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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves to the crowd at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting in Washington on Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

    Supportive Congress to hear Israeli peace vision

    Israel's prime minister is to sketch his vision of Israeli-Palestinian peace before a sympathetic U.S. Congress on Tuesday, after reopening a dispute with President Barack Obama over the contours of a future Palestinian state.


  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center front), followed by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, arrives at the Capitol to address a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Netanyahu: Israel ready for 'painful compromises'

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to make "painful compromises" for peace with the Palestinians but said he would not agree to any deal that threatens Israel's security or its identity as a Jewish state.


  • President Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on May 20, 2011, in the Oval Office at the White House. (Associated Press)

    Obama, Netanyahu dispute 'between friends'

    Showing no progress toward peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat alongside President Obama on Friday and declared that Israel would not withdraw to 1967 borders to help make way for an adjacent Palestinian state.


  • FILE -- A March 25, 2010 file photo shows Kelly Preston, right, a cast member in "The Last Song," with her husband John Travolta at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. Travolta and Preston's publicist said the couple had a baby boy Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010 in Florida.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello/file)

    It's a boy for John Travolta and Kelly Preston

    John Travolta and Kelly Preston will have a new guest at their Thanksgiving table.


  • Hezbollah supporters hold up posters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before his speech in Lebanon Wednesday. His fierce opposition to Israel is popular. (Associated Press)

    Iran's leader, Hezbollah seen as Lebanon guardians

    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Lebanon late last week. In his wake, regional and local political tensions were left aggravated. But many Lebanese people say Iran and its support for Hezbollah, a Shiite military group that controls much of Lebanon, are necessary for their country's survival.


  • A Palestinian child stands on a side street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Monday, June 21, 2010. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat pressed ahead Monday with a contentious plan to raze 22 illegally built Palestinian homes to make room for a tourist center that Palestinians fear would tighten Israel's grip on the city's contested eastern sector. The site, called al-Bustan, is a section of the larger neighborhood of Silwan, which is home to some 50,000 Palestinians and 70 Jewish families. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

    Jerusalem revives plan to raze Palestinian houses

    Jerusalem's mayor pressed ahead Monday with a plan to raze 22 Palestinian houses in east Jerusalem to make room for an Israeli tourist center, a decision that could stir new tensions in the divided city and put Israel in conflict with the Obama administration.


  • Associated Press
A defense attorney noted the community contributions of Nicholas Browning, such as this prayer garden at the Epworth United Methodist Church, when asking people not to rush to judgment.

    Teen refused bail in killing of his family

    TOWSON, Md. (AP) — The 15-year-old boy charged with killing his parents and two brothers in their upscale suburban Baltimore home was denied bail yesterday.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant passes the ball around Phoenix Suns center Robin Lopez during the first half of Game 3 of the NBA basketball Western Conference finals Sunday, May 23, 2010, in Phoenix.

    Police charge boy, 15, with killing his family

    COCKEYSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County police yesterday charged a 15-year-old boy with fatally shooting his parents and his two younger brothers as they slept at their home in a suburb north of Baltimore.


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