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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A mother accused of abandoning a 14-month-old Maryland boy on the front porch of a stranger's home in central Ohio is scheduled for arraignment Wednesday on a child endangerment charge as police searching for the toddler warn he may be dead.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A plan to convert Broadway lyricist Oscar Hammerstein's former home into a tourist attraction appears to be falling on deaf ears, but his grandson hopes public officials will soon start singing a different tune.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has denied reports that Washington offered to trade Iranian prisoners for a former U.S. Marine jailed since 2011.

WASHINGTON (AP) — New episodes in the nation's long-running political drama over health care are coming via your news feed in 2015.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of Americans say they already have enough information at restaurants to decide whether they are making a healthy purchase. But they want even more.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Bosnia says a former American school teacher is being extradited to the United States to face prosecution in Illinois on sexual assault charges.

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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — A man with a lengthy criminal record killed six adults and two young children before taking his own life in Edmonton in what the police chief on Tuesday called the western Canadian city's worst mass murder.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has denied reports that Washington offered to trade Iranian prisoners for a former U.S. Marine jailed since 2011.

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese police have been arrested in the beating death of a female construction worker who was attempting to receive her wages, state media reported Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Gay marriage cases are on the Supreme Court's agenda with enough time for the issue to be argued and decided by late June.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday refused to block gay marriages in Florida, the latest of about three dozen states allowing same-sex weddings.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The first formal divorce for a gay couple in Florida history was granted Wednesday by a Broward County judge who used the case to join other judges in declaring the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — One is a sharp-tongued, self-described "wise guy" originalist, who believes the Constitution means today what it meant when it was first written.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police can use evidence seized during a traffic stop even if it turns out the officers initially pulled a car over based on a misunderstanding of the law, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Bosnia says a former American school teacher is being extradited to the United States to face prosecution in Illinois on sexual assault charges.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week, but the number of applications continues to be at historically low levels that suggest solid economic growth will continue.

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has banned Ridley Scott's biblical epic "Exodus," provoking an angry response by politicians and filmmakers in this North African country.

After a turbulent year marred by terror woes, Ebola outbreaks and a horrific series of airline disasters, many could be forgiven for saying good riddance to 2014 and gratefully ringing in a new year.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — When Antanas Zubavicius turns the light on in his run-down house, it's the only light for miles. He is the last man in Dumbliuneliai, a once busy farmers' village in Lithuania that has gradually been abandoned as its residents emigrated in search of better jobs.