| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | FBI: Mom, teen dead; suspect still has 2 | | Local, state and federal authorities hunted across multiple states Monday for signs of a 35-year-old man who they consider "armed and dangerous" after he allegedly abducted a Tennessee mother and her three daughters. |
| Clinton on plot: 'Terrorists keep trying' | | The latest foiled bomb plot targeting an airliner is an indication that, while the device did not ultimately pose a threat, terrorists remain determined, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said Tuesday. |
| Opinion: Sarkozy's personality did it | | Two hours before the official results of the French presidential elections, no Paris visitor could ignore that a historical political change was about to happen. Down Paris' Left Bank boulevards, throngs of flag-waving young and not-so-young people were flocking towards the Socialist headquarters near the National Assembly. Cyclists were ringing their bells, cars blowing their horns and François Hollande's sympathizers chanting "Victoire!" Nicolas Sarkozy had just canceled a planned celebration at Concorde and the place, where the guillotine once stood, was alarmingly quiet and deserted. |
| What Hollande's win means for Europe | | French President-elect Francois Hollande is refraining from making big promises and faces major challenges now that 12 European nations are in recession, Justin Vaisse at Brookings writes. |
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