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ATLANTA – A 21-year-old firefighter was arrested on charges that he attempted to solicit a minor child for sex. The FBI says Rocky Davis Jr., a Walker County firefighter and EMT, was arrested on Friday after he engaged undercover officers in a series of chats on the Internet. FBI Special …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country could deter any military strike by Israel. It said the five-day drill will cover an area a third of …

BATON ROUGE, La. – A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black has resigned. Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office spokesman Jacques Berry says Keith Bardwell’s resignation is effective Tuesday. Bardwell refused to perform the ceremony for Beth …

BEIJING – China’s police chief accused ethnic Muslim separatists of staging a bizarre series of hypodermic needle stabbings that sent thousands of Chinese into the streets in angry protests for a second day Friday to demand increased security in this western city. Police used tear gas and public appeals to …

Federal counterterrorism officials warned local police to patrol stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes for suspicious activity after the arrest of a Colorado shuttle driver and others suspected in a potentially far-reaching terror plot. But officials said the FBI/Homeland Security bulletins weren’t tied to known threats and police in Washington D.C. …

President Obama’s Christmas could not have been calm after that loon from Nigeria tried to blow up a Northwest jetliner as it approached Detroit. Because the Obama administration has changed so many Bush anti-terror policies, any terrorist activity will engender controversy. The president had to wince when Homeland Security chief …

President Obama says small businesses will be big winners under health care reform, but some entrepreneurs and the organizations that represent them say the only thing big about the new law will be the problems and taxes that come with it. “It’s going to create huge uncertainty and the potential …

Environmental groups are blasting a U.S. Border Patrol project to kill invasive plant life along the Mexican border with an herbicide activists are calling the next Agent Orange — the Vietnam War-era deforesting chemical later found to cause cancer. But scientists say the chemical, a relatively common herbicide named Imazapyr, …

The man who authorities say strapped a highly powerful explosive to his torso and tried to detonate it in midair never would have gotten aboard the plane if a different security detector had been used when he boarded the flight, security experts and officials say. “Puffer” machines, full-body imaging scanners, …

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM “YOUR WORLD” ON AUGUST 27:) NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: You always keep dismissing it, saying, “You know, in the scheme of things, it’s small. What are you arguing about? What are you moaning about?” MARTIN FROST, FORMER TEXAS CONGRESSMAN: Neil, they ought to fix the problem at …