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DENVER (AP) — Nearly a fifth of Colorado’s medical marijuana dispensary operators could be forced out of business in coming weeks because of new state rules barring some convicted felons from the pot business, federal drug authorities say. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the CIA sent word in 2005 to destroy scores of videos showing waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, there was an unusual omission in the carefully worded memo: the names of two agency lawyers. (more)

VIENNA (AP) — President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have pledged the support of the United States in the global fight against AIDS. (more)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican revised its in-house rules to deal with clerical sex abuse cases Thursday, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and doubling the statute of limitations for such crimes. (more)

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Drug addicts as young as a month old. Mothers who calm their children by blowing opium smoke in their faces. Whole communities hooked on heroin with few opportunities for treatment. (more)

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan’s interim president said Friday that 2,000 people may have died in the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country’s south — many times her government’s official estimate — as she made her first visit to a riot-hit city since the unrest erupted. (more)

DRAPER, Utah (AP) — Death row inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner died in a barrage of bullets early Friday as Utah carried out its first firing squad execution in 14 years. (more)

OSH, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — An estimated 400,000 people — nearly one-twelfth the population — have fled their homes to escape Kyrgyzstan’s ethnic violence, the U.N. said Thursday as throngs of refugees huddled in grim camps along the Uzbekistan border without adequate food or water. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Families crowding together into single homes because of the bad economy helped increase the number of homeless families last year, even as the total number of homeless individuals dropped, federal housing officials reported Wednesday. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean couple were convicted Friday of abandoning their newborn daughter, who starved to death while they addictively played an online game raising a virtual child. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. Council has passed a measure to legalize medical marijuana, sending the bill to Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. (more)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Roman Catholic bishop in Brazil says he strongly supports the police investigation of three priests in his region accused of sexual abuse. (more)

SARGODHA, Pakistan (AP) — Five American terrorism suspects alleged Tuesday in a message on tissue paper that they were tortured by the FBI and Pakistani police trying to frame them, the latest wrinkle in a case that has added to sensitivities in U.S.-Pakistani relations. (more)

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A top lawmaker has asked West Virginia to re-examine its estimate that federal health care legislation could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars. (more)

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says an estimated 63,000 Somalis have been chased from their homes since Jan 1. because of intense fighting in the country. (more)

CORAOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) — A flight carrying 53 Haitian orphans has landed at Pittsburgh International Airport. (more)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The 5-month-old patient at the Israeli field hospital has a number rather than a name. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles City Council is poised to vote on a medical marijuana ordinance after months of hammering out criteria that would shutter hundreds of dispensaries. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is making it easier for Haitian orphans being adopted by Americans to enter the United States. (more)

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has signed legislation granting chronically ill patients legal access to marijuana. (more)