NH couple arrested at Fla. parade after boy burned

By By LISA RATHKE
Associated Press

Moments after they watched a parade at a theme-park in Orlando, Fla., a New Hampshire couple suspected of beating and burning the woman's 3-year-old son was arrested.

Jessica Linscott and her boyfriend, Roland Dow, were taken into custody Wednesday evening at Universal Studios, U.S. marshals

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White House, Congress talk as 'fiscal cliff' nears

By By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Amid increasing anxiety that the White House and top Republicans are wasting time as the government slides toward an economy-rattling "fiscal cliff," administration officials are heading to Capitol Hill for talks with congressional leaders.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner

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Islamist-led assembly votes on Egypt constitution

By By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) - An Islamist-dominated panel tasked to write a new constitution for Egypt began voting on Thursday on the document's final draft, a move likely to stoke a widening political crisis over decrees giving the nation's Islamist president near absolute powers.

Fast tracking the process

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Congo rebels pulling back; fate of Goma uncertain

Congo rebels pulling back; fate of Goma uncertain
By By MELANIE GOUBY and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
Associated Press

GOMA, Congo (AP) - Rebels, who last week seized one of the most important cities in eastern Congo and advanced beyond, said Thursday that they had pulled back several miles (kilometers ) to the town of Sake and were on track to leave the key city by Friday, in

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Palestinians certain to win recognition as a state

By By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state Thursday in a General Assembly vote that Israel and the United States warn could delay hopes of achieving an independent Palestinian homeland through peace talks with Israel.

The United States, Israel's

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