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A special U.S. Navy operation freed Richard Phillips — the captain who was held captive by Somali pirates for five days off the east coast of Africa. U.S. Navy snipers shot to death three of the pirates on Sunday.

President Obama says the economy is still stressed out, but there are "glimmers of hope." After meeting with economic advisers, the president says those include low mortgage rates leading to refinancing, increases in small business loans and stimulus tax cuts making their way into paychecks.

Romi Lassally's new book gathers together women's confessions of "mommy misdemeanors" — and offers an alternative viewpoint to the idealized notion of how blissful motherhood is supposed to be.

President Obama made an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Tuesday as he returned from his European trip. It's Obama's first war-zone visit as president.

Deborah Wiles isn't afraid to write about life's most serious issues. Her popular books deal with the joys of childhood — but they also grapple with intolerance, death, rejection and the difficulty of having to do what's right instead of what's easy.

British comic Russell Brand is known for his outlandish appearance, sharp wit and no-holds-barred language. He's put his over-the-top comedy on the page with his new memoir My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-up.

Binghamton, N.Y., Police Chief Joseph Zikuski says 14 people are dead after the shootings at an immigration-service center in the city. The shooter is believed to be among the dead, he said. A number of people were wounded, four critically.

A federal judge has ruled that certain detainees at the U.S. military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, have the right to challenge their imprisonments in U.S. courts. The judge ruled that prisoners who are not Afghan citizens and were picked up somewhere other than Afghanistan have the right to file habeas corpus suits in the U.S.

When it's inducted on Saturday, RUN DMC will not be the first rap group to make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — that was Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. But RUN DMC did achieve a number of historic firsts during its heyday in the 1980s.

If you met former Washington Post executive Leslie Morgan Steiner on the street, you might never guess her secret: that she was once married to a man who beat her with abandon on a regular basis