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This is the first time the Department of Transportation enforces a rule that limits runway idling to three hours.

A decision striking down the law in its entirety would end provisions affecting millions of Americans.

A Frankfurt stock trader who lost his job in the 2008 recession is working again in the city's financial district — running a successful business selling sausages to his former colleagues. Thomas Brausse says getting the pink slip enabled him to try out an idea he'd been thinking about for years.

In a letter, French President Nicolas Sarkozy offered his friendship to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week, Sarkozy was caught by an open microphone calling Netanyahu "a liar."

The telenovela actor turned singer flexes her creative muscles on her first English-language record.

Nearly a dozen official parties with ties to Islamist groups have sprung up in Egypt since the summer, and they are expected to do well in this month's parliamentary elections. Even so, observers say Egypt is likely to remain a moderate state.

Under a Department of Justice interpretation of existing law, it's possible for the government to bring charges against Internet users who for example lie about their weight on Match.com.

Top Pentagon leaders went to Capitol Hill Tuesday and took tough questions from lawmakers on the future of the U.S. relationship with Iraq. Specifically, they addressed how the decision to withdraw all U.S. combat troops by the end of this year will impact Iraq's stability — and U.S. national security interests in the region. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told a congressional committee that, while U.S. military commanders wanted to keep a contingency force on the ground, it was Iraq's decision to make.

Public health officials say the evidence is solid that fluoridated drinking water helps protect teeth. But that hasn't stopped opponents from lobbying local governments against the practice.

New Orleans has become the center of an education revolution, where more than 70 percent of students attend a charter school. By many measures, student achievement has improved. But the city's new system has led to questions about whether the district is truly open to the most challenging students.