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KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. and Afghan forces raided compounds suspected of being Al Qaeda sanctuaries in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, seizing weapons and explosives and arresting eight people, the U.S. military said. Meanwhile, insurgents hit a Canadian base in southern Afghanistan with mortars, wounding six soldiers, a Canadian military spokesman …

Two Michigan swans were carrying an apparently harmless version of the H5N1 bird flu virus. It is not the same H5N1 bird flu that has killed 139 people in Asia. “We do not believe this virus is a threat to human health,” Ron DeHaven, an administrator at the U.S. Department …

ANNAPOLIS, Md – Police have arrested four women in an investigation into prostitution ads that were posted on a popular Internet classifieds site. The women were arrested over the last three weeks at hotels near Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, police said. They were charged with illegally soliciting sex. Anne …