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Munch's 'The Scream' may fetch $80M at NYC auction
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the art world's most recognizable images - Edvard Munch's "The Scream" - could sell for $80 million or more when it is auctioned at Sotheby's on Wednesday....
Calif. man forgotten in cell says he drank urine
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A San Diego college student who federal drug agents forgot and left in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet said Tuesday that he drank his own urine to survive....
Fla. police say man kills 2, injures daughter
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities are searching for a 55-year-old man they say killed his wife and the boyfriend of his pregnant daughter in Florida before threatening to attack officials at a Massachusetts-based company....
US: blind activist in medical care, to see family
BEIJING (AP) -- A U.S. official says a blind Chinese legal activist who was at the center of a diplomatic tussle between Washington and Beijing has left the U.S. Embassy to receive medical care in Beijing and be reunited with this family....
Secret trip trickled out then the trickle stopped
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was the secret that bent but never quite fully broke....
2 men held, questioned in Detroit escort slayings
DETROIT (AP) -- Two men were held for questioning Tuesday as part of an investigation into the slayings of four Detroit women whose bodies were found in car trunks after three of them placed online escort ads, police said....
Officer shoots, wounds teen outside Texas school
PASADENA, Texas (AP) -- A police officer told investigators Tuesday that he shot a 14-year-old boy suspected in the overnight break-in of a Houston-area classroom after believing the teenager was reaching for a gun....
Obama: US emerging from 'dark cloud of war'
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is emerging from more than a decade under the "dark cloud of war," with the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ending and the war in Iraq now over....
Feds examine response to Montana sexual assaults
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the way Missoula police, prosecutors and the University of Montana have responded to reports of sexual assault and harassment after the federal agency learned of complaints that cases were not being properly handled....
In Kabul, Obama highlights foreign policy record
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, addressing the nation from Kabul as Republicans said he's overdoing the celebration of Osama bin Laden's death one year ago....
