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SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. — The New Jersey shore ushered in the unofficial start of summer on Friday, with businesses making last-minute preparations and officials declaring the resort towns ready for visitors seven months after Superstorm Sandy.
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ATLANTA, Ga. — A growing legion of cyber war hawks contends that the world faces a mounting threat of hacker-driven cataclysm.
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British police are confirming that Friday morning's diversion of a passenger plane resulted in two arrests.
Full Story The Pentagon says a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion.
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Actress Amanda Bynes was arrested Thursday after throwing a marijuana bong out of a window in a midtown Manhattan apartment, police say.
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National and state parks will be open for business this summer, but it won't be business as usual: Washington's sledgehammer budget cuts and fewer state dollars will result in overflowing trash cans, closed visitor centers and fewer Junior Ranger programs.
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An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said.
Full Story WASHINGTON — China and the United States are hoping for a new chance to set the course for smoother relations through a secluded desert summit as the Asian power's leader Xi Jinping projects a more confident style.
Full Story California health officials on Thursday unveiled the likely rates that insurers will charge under the health-care law backed by President Barack Obama — and they are lower than expected, rebutting warnings by critics that many people will experience "rate shock" once the law is fully implemented.
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PHOENIX — The jury in Jodi Arias' murder trial was dismissed Thursday after failing to reach a verdict against the woman they convicted of murdering her one-time boyfriend in a case that captured headlines worldwide with its sex, lies, violence.
Full Story LONDON — Britain's World War II spying on U.S. isolationist groups and its propaganda efforts against them were revealed in secret archives published for the first time Thursday.
Full Story GRAPEVINE, Texas — In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday to ease a divisive ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation's leading youth organization.
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The area of Lilydale Regional Park where two children were killed and two injured Wednesday will be closed indefinitely, said St.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Virgin Group billionaire Sir Richard Branson may be dreaming not of a white Christmas, but a space-y one.
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WEST POINT, Utah — A 15-year-old Utah boy was taken into custody after his adopted brothers, ages 4 and 10, were found stabbed and slashed to death inside the family's suburban Salt Lake City home.
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Obama says attorney general will review guidelines in media leaks investigations
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will review the policy under which it obtains journalists’ records in investigations of the leak of government secrets.
Full Story Friday May 24, 2013 GRAPEVINE, Texas -- The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders -- a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors.
Full Story Thursday May 23, 2013
IRS official in targeting probe says she did nothing wrong -- then says no more, taking the 5th
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress.
Full Story Thursday May 23, 2013 WASHINGTON -- House lawmakers are moving to protect Capitol Hill’s budget even as they’re working to slash other programs like education, health research, water projects and housing aid for the poor.
Full Story Thursday May 23, 2013 WASHINGTON -- Sales of previously occupied U.
Full Story Thursday May 23, 2013
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- It’s not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn’t hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.
Full Story Wednesday May 22, 2013
Former IRS commissioner knew tea party groups targeted in 2012; says he didn’t tell anyone
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The former head of the Internal Revenue Service said he first learned in the spring of 2012 -- in the heat of the presidential campaign -- that agents had improperly targeted political groups that vehemently opposed President Barack Obama’s
Full Story Wednesday May 22, 2013 WASHINGTON -- Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla.
Full Story Wednesday May 22, 2013 CINCINNATI -- Tea party activists waving flags and signs, singing patriotic songs and chanting anti-IRS slogans held rallies outside federal buildings across the country Tuesday to protest the agency’s extra scrutiny of conservative groups.
Full Story Wednesday May 22, 2013 MOORE, Okla. -- Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.
Full Story Wednesday May 22, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Oklahoma City isn’t just a place where Thunder star Kevin Durant lives these days.
Full Story Tuesday May 21, 2013 WASHINGTON -- In another case of the Obama administration investigating classified information improperly disclosed to reporters, the government is prosecuting a State Department expert on North Korea in a probe that appears to step into uncharted territory -- by declaring that a journalist is committing a crime in disclosing leaked information.
Full Story Tuesday May 21, 2013 UNITED NATIONS -- The Palestinians have done all the legal work necessary to join 63 U.
Full Story Tuesday May 21, 2013 CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela’s opposition on Monday released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer.
Full Story Tuesday May 21, 2013 WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week.
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