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BOSTON – Jurors in the kidnapping trial of a German-born man calling himself Clark Rockefeller have asked the judge for more explanation on the insanity defense. The jurors sent a written question to Judge Frank Gaziano Wednesday asking exactly what prosecutors must prove to show Rockefeller was sane when he …

Health officials say a 48-year-old Pennsylvania woman who died at an upstate New York hospital had swine flu. Orange County officials say the woman had respiratory distress and other medical problems besides the flu and had been sick for a week before she sought treatment. According to hospital spokeswoman Deborah …

VIENNA – The U.S. and Canada challenged Iran’s claims that hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election, but much of the rest of the world remained silent Saturday despite claims of fraud and scenes of clashes on the streets of Tehran. For the Middle East and West alike, the stakes were high. …