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Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were camped out at a rural property where a suspect was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker Wednesday after fatally shooting a school bus driver. He had reportedly fled with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.

Senator John Kerry (D-Mass)was overwhelmingly confirmed Tuesday as the 68th secretary of state by his colleagues in the U.S. Senate

Kimberly McCarthy, the Dallas woman convicted and sent to death row for the 1997 stabbing of her neighbor, won a reprieve from the death chamber on Tuesday.