A pickup truck jammed with people has crashed in remote central Arizona. Four people are dead and nearly 30 are injured.

U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition that is growing but still short on manpower.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is "ready to help re-engage in negotiations" for the release of three American hostages held captive by rebels in Colombia, a visiting U.S. governor said late Saturday.

The Palestinian economy won't grow this year, largely due to Israeli restrictions on movement and despite billions of dollars in aid meant to shore up support for peace talks, the World Bank predicted Sunday.

Hundreds of angry people marched through Harlem on Saturday after theRev. Al Sharpton promised to "close this city down" to protest theacquittals of three police detectives in the 50-bullet shooting thatkilled an unarmed man on his wedding day and wounded

An 18-year-old man gunned down his father, stepmother and two siblingsat the home they shared in suburban South Carolina, authorities saidSaturday.

Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up therhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as sheissued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that'slargely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economicpain.

Plate umpire Kerwin Danley was taken off the field in an ambulanceafter he was struck by just below the throat by Brad Penny's 96 mph fastball thatDodgers catcher Russell Martin missed in the fourth inning Saturdaynight.

Suspected Taliban militants attacked a ceremony attended by the Afghan president on Sunday, unleashing automatic weapons fire that sent foreign dignitaries and senior members of the government fleeing for cover. President Hamid Karzai, who escaped unharmed, later appeared on television

Scientists urged residents of northern Nevada's largest city to preparefor a bigger event as the area continued rumbling Saturday after a magnitude 4.7 earthquake hit Friday night. More than 100 aftershocks have been recorded.

Crews are battling a wildfire in the Angeles National Forest above Sierra Madre that forced the evacuation of 100 homes and scorched 270 acres.