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WASHINGTON – Whistle-blowers tipped off the government to $1.3 billion worth of fraud cases over the last year, largely at hospitals or other health care providers, the Justice Department said Tuesday. In all, the department recovered $3.1 billion in settlements — what prosecutors said was a record amount — from …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A new Amnesty International report condemns rampant sexual violence against Haitian girls and says it often goes unpunished. The document says most of the 238 rapes reported between January 2007 and June 2008 involved girls under age 18. Some were infants. The London-based human rights group says …

An Israel Defense Forces soldier was ordered to prison for 21 days after he yawned during a ceremony remembering slain former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Haaretz newspaper reported Wednesday. The soldier, who was not identified, reportedly yawned loudly while the commander of the Ramat David Israel Air Force base was …