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WASHINGTON – A senior Bush administration official said Tuesday that the United States is pushing Pakistan to fix “serious distortions” ahead of Feb. 18 parliamentary elections. Richard Boucher, the assistant secretary of state for South Asia, conceded before a House panel that “if history is any guide,” some fraud will …

DALLAS – A man on the run from police since his teenage daughters were found shot to death in a taxicab on New Year’s Day had threatened to hurt one of the girls for dating a non-Muslim boy, according to police documents. Authorities deflected questions Wednesday about whether the sisters, …

In American pop culture, the face of abortion is often a frightened teenager, nervously choosing to terminate an unexpected pregnancy. The numbers tell a far more complex story in which financial stress can play a pivotal role. Half of the roughly 1.2 million U.S. women who have abortions each year …