US now says Pakistani support for Taliban ‘in the past’

WASHINGTON - With the storm over WikiLeaks revelations refusing to die down, US officials are at pains to suggest that while some people in Pakistan’s intelligence community had supported the Taliban, that situation is changing.

Four CRPF troopers killed in Assam blast

GUWAHATI - At least four paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion Friday in Holmari in Assam’s Goalpara district.

Defense attorney says B-2 engineer gave China only unclassified information

Attorney: Engineer gave China unclassified info

Al Qaeda forms army of 12,000 fighters in Yemen

SANA’A - The Yemen-based wing of militant outfit Al Qaeda has threatened to “cleanse the land” with a new army of 12,000 fighters.

US pushes for India-Pakistan dialogue despite ISI-Taliban links

WASHINGTON - The United States says it encourages a dialogue between India and Pakistan despite “revelations” of known links between Pakistani spy agency ISI and the Taliban as it is in the interest of all three nations.

US Consulate in Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez temporarily closes for security review

US Consulate in Ciudad Juarez closes for security

NY trustee files 3 lawsuits to recover more than $30 million in Madoff family investments

NY suit seeks $30 million in Madoff family money

Top drug lord killed in gunbattle with soldiers in major blow to Mexico’s most powerful cartel

Top Mexican drug lord killed in clash with army

Overflow crowd attends funeral service for slain Southern California teenager

Overflow crowd attends funeral of slain Calif girl

Early and often: Ill. residents to vote twice to fill President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat

Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama

One of top leaders of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel killed in clash with soldiers

Top Mexican drug lord killed in military raid

Texas police: 69-year-old gunman kills stepfather, 2 others, spares kids before shooting self

Police: Gunman kills stepfather, 2 others in Texas

Arizona immigration flap poses opportunities, pitfalls, for Democrats and Republicans

US President Barack Obama

Reports: Mexican drug lord killed or captured in raid

Reports: Mexican drug lord targeted in raid

Federal judge in Utah hears change of venue arguments in Elizabeth Smart kidnapping case

Change of venue arguments heard in Smart case

Cleared of charges, Paterson says he regrets dropping out of NY governor’s race

NY’s Paterson: I regret leaving governor’s race

Prosecutor: Former B-2 bomber engineer sold secrets to make $15k mortgage payments on HI home

Fed atty: Military secrets sold to pay for HI home

Woman recounts grizzly’s vicious bite as Montana officials test bear suspected of fatal attack

Woman recounts bear attack as caught grizzly ID’d

Ariz. appeals judge’s last-minute decision to block new immigration law, protesters arrested

Ariz. files appeal as sheriff launches new sweep

Federal judge getting threats after her ruling on Arizona’s controversial immigration law

Fed judge gets threats after AZ immigration ruling

SEC accuses Dallas investors Sam and Charles Wyly, attorney, stockbroker of insider trading

SEC accuses Dallas investors of insider trading

Obama signs bill that gives American Indian tribes more authority to combat reservation crime

The Dalai Lama

Report: Drug gunmen kidnap journalists to demand airing of videos

Mexican drug gunmen demand media run clips

Fugitive couple wanted in death of American woman deported back to Panama

Pair wanted in US woman’s death deported to Panama

Obama says Tribal Law and Order Act to help all Americans feel safer in their communities

The White House

Memphis police: Ex-NBA player Wright shot to death, investigating case as homicide

Police: Ex-NBA player Wright shot to death

Justice Department suing Oracle alleging fraud over software contracts

US suing Oracle alleging software contracts fraud

Memphis authorities: Ex-NBA player Lorenzen Wright shot to death; body found in woods

Police: Ex-NBA player Lorenzen Wright fatally shot

Pentagon: Leak inquiry may cover those who received, posted secret info

Pentagon: Leak investigaton may go beyond military

Elderly woman left in recliner for more than a month with deep bedsores dies on 81st birthday

Mass. woman left in recliner dies on 81st birthday

Former Jefferson County, Ala. commissioner sentenced to 10 years for conspiracy, bribery

Jefferson County, Ala. ex-commissioner sentenced

Pitino tells jury he didn’t report alleged extortion to keep sexual tryst secret from family

Pitino tells jury he hoped to keep tryst secret

2 teens killed, 2 others injured in shootings over 13-hour span in California city

4 teens shot in Calif. city in 13-hour span

Bolivia president’s inaugural priest nabbed in liquid cocaine bust

Bolivia coke bust nabs pres’ inaugural priest

Jury rejects life sentence, sentences south Texas man to death for beheading 3 kids in 2003

Texas man gets death penalty for beheading 3 kids

Democrats catch break with Blagojevich trial’s early end, no big-name witnesses

President Barack Obama

Excessive force suspension overturned for Texas cop who slammed suspect onto squad car’s hood

Excessive force suspension reversed for Texas cop

Dozens arrested as Arizona appeals judge’s last-minute blocking of new immigration law

AZ appeals order blocking parts of immigration law

Dozens arrested as Arizona prepares to appeal judge’s last-minute blocking of immigration law

Dozens arrested in protests of AZ immigration law

Inexperience or truth-teller? Cameron starts new chapter in less-than-polite British diplomacy

Asif Ali Zardari

Dozens arrested as Arizona prepares to appeal judge’s blocking of immigration law

Dozens arrested in protests of immigration law

2 New Orleans police officers charged in beating death as part of Justice Department probe

2 New Orleans officers charged in beating death

Agents seize $1.7B worth of marijuana in sweep of California’s Sierra Nevada; 97 arrests

$1.7B worth of pot seized in Central Calif sweep

Dozens arrested as Arizona prepares to appealjudge’s blocking of immigration law

Dozens arrested as protests of immigration law

Colorado pot shops face closure as tough state rules take effect

Colo. pot shops face closure under tough new rules

Citigroup paying $75M to settle charges of misleading investors over high-risk mortgages

Citigroup paying $75M to settle fraud charges

Gov’t investigators use fake information to obtain US passports for second time in 2 years

US Passports still vulnerable to fraud

WASHINGTON — Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver’s licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work.

Mont. officials trap grizzly, 2 of her 3 cubs, after campground mauling that killed Mich. man

Grizzly caught after MT mauling that killed MI man

Protests against Arizona immigration law go on despite decision blocking key parts

Protests go on despite ruling on immigration law

Texas jury deliberates whether to give death sentence to man convicted of beheading 3 children

Texas jury mulls death sentence for child-killer