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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – More than 200 Taliban suspects ended a weeklong hunger strike at a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after a parliamentary delegation promised their cases would be reviewed, a lawmaker said Monday. Lawmaker Habibullah Jan said the three-member delegation received written demands from the prisoners …

DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has implemented a new policy that text messages sent on city-owned devices are considered private. Kilpatrick and his ex-top aide face perjury charges for testimony they gave during a whistleblowers’ trial that they didn’t have a romantic relationship. Sexually explicit text messages have contradicted …

A 3-year-old girl from England has a rare condition that confines her to darkness most days, according to an online report from the News & Star. Alice Tyson of Moorhouse, England, suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare condition that means exposure to sunlight, even for short periods, will permanently damage …