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Prosecutors in the US state of Oregon Friday concluded there are no grounds for charging former vice president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore with sexual assault. Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said in an e- mailed statement that he concurs with the recommendation by investigators that there be no criminal ...

The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan topped 400 Friday as rains swelled rivers, inundated villages and triggered landslides, officials said. The toll was expected to increase because many people were reported missing, Pakistan's English-language newspaper Dawn reported....

''Jersey Shore'' star Nicole ''Snooki'' Polizzi has been arrested for alleged disorderly conduct, police told TMZ Friday. ''She's still in custody,'' an officer in Seaside Heights, N.J., told UsMagazine.com Friday afternoon. MTV, which airs the popular reality show, said, ''No comment'' when UsMagazine.com contacted the cable network ...

Deadly wildfires have killed more than 20 people in central Russia this week, officials said Friday. The fires come in a summer of unusual heat and drought, The New York Times reported. In Moscow, the temperature reached 100 degrees Thursday, making it the hottest day in the city since the first records 130 years ago. In the region ...

Ellen DeGeneres pulled the plug on her brief, ill-advised career as ''American Idol'' judge on Thursday and it's safe to say that fans are shedding few tears. DeGeneres, who arrived on a tidal wave of hype, just never found her groove, never hit the high notes....

U.S. President Barack Obama Friday said helping the auto industry was the right thing to do and that belief has been ''vindicated.'' Obama traveled to Detroit and sat in a new Jeep Cherokee before addressing Chrysler workers Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly Plant....

U.S. House ethics investigators Friday recommended a reprimand be issued against Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., for violating House rules or federal law. A subcommittee for the House Ethics Committee, which included Reps....

Investors may be fretting over the chance of a double-dip recession, but companies' earnings are coming in with sprinkles on top. More than half of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 have reported quarterly earnings, 304, and 75% of them have beaten earnings estimates....

Nearly 750 firefighters battled one of California's worst wildfires of the year Friday, getting an initial containment line around the 3,200 hectare Crown wildfire near Antelope Valley some 100 kilometres north of Los Angeles....

One person was killed and another injured Friday in an apparent explosion at a welding shop in Los Angeles, firefighters reported. The LA fire department said search dogs had been dispatched to the business at 911 E....