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NEW YORK – A New York judge has convicted the Rev. Al Sharpton of disorderly conduct during protests over a police shooting and sentenced him to time served. Criminal Court Judge Larry Stephen issued the verdict Wednesday against Sharpton and seven other activists. Sharpton has already served 5 1/2 hours …

SEATTLE – Seven Puget Sound killer whales are missing and presumed dead in what could be the biggest decline among the sound’s orcas in nearly a decade, say scientists who carefully track the endangered animals. “This is a disaster,” Ken Balcomb, a senior scientist at the Center for Whale Research …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – The United Nations has raised its security level for the Pakistani capital following the Sept. 20 truck bombing of the Marriott Hotel, U.N. officials said Thursday. The move underlines the deteriorating situation in Pakistan, which is under intense U.S. pressure to combat Islamic militants responsible for rising …