Two children were killed Friday night in a fiery car crash on Route 50 in Prince George’s County, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly before 10 p.m. in the eastbound lanes near Martin Luther King Jr. highway, said Maj. Paul Cruz, a county fire department spokesman. Three cars were involved in the crash, Cruz said. One of the vehicles caught fire, and the children were apparently both in that car, he said. Read full article > >

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The family of a Yale pharmacology student who was killed by a lab technician shortly before her wedding day has sued the university, saying it failed to protect women on its campus.

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Slain Yale student’s family sues school

Al-Qaeda releases a message it says was made by Osama Bin Laden shortly before his death.

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New tape ‘by Bin Laden’ released

Senate vote expected shortly before the measure currently keeping the government running is set to expire on Friday.

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House approves three-week government funding measure, sending it on to Senate

Michael Jackson’s doctor tried to conceal having given the singer a powerful anaesthetic shortly before he died, prosecutors say at a hearing.

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Michael Jackson’s doctor tried to conceal having given the singer a powerful anaesthetic shortly before he died, prosecutors say at a hearing.

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So a storm may have been responsible for the 3,000 dead blackbirds that rained on Arkansas shortly before New Year’s, but what about these birds? Five hundred dead redwing blackbirds and starlings turned up in Louisana, three days after the ones in…

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The priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing met Martin McGuinness shortly before he died, the deputy first minister confirms.

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