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Russia test-fired a ballistic missile Wednesday, a move that comes amid tensions about a recent NATO announcement that it placed an interim missile defense shield in Europe.

The uproar last week over a proposed campaign ad highlighting President Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, lit up political circles before organizers finally backed off the idea.

The jury in former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' corruption trial enters its fourth day of deliberations Wednesday.

Officials from six world powers are due to hold talks with Iranian representatives in Baghdad on Wednesday about Tehran's controversial nuclear program.

A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for treason, officials told CNN.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is threatening legal action over the online sale of a vial purportedly containing dried blood from the former president following a 1981 assassination attempt.