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The Wall Street Journal off-leads and Bloomberg reports that Ford Motor Co. (F), the most robust of the Big Three, plans to issue 300 million shares of common stock in a public offering that will further distance itself from its cross-town rivals and will take advantage of an 11-week stock rally.

The unprecedented deficit figures flow from the deep recession, the Wall Street bailout and the cost of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill - as well as a seemingly embedded structural imbalance between what the government spends and what it takes in.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A U.S. soldier fired on his fellow troops at a counseling center at a base outside Baghdad on Monday, U.S. officials said, killing five people in the worst such attack of the six-year war.

Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - More than 300 stray dogs that were dumped on isolated islands turned to cannibalism after weeks of starvation, animal welfare activists said Thursday.

A US led air strike in Afghanistan is believed to have killed as many as 100 civilians, including many women and children.

LONDON - Britain for the first time has published a list of people barred from entering the country for what the government says is fostering extremism or hatred.

A man who killed five people after deliberately driving at a crowd cheering Holland’s Queen has admitted it was an attack on the royal family, officials said.

LOS ANGELES — Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a film actress at his mansion six years ago.

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) - An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday and three of the pirates who held him for days in a lifeboat off the Somali coast were killed in a operation by U.S. Navy Seals that was approved by President Barack Obama, officials said.

Meet Kyle Joseph Campbell. Just call him Original Kreeam Shabazz.

Campbell of Mariners Harbor recently tried for a second time to change his name legally, a year after his first choice, Black Cream Allah, was denied by a judge on the grounds it resembled a rap song title and was sacrilegious.

BETHANY — A manhunt is under way in Bethany as Bethany police, Oklahoma City police and US marshals look for a man accused of kidnapping, beating and raping a woman earlier today.

Police say five children were found dead in their Graham, Washington, mobile home on April 4, 2009. Their father, found dead miles away, apparently murdered them before taking his own life, according to police.CBS

A blogger on www.travbuddy.com describes how she and her travel companion were supposedly allowed to play with the animals even more closely after the zoo had closed: “I love Argentina. People aren’t hung up on safety. They don’t have as many fears as the rest of the world. The zoo closed and we kept going to the cages because we had a little bravery in us. Since it was only us, the guys who worked at the zoo let us take goofy pictures with the animals. I sat on a lion’s back. haha”

A missile fired by a suspected US drone has killed at least 10 people in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, eyewitnesses say.