticide residues found that about 20 percent of organic lettuce tested positive for pesticides. How could that be? We talked with the University of Minnesota's Jeff Gillman about the state of organic farming.

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Seven decades after public health officials thought they'd eradicated dengue fever, the disease has once again become a scourge in Florida. More than 90 cases have been reported there since 2009. The stakes are high: The same mosquito that carries dengue is also a vector for yellow fever.

Known as "Dr. Death," Kevorkian was 83. He had claimed to have assisted in at least 130 suicides. Convicted of second-degree murder in the late '90s, he spent eight years in prison.

Egypt ended a four-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, bringing badly needed relief to the Palestinian territory's 1.5 million people. Under the new system, there are few restrictions on who comes and goes, but Palestinian men between the ages of 18 and 40 must get visas before being allowed to enter Egypt.

One line from President Obama's recent speech stirred up anger in Congress and Israel: "Borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his country will not return to those "indefensible borders."

A San Diego researcher says La Niña may be partially to blame for the deadly tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest. More than 450 people have died in recent weeks from some of the largest and most powerful twisters on record.