Officials: Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016

Senior officials say 5,500 U.S. troops will be remaining in the country.

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Lamar Odom's pained life: Tragedy, celebrity, addiction

Lamar Odom's pained life: Tragedy, celebrity, addiction

Basketball star Lamar Odom on life support for second day as friends, family rally

(Reuters) – Former pro basketball player and reality TV star Lamar Odom was reportedly on life support for a second day on Thursday after falling unconscious at a Nevada brothel, as friends and family rushed to his bedside and asked fans to pray for his recovery. Odom, 35, the estranged husband of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian, on Tuesday was found unresponsive at Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Crystal,

Basketball star Lamar Odom on life support for second day as friends, family rally

(Reuters) – Former pro basketball player and reality TV star Lamar Odom was reportedly on life support for a second day on Thursday after falling unconscious at a Nevada brothel, as friends and family rushed to his bedside and asked fans to pray for his recovery. Odom, 35, the estranged husband of reality TV star Khloe Kardashian, on Tuesday was found unresponsive at Love Ranch, a legal brothel in Crystal,

Ex-U.S. House Speaker Hastert to plead guilty in hush-money case

By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to wrongdoing in a hush-money case, his lawyers told a federal judge in Chicago on Thursday. Prosecutors and defense attorneys did not say to which charge he would plead, or whether Hastert, the Republican speaker from 1999 to 2007, would serve time in prison. The agreement

Parishioners vow to continue Massachusetts vigil despite trespass ruling

Parishioners who have occupied their Massachusetts church for 11 years to prevent the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston from closing it vowed on Thursday to continue their vigil despite a ruling by the state’s top court that they are trespassing. A group of parishioners of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church in Scituate said they would keep up their 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week vigil, the last of a half-dozen mounted by Boston-area parishes