WASHINGTON — The White House says Iran is lashing out at the world to "distract attention" from the damage that international sanctions are having at home.Read more

PHOENIX — A federal trial began Wednesday for an Indiana man accused of forcing his grandsons to hike for miles in the Grand Canyon without food or water in brutal August heat.Read more

• Link | https://twitter.com/#!/AmandaLeeAP
• Link | https://twitter.com/#!/AmandaLeeAP

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four Texas Christian University football players were among 17 students arrested Wednesday in a campus drug bust, police said.Read more

CANCUN, Mexico — A Mexican judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. reality television producer to stand trial in the killing of his wife at a Cancun resort in 2010, and a defense lawyer said his client fainted when he heard the ruling.Read more

WASHINGTON — The president of the World Bank says he is stepping down.Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. homebuilders are gradually growing more optimistic about the depressed housing market and believe homes sales could pick up sharply when the spring buying season begins.Read more

NEW YORK — Stocks are mixed on Wall Street as Greece inches closer to a deal to resolve its debt crisis.Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. factories boosted output last month and December ended up being their best month of growth in five years.Read more

Deere & Co. posted a 4 percent jump in its quarterly profits thanks to strong equipment sales, but some expected better and potential headwinds from currency exchange rates overshadowed even a healthier outlook.Read more

• Link | www.deere.com

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran claimed Wednesday that it has achieved two major advances in its program to master production of nuclear fuel, a defiant move in response to increasingly tough Western sanctions over its controversial nuclear program.Read more