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Compromise among senators eyed on border security
WASHINGTON — After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in immigration le...
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Bernanke
Fed expected to slow bond purchases
WASHINGTON — Chairman Ben Bernanke ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by saying the Federal Reserve will likely slow its bond-buying program this year and end it next year because the economy is ...
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Ex-Chicago firefighter gets pension from prison
CHICAGO — A former Chicago firefighter who was convicted in the 1994 slaying of his wife has received more than $55,000 a year in pension payments from behind bars, according to a televised report....
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New wildfire prompts evacuations of homes
EVERGREEN, Colo. — A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in much of Colorado and elsewhere in the West m...
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Associated Press The IRS is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses. because of automatic spending cuts enacted this year, according to a GOP senator.
IRS draws criticism over bonuses
WASHINGTON — Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses. The Obama administrati...
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Associated Press George Zimmerman's father, Robert Zimmerman, Sr., listens to answers from prospective jurors during questioning in Seminole circuit court on the eighth day of his son's trial Wednesday in Sanford, Fla.
Zimmerman jurors whittled down
SANFORD, Fla. — Attorneys quizzed a whittled-down group of prospective jurors Wednesday in the Trayvon Martin case about whether they had fired guns, made judgments based on how people dressed or h...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One after a two-day official visit to Germany, at Tegel airport Wednesday in Berlin.
Proposed nuclear cuts face varied opposition
WASHINGTON — By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Col...
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Gandolfini
Gandolfini best known for work on ‘Sopranos’
LOS ANGELES — James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO’s “The Sopranos” helped create one of TV’s greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype ...
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Associated Press Country singer Slim Whitman died Wednesday of heart failure in Florida. He was 90.
Country singer Slim Whitman recorded more than 65 albums
MIAMI — Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy “Mars...
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Obama relying on untested oversight board
WASHINGTON — The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy ...
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