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After Fitch warned the U.S. its AAA rating could be in jeopardy, there is fear of a repeat of what happened in 2011, when Standard & Poors downgraded the U.S. to AA+.

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan Monday after years in exile. But he will receive less than a warm welcome from the country's current military ruler, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who has ordered the arrest of hundreds of his supporters.

Thousands of opponents to Pakistan's president plan to make their way to the capital Islamabad Thursday for an indefinite sit-in. The political crisis has been simmering for months. It erupted about two weeks ago when Pakistan's Supreme Court upheld a ban on on former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office. Sharif leads the country's largest opposition party.

The Firm was the book that turned John Grisham into a writing superstar. Now three decades later, he's returned to the characters that made him, with his follow up book The Exchange.

India's government is preparing to launch a big offensive to drive Maoist insurgents out of their jungle strongholds. The world has heard much about India's reputation as a thriving democracy and its rising economic power; less attention has been paid to the thousands of armed leftist rebels, who are active in about one-third of the country. This year alone, they have killed more than 250 security officials. The insurgency has now hit the headlines, after the rebels beheaded a police inspector.

Former Trump campaign attorney Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to pay a staggering $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he spread lies about following the 2020 election.

Some Minnesota voters seek to leverage uncommitted votes in the Democratic primary to protest the war in Gaza, similar to Michigan, hoping it will sway President Biden to change course on Gaza.

Thirty years ago this week, thousands of American teens gathered on the National Mall to pledge abstinence until marriage. The movement it created has influenced sex education in schools nationwide.

Can another round of U.S.-brokered cease-fire talks lead to an end to the war in Gaza? That's where tens of thousands of people have been killed and families have been repeatedly displaced.

Aaron Bushnell, who was an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force based in San Antonio, Texas, is seen in a video saying "Free Palestine!" after lighting himself on fire.