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An Afghan security official says the Taliban have attacked a border police checkpoint in the country's south near the border with Pakistan, killing 11 policemen.

A Boston University journalism professor and former ABC News correspondent has been sentenced to three years of probation for vehicular homicide in Massachusetts.

Vernon Wells had a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth inning, Mariano Rivera earned a four-out save and the New York Yankees rallied from three runs down to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Wednesday night and snap a four-game skid.

The executive director of Brazil's anti-doping authority says the 2014 World Cup host won't be able to handle the drug-testing program alone and is looking overseas for help.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is paying $920 million in penalties and admitting wrongdoing over a $6 billion trading loss last year that tarnished the bank's reputation. Regulators say that weak oversight at the largest U.S. bank enabled traders in its London operation to assign inflated values to trades and cover up losses as they ballooned. Th...

The number of people unaccounted for from Colorado's devastating flooding has fallen to about 200.

The stock market is opening higher after setting a record high the day before. Major stock indexes moved further into record territory shortly after the market opened Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 11 points to 15,688...

The jet fueling system at Boston's Logan International Airport is up and running after a fire but officials say there are some residual flight delays.

House GOP leaders appear likely to give tea party lawmakers a chance to use a routine temporary government funding bill to try to muscle the Democratic-controlled Senate into derailing President Barack Obama's health care law.

Drugstore chain Walgreen will become the latest big employer to send its workers shopping for their health insurance instead of providing a few choices for them.