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Obama selects Foxx to run Transportation
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday tapped rising Democratic politician Anthony Foxx to lead the Department of Transportation, an agency at the center of Washington’s fiscal fights. Foxx,...
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Lawyer: Former ricin suspect’s home unlivable
OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man’s house is uninhabitable after investigators searched it but failed to find evidence of the deadly poison ricin, a lawyer said Monday, arguing that the government ...
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US loans from China at issue in debt fight
WASHINGTON — Despite what you may have heard, China isn’t the country’s biggest creditor. America is. The bulk of the national debt — soon to exceed a staggering $17 trillion — is held by the Fe...
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Christie: Obama kept promise on storm aid
HIGHLANDS, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that President Barack Obama “has kept every promise he’s made” about helping the state recover from Superstorm Sandy. Hours later, Obama’s housi...
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Associated Press A woman walks past a retail store's window display in Baltimore on April 10. Despite less pay, U.S. consumers keep spending, thanks to cheaper gas, rising stocks, and low rates. On Friday, the government said consumers spent 3.2 percent more on an annual basis in the January-March quarter than in the previous quarter, the biggest jump in two years.
Consumers spend despite taxes
WASHINGTON — This year got off to a sour start for U.S. workers: Their pay, already gasping to keep pace with inflation, was suddenly shrunk by a Social Security tax increase. Which raised a wor...
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Associated Press Patrick Foley, head custodian at Jenny Lind Elementary School, puts up a sign about a candlelight vigil to be held for Lila Fowler in Valley Springs, Calif., on Monday. Authorities are searching for the killer of Fowler, 8, a third-grader at Jenny Lind, who se bodywas found by her 12-year-old brother in the family's Valley Springs home Saturday.
Community on alert as killer sought
VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. — A region of oak-studded hills in California, where big-city dwellers come to get away from crime, was on lockdown on Monday, two days after a mysterious intruder stabbed an...
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Some are overlooked in US immigration overhaul
SAN DIEGO — Carlos Gonzalez has lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border — and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the...
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Probe recounts ‘gray side’ of Pilot
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When federal agents descended on the Knoxville headquarters of Pilot Flying J on April 15, it was the first inkling the public and company executives had of an FBI and Internal R...
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New York police department whistle-blowers testify at trial
NEW YORK — After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker. That was ...
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Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marath...
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