Nome (United States) (AFP) - Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod sled dog race for the second time, edging Ally Zirkle by two minutes and 21 seconds Tuesday to keep the title in the family. Seavey, a third-generation musher, became the youngest winner in Iditarod history two years ago at the age of 25 and his father, Mitch, became the oldest winner last year, capturing his second title at 53 after winning his first in 2004. This year, the younger Seavey charged from behind to reach the finish line in eight days, 13 hours, four minutes and 19 seconds. Zirkle finished second for the third successive year, again thwarted in her quest to become the first woman musher to win the Iditarod since Susan Butcher took the last of her four triumphs in 1990.

The British are invading the U.S. comics market as publisher 2000 AD unveils "Brass Sun," a six-issue miniseries that is being published in the size and format of traditional titles printed by American counterparts.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that planned U.S. financial aid to Ukraine is illegal and outside American legal norms since it would be funding an illegitimate regime. "By all criteria, issuing funding to an illegitimate regime that seized power by force is unlawful and goes beyond the framework of the American legal system," the ministry said in a statement. The statement echoed assertions made earlier in the day by ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich. The ministry also warned Washington about the consequences of "unconditionally indulging radical elements" in Ukraine.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is getting its first test ahead of the 2014 midterm elections Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where Democrats and Republicans have spent millions of dollars trying out national strategies for the rest of the year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA Tuesday of criminal activity in improperly searching a computer network set up for lawmakers investigating allegations that the agency used torture in terror investigations during the Bush administration.

LONDON (AP) — Bank of England Governor Mark Carney on Tuesday sought to shield his institution from being dragged further into a global scandal over the alleged manipulation of foreign exchange markets.

Latvia's government warned people to avoid an annual march of World War Two Waffen SS veterans through its capital Riga on Sunday, citing tensions over Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention in Ukraine's Crimea, on the grounds that Russian speakers there need to be protected, has alarmed many in the Baltics. "The Cabinet of Ministers ... calls on everyone not to participate in any events," the government said in a statement, saying the Latvian government wanted to avoid any association with sympathy for Nazism. Now in their 80s and 90s, the men who joined the armed wing of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party say they were fighting for Latvian freedom at the end of the war and against the return of the Soviet Red Army.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — One of 13 University of Iowa football players who were hospitalized after a high-intensity workout three years ago says his injuries were preventable but caused lasting harm, outlining his claims in the first lawsuit to stem from the incident.

PARIS (AP) — European Union countries are preparing tougher new sanctions against Russia that they could impose by Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Adam Vinatieri had two wishes in free agency.