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HELENA, Montgomery (AP):The government shutdown is slowing the wheels of justice in federal courts by delaying civil cases, forcing prosecutors to operate with skeleton staffs, and raising uncertainty about the system's immediate future if the stalemate...

CLEVELAND (AP):A terminally ill Ohio man who arrived at his daughter's wedding by ambulance gave her away from a hospital gurney.

That bill would grant a pathway to US citizenship for 11 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.

BOSTON (AP): Voters convincingly backed a state law that allows marijuana to be used by people with debilitating medical conditions such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Gunmen kidnapped a team of seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross after stopping their convoy early today along a roadside in northern Syria, a spokesman said.

WASHINGTON (AP):House talks with President Barack Obama over ending the partial government shutdown and preventing a federal default have stalled, Speaker John Boehner told fellow Republicans yesterday, shifting the focus to Senate efforts to end the twin stalemates.

BEHRAMPUR, India (AP):The people of India are waking today to count the damage after a massive, powerful cyclone hammered its eastern coastline with heavy rains and destructive winds yesterday. Already, five persons have been reported dead.

The US has not provided details of the operation that led to Mehsud’s capture, but officials in Afghanistan say he was held in the eastern section of the country and taken to a US military base.

LONDON, England (AP):The British government took another crack at curbing illegal immigration yesterday, introducing a bill that would require immigration checks to accompany private-housing applications ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP):A new study has found that deaths in Indiana from drug misuse have quadrupled since 1999 for a jump bigger than all but three states.The study by the Trust for America's Health found Indiana had the country's 17th highest rate of drug...

The State Department says the delivery of large-scale military systems as well as cash assistance to the Egyptian government will be withheld.