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ISLAMABAD – The U.S. resumed missile strikes in Pakistan’s northwest Tuesday — nearly a week after one reportedly killed the country’s Taliban chief — hitting a hideout believed to be frequented by his supporters and killing at least eight suspected militants, intelligence officials said. Two officials put the death toll …

Car dealers will have a bit more time to get reimbursed for their Cash for Clunkers deals after the government extended the deadline for filing applications for the $3 billion government incentives into Tuesday. All sales under the program ended Monday evening. But after already pushing back the deadline to …

CINCINNATI – Officials say two people were killed when a biplane crashed near a football scrimmage at an Ohio high school. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the single-engine plane took off Friday night from West Harrison Airport, and crashed within minutes. Sgt. Clint Arnold says it wasn’t immediately known …

AUGUSTA, Maine – Marine Capt. Nathaniel Picard was there for his wife during labor, even though he was thousands of miles away at Al-Asad Airfield in western Iraq. Picard watched, listened and offered words of encouragement thanks to a video satellite feed as his wife, Rebecca, gave birth Wednesday after …

For grownups who haven’t gotten around to growing up yet, Chevrolet is introducing a Transformers edition of its 2010 Camaro muscle car. Unveiled at the Comic-Con convention in San Diego, the car gets a number of cosmetic changes that make it look like the character ‘Bumblebee’ from the summer blockbuster, …

TOKYO – Japanese police raided the offices of a tour organizer Saturday on suspicion of negligence after eight senior citizens died of apparent hypothermia in cold, wet weather during a climbing tour of Japan’s northern mountains, officials said. The hikers, most of them in their 60s, were found dead Friday. …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN – Pakistani jets killed 12 suspected militants in South Waziristan on Thursday, a day after suspected U.S. missile strikes killed up to 45 insurgents in twin strikes in the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, intelligence officials said. The convergence of U.S. and Pakistani interests against …

BAGHDAD – A bomb planted on a well-wisher’s car at a wedding celebration in Iraq on Wednesday killed two people and injured 18 others outside the house of the groom, a police lieutenant, authorities said. At least eight people died in other violence around the country. The wedding attack happened …

Dr. Conrad Murray has emerged as the primary target in the death of Michael Jackson — but law enforcement sources tell us a massive investigation is taking form into what could be fraudulent prescription practices of more than a dozen doctors … and we’re told that number could easily double. …

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea is “seriously interested” in releasing two convicted American journalists but first wants the United States to acknowledge what Pyongyang sees as their “hostile acts,” a U.S.-based scholar who visited Pyongyang said Saturday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained in March near the North …