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Libyan rebels say a close Moammar Gadhafi associate who was once the No. 2 regime official has defected, in another blow to the increasingly isolated Libyan leader. Abdel Salam Jalloud helped Gadhafi gain power in 1969, but he began to clash with the leader starting in the 1990s.

The state's attorney general argues the part of the law that requires Arizona to get permission from federal authorities before making changes to its congressional districts is unconstitutional and "archaic."

Mortgage rates are now below 4 percent. The average 30-year fixed-rate loan is at an all-time low. But high unemployment, weak consumer confidence, and tougher standards for getting credit, are keeping many Americans from buying homes.

Based first in Kansas, then in California, now in Connecticut, the members of Mates of State have been making music for 15 years. Still, their ebullient new album is a sonic surprise.

It marks the second setback this year for the unit charged with one of the military's most sensitive missions.

Mark Sutton doubled for 007 at the London Games, when Bond and "Queen Elizabeth II" parachuted into the stadium. Sutton died Wednesday while wingsuit flying in Switzerland.

For the first time in the competition's 86-year history, a vocabulary test is part of the preliminary and semifinal rounds.

If you're scratching your head wondering what the heck geocaching is, Dave Prebeck fills us in. The president of the Northern Virginia Geocaching Organization tells host Scott Simon that geocaching is essentially "a high-tech scavenger hunt."

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia will bring evidence to the U.N. Security Council. Russia is still, though, working with the U.S. to get Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to give up its chemical weapons.

A top official at the Environmental Protection Agency was in Syracuse on Monday to highlight the county's work in green infrastructure.Hitting on Onondaga…