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Air Force secretary stepping down after 5 years
WASHINGTON — Air Force Secretary Michael Donley will step down after a five-year tenure during which he improved the service’s handling of nuclear materials, but had to deal with scandals surroundi...
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Red line: Obama cautious on Syria chemical weapons
WASHINGTON — Proceeding cautiously, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would change his “calculus” about U.S. military involvement in the 2-year-old...
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Man named in ricin case goes into hiding
SALTILLO, Miss. — A Mississippi man whose home and business were searched as part of an investigation into poisoned letters sent to the president and others has dropped out of sight in order to esc...
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Associated Press Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (left), mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, speaks Thursday at a news conference in Makhachkala in the southern Russian province of Dagestan. Two government officials tell reporters that U.S. intelligence agencies added her to a federal terrorism database about 18 months ago.
Suspects’ mom in terror database
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. Sh...
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Boston suspect is moved; FBI searches landfill
BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center, while FBI agents searched for evidence Friday in a landfill near the college...
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Possible 9/11 plane landing gear part found in New York
NEW YORK — A rusted 5-foot-tall piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the hijacked planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered near the World Trade Center wedged between...
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FACT CHECK: Did FAA have to furlough controllers?
WASHINGTON — With disgruntled passengers complaining about airline flight delays, Republican lawmakers and the airline industry pounced on the Obama administration. The glitch was invented by the W...
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Associated Press This 1913 Liberty Head Nickel, one of only five known to exist, was auctioned Thursday night during the Central States Numismatic Society show at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill., for $3,172,500.
1913 nickel fetches more than $3.1 million
RICHMOND, Va. — Four Virginia siblings who never let a rare 5-cent piece slip through their fingers, even when it was declared a fake, have been rewarded for their devotion to a humble family heirl...
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Obama backs Planned Parenthood in political fight
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama vowed Friday to join Planned Parenthood in fighting against what he said are efforts by states to turn women’s health back to the 1950s, before the Supreme Court...
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Flight delays sway Congress
WASHINGTON — Furloughed air traffic controllers will soon be heading back to work, ending a week of coast-to-coast flight delays that left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious. Unable t...
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