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Markus Kaarma waits to be dismissed during an afternoon break in Missoula County Court in Missoula, Mont., in this Dec. 5 photo. A jury found Kaarma guilty Wednesday of deliberate homicide in the shooting death of a German high school exchange student who

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Montana Man Found Guilty Of Killing German Exchange Student

12:37pm December 18, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

Markus Kaarma shot 17-year-old Diren Dede, who had entered his garage, over the summer. The case was a test of the state's "castle doctrine," which says a man's home can be defended like his castle.

Rapprochement With Cuba: What It Includes And Excludes

12:31pm December 18, 2014

by Tom Gjelten and Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

President Obama's move to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba does not lift the trade embargo. That jurisdiction belongs to Congress, but do the upcoming changes all but undermine the embargo?

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Mixed Reactions In Miami On Diplomatic Overtures To Cuba

12:31pm December 18, 2014

by Greg Allen

When he announced the release of Alan Gross and plans to resume diplomatic ties with Cuba, Obama also referenced Miami. Some Cuban Americans welcome the changes, others see the action as a betrayal.

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Nurse Julietta Losoyo gives Derek Lucero a whooping cough vaccination at the San Diego Public Health Center on Dec. 10.

California Whooping Cough Infections Run High Among Latino Babies

12:22pm December 18, 2014

by April Dembosky

Public health officials in California are trying to understand why Latino babies are contracting whooping cough at much higher rates than other babies.

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Montana Man Cites 'Castle Doctrine' As Defense In German Teen's Shooting

11:21am December 18, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

The law says that a man's home is his castle and can be defended as such. Prosecutors said Markus Kaarma shot in cold blood the exchange student who had entered his garage.

The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., voted against Arizona's appeal, which would have allowed a state ban on driver's licenses for young undocumented immigrants.

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Supreme Court Refuses To Block Arizona Driver's Licenses For 'Dreamers'

10:33am December 18, 2014

by Lauren Hodges

Arizona's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed to prevent the state from having to issue driving permits to undocumented immigrants brought into the country as children.

When You Burn Off That Fat, Where Does It Go?

10:25am December 18, 2014

by Nancy Shute

Lipid metabolism may not sound sexy, but it's how you fit into that smaller pair of jeans. And when the fat says farewell, it has to go somewhere. Only some of it winds up in New Jersey.

Alan Gross and his wife, Judy, in Washington on Wednesday after his release from a Cuban prison.

Alan Gross' Release: How It Went Down

9:44am December 18, 2014

by Krishnadev Calamur

American Alan Gross had spent more than five years in a Cuban prison, where he suffered ill health. Then, on Tuesday, his lawyer, Scott Gilbert, told him in a phone call that he was going home.

A Pakistani health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child during a campaign in the northern city of Rawalpindi.

Pakistan Keeps On Vaccinating Despite Tough Terrain And Terror Threat

9:40am December 18, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

Just getting a measles vaccine to a child in Pakistan was once an impossible dream. Despite many obstacles, health workers have made great progress in stopping infectious diseases.

Judy Huth, left, appears at a news conference with attorney Gloria Allred outside the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire Division station on Friday. Huth says she was drugged and raped by comedian Bill Cosby in 1974 when she was 15 years old.

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LAPD Says It Will Investigate Abuse Claim Against Cosby

8:09am December 18, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Judy Huth, the latest accuser of the 77-year-old comedian, says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1974 when she was only 15. Cosby's lawyer has called the claim "absolutely false."