TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Saudi Arabia vowed on Wednesday that Iran would “pay the price” for an alleged plot to kill its ambassador in Washington and U.S. officials said there could be a push for a new round of U.N. sanctions. Tehran angrily rejected the charges laid out by a number of top U.S. officials on [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) ? New York police prevented protesters from shutting down Wall Street on Thursday, arresting at least 177 people in repeated clashes with an Occupy Wall Street rally that grew to several thousand strong. Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets in rainy New York and elsewhere in the United States for [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. ? Just because Joe Paterno is gone doesn’t mean the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State is over. The Nittany Lions started life without the 84-year-old Paterno on Thursday, introducing interim coach Tom Bradley while the board of trustees was just beginning its formal investigation. “We’re obviously in a very unprecedented [...]

WASHINGTON ? Democrats on Congress’ supercommittee secretly presented Republicans with a revised deficit-cutting proposal earlier this week that calls for a blend of $1 trillion in spending cuts and $1 trillion in higher tax revenue over the next decade, officials in both parties said Wednesday night, adding that compromise talks remain alive though troubled. The [...]

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