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WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy. She said the shift in policy is a signal the administration is …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to suspend action for a year on an indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur genocide charges, Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister said Monday. The African Union will make the request to allow progress in negotiations to …

INDIANAPOLIS – Thunderstorms that hit Indianapolis overnight caused some flooding at Lucas Oil Stadium, the new home of the Indianapolis Colts that’s scheduled to open next month. The Indiana Stadium and Convention Building Authority has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday afternoon to discuss the damage. The authority says crews …

Rosie O’Donnell laughed off a report that she and girlfriend Kelli Carpenter may be calling it quits, saying she thinks gossip columnist Cindy Adams “is a lesbian but she doesn’t know it yet.” Adams reported on Monday that “Rosie O’Donnell and Kelli Carpenter, the handsome blond gal Rosie calls her …

PINEHURST, N.C. – A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war in March 2003 has died of an apparent overdose, police said. The photograph of Joseph Patrick Dwyer running to a makeshift military hospital …

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas – Back on U.S. soil, three American hostages rescued from Colombia rebels are now in the process of reintegrating into a society they’ve been absent from for more than five years. They took the first steps Wednesday and Thursday as they underwent medical evaluations and began …

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa – An artificial arm and leg stolen last summer from a prosthetic limb maker in Clear Lake have been found — sticking out of a snow bank. The limbs, valued together at about $30,000, were found last Saturday, police said. They were in good condition and returned …

VIENNA, Austria – Germany’s foreign minister on Thursday said the international community remains determined to prevent Iran from developing technology for nuclear weapons despite U.S. assessments that it has stopped working on an arms program. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke before a briefing by Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the …

PONTIAC, Ill. – Cisco Torres and his family of four prepared to take shelter at Trinity Church for a second night after muddy flood waters entered their Watseka home and damaged their two cars. “Oh it’s a mess. We’re homeless and vehicle-less,” Torres, a construction worker, said on Thursday evening. …

LONDON – Climate change is warming Britain’s waters, eroding its coastline, harming its marine wildlife and increasing the likelihood of devastating storms and floods, the government said in a report published Wednesday. The “Marine Climate Change Impacts” report, drawn up by coalition of government bodies and researchers, said 2006 was …