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Officials found 106 firearms and more than 8,000 rounds of ammunition inside a prison after a riot last month, the country’s top prison authority said Thursday.

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More than half the Senate on Wednesday urged quick approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, increasing pressure on President Obama to move ahead with the project.

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The Navy said Wednesday that it would conduct random blood-alcohol tests on sailors in the United States starting next month.

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Nehemiah Griego, 15, faces charges in the deaths of his parents, a younger brother and two younger sisters.

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The Swiss watchmaker will pay $750 million for the luxury watch and jewelry brand and assume up to $250 million in debt, the companies said.

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Saudi Arabia on Friday began expelling more than a thousand Nigerian women on a religious pilgrimage because they had arrived without male guardians.

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A mosque in Joplin burned to the ground early Monday in the second fire at the Islamic center in little more than a month, officials said.

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WikiLeaks said Tuesday that it had hired the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón to lead the legal team representing the site and its founder, Julian Assange.

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Caster Semenya will carry South Africa’s flag at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.

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The former Mets outfielder Lenny Dykstra has agreed to plead guilty to three counts stemming from a bankruptcy fraud case in Los Angeles, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

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