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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee prosecutors want to try a 15-year-old boy as an adult in last week’s fatal shooting of a classmate in the middle of a crowded school cafeteria. Jamar Siler is charged with first-degree murder in last Thursday’s shooting death of 15-year-old Ryan McDonald at Knoxville’s Central High …

KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S.-led coalition says its troops have killed 25 militants and eight Afghan civilians held hostage by militants in southern Afghanistan. A coalition statement says its forces were ambushed from a building along a road in Uruzgan province on Sunday. It says the militants then moved into a …

WASHINGTON – Democrats signaled on Friday that they don’t see much hope in ending the Iraq war this year so long as President Bush insists U.S. troops remain committed there in large numbers. But party leaders wrote to Bush on Friday anyhow, telling him it’s not too late to change …