Interfaith Families

JERUSALEM - The Palestinian president has left the door open to continuing peace negotiations with Israel even if it resumes settlement construction in the West Bank, offering a glimmer of hope that a compromise will be reached in a key dispute that has threatened to torpedo the newly relaunched talks.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio judge will hear arguments from a Christian convert who says a reunion with her Muslim parents is impossible before her 18th birthday next week.

CAIRO - An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a ruling that orders the country's Interior Ministry to strip the citizenship from Egyptians married to Israeli women.

NEW YORK - Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant sure knows how to make headlines.

LAS VEGAS - Rima Fakih knew she had won the 2010 Miss USA title when she saw the look on Donald Trump's face: It was the same one she'd seen him flash at the winners of "The Apprentice." The 24-year-old Lebanese immigrant - Miss Michigan USA to the judges - beat out 50 other women to take the title Sunday night, despite nearly stumbling in her evening gown.