Sunday's vote to amend Turkey's constitution is shaping up as a referendum on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan—and whether Turks trust their prime minister to further Turkey's development as a Western-oriented democracy.

Families of four people who did not evacuate during mandatory order are working with authorities to locate their loved ones, as the fire has consumed 136 homes and 6,200 acres so far.

Wildfire Devours 100 Structures

Colo. Wildfire Blazes Through Canyon

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine casts the GOP as the party that 'drove the country into a ditch,' while Michael Steele and the RNC are launching bus trip focused on 'firing' Pelosi

FULL COVERAGE: AEHQ

Obama Targets Boehner

Behind Every President, the 'Bobbleheads'

OPINION: $$ Down the Drain?

New Republican video spoofs the popular television show, casting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the congressional version of bumbling boss Michael Scott

Reid and Angle Trade Jabs

EXCLUSIVE: Julian Assange, embattled head of WikiLeaks and subject of a rape investigation in Sweden, says he won't be stepping down without a fight amid internal squabbles at the site that leaked classified Afghan war documents

War Within WikiLeaks

Goldman Sachs agreed to a fine of nearly $31 million as part of an investigation by the Financial Services Authority that began shortly after U.S. regulators accused the firm in April of fraud.

Ahead of nationwide elections next month, Brazilian Federal Police are investigating whether tax officials affiliated with President da Silva's left-wing party illegally accessed the filings of opposition figures.

The economic recovery is advancing unevenly across the U.S., as regions reliant on such industries as manufacturing and farming show progress while those more dependent on housing continue to struggle.

While big banks are showing signs of recovering from the financial crisis, the outlook is worsening for many of the country's smaller community banks.

The newly appointed head of UN humanitarian relief Lady Valerie Amos has spent her first day in office touring Pakistan.

School named after Gore -- but it's on toxic contaminated soil!


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John Kluge was a corporate cobbler who became the richest man in America by breaking up Metromedia Inc. in 1984.

Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.