When presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appears before Latino small-business owners in Washington on Tuesday, he'll address a group whose explosive birth rates foreshadow a seismic political shift in GOP strongholds in the Deep South and Southwest.

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GOP problem: Their voters are dying off’

NAIROBI — A suicide bomber dressed in military garb detonated his explosives during a military parade rehearsal on Monday in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, killing as many as 40 people and wounding dozens more, security officials said. Read full article > >

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Suicide bombing in Yemen kills scores at military parade rehearsal

Investigators are studying an explosive device they say terrorists in Yemen crafted to slip past airport metal detectors and onto a U.S.-bound plane.

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The CIA and overseas intelligence partners disrupted an al-Qaeda plot to blow up civilian aircraft using an advanced explosive device designed by the terrorist network’s affiliate in Yemen, U.S. officials said Monday. Read full article > >

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Army bomb disposal experts make safe a ‘viable explosive device’ which had been left in a vehicle near Newry, Northern Ireland.

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Bomb is found during Newry alert

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas describes actor as “wild,” “explosive.”

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Mel Gibson Accused of ‘Hating Jews’

Editor’s note: This post has been updated. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is stepping down as co-chairman of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s (R) Arizona campaign in the wake of allegations that he threatened to deport a former lover who declined to stay silent about their years-long relationship. Read full article > >

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BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber detonated a car full of explosives near a funeral procession here Friday morning, killing at least 31 people and injuring at least 60, a security official said. Mourners had gathered outside a hospital to receive the bodies of three people killed the night before, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The blast occurred in the Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, in the city’s southeast. Read full article > >

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Bomb kills dozens in Baghdad Shiite district

A man is arrested as police begin a search of a house in Somerset after executing a warrant under the Explosives Act.

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Serviceman Arrested at Texas Airport

The man was preparing to board a flight in Midland, Tex., when explosives in military-grade wrapping were discovered in his luggage, officials said.

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A man is detained at an airport in the US state of Texas after trying to carry explosives through security.

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A man was detained Saturday after trying to go through a security checkpoint at a Texas airport with explosives in military-grade wrapping, federal and local officials said.

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PEABODY, Mass. — A woman who just flew back home from Las Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk. Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake Wednesday, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives. Read full article > >

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The federal government is grappling with the explosive question of whether to let anyone of any age buy the controversial morning-after pill Plan B directly off drugstore and supermarket shelves without a prescription. The Food and Drug Administration has until Wednesday to respond to a request from the drug’s manufacturer to make the pill as easy to get as toilet paper and toothpaste, a move pushed by some doctors, health advocates, family-planning activists, members of Congress and others to help women prevent unwanted pregnancies. Read full article > >

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