ATLANTA - South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who faces growing calls to quit over his affair with an Argentine woman, did not misuse public funds in trips he made to see his mistress, the state’s top police official said on Thursday.

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South Carolina governor did not misuse state funds: official

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NEW YORK - U.S. marshals seized the luxury $7 million New York City penthouse apartment of imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff and his wife, Ruth, officials said on Thursday.

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U.S. marshals seize Madoffs’ $7 million NY apartment

BAGHDAD - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden made a previously unannounced visit to Baghdad on Thursday to meet Iraqi leaders and U.S. military commanders just days after American troops withdrew from Iraqi towns and city centers.

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Vice President Biden visits Baghdad

PARIS - The Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic last month hit the water intact and at high speed but was missing for six hours before an emergency was declared, French investigators said on Thursday.

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Doomed Air France plane hit sea intact: investigators

LOS ANGELES - Jermaine Jackson on Thursday said that when he first saw his brother, pop star Michael Jackson, dead in a hospital room he kissed him on the forehead and wished that he had died instead.

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Jermaine Jackson: "I wish it was me" who died

The U.S. Marshals Service on Thursday took possession of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s $7 million Manhattan penthouse, an action that forced his wife to move elsewhere.

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US Marshals seize Madoff penthouse property