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A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of his younger adopted brothers found him miles away with traces of blood on him, officials said.

When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters.

The Internal Revenue Service official who led the unit that targeted tea party groups and publicly disclosed the activity has been replaced, making her the third top IRS official moved aside since the episode was revealed two weeks ago.

A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is co-hosting NBC's "Today" on Friday morning as part of a campaign to proclaim that the state's shore is ready for business seven months after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy.

An Interstate 5 bridge over a river collapsed Thursday evening, dumping two vehicles into the water and sparking a rescue effort by boats and divers who searched the chilly waterway north of Seattle.

Nicholas de Monchaux's book "Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo" (MIT Press, 2011) tells the real story of how International Latex Corporation (ILC), better known by its consumer brand for bras and girdles "Playtex," came to produce the spacesuit worn by the Apollo astronauts on the moon. De Monchaux's tale of the bra makers' lunar legacy is now being adapted into a movie for Warner Bros. by screenwriter Richard Cordiner.

South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building.

A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain.

Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.