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WASHINGTON – A House panel on Wednesday first rejected but then approved the Bush administration’s plan for prosecuting and interrogating high-value terror suspects while top Senate Republicans met with President Bush at the White House over a compromise plan for handling the detainees. The House Judiciary Committee first decided on …

DETROIT – Detroit Public Schools officials canceled classes until further notice Tuesday, the eighth day of a teachers strike. It was supposed to have been the first day of school for the district’s 130,000 students. But instead, students returning from summer vacation were greeted by teachers on picket lines instead …

LONEDELL, Mo. – State and federal investigators kept up the search Sunday for a woman who walked into a rural home, told a young mother “I’m here to take your child,” then slashed the mother’s throat and left with her 1-week-old baby. Franklin County Sheriff Gary Toelke said authorities had …