June 18, 2013
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Details of Saturday cuts planned in mail delivery
The Postal Service announced Wednesday that it planned to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages. The details: — Saturday delivery of mail, such as letters and ...
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Netflix could gain from loss of mail delivery
SAN FRANCISCO — Netflix won’t miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy. The U.S. Postal Service’s planned shift to five days of ...
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Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron tokens
PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the iron, toy maker Hasbro Inc. anno...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2010 as they walk to Netanyahu's car outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Netanyahu with his first trip to Israel as president this spring.
Obama seeks to reset relationship with Netanyahu
WASHINGTON — After a long and chilly four years, Barack Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he makes his first trip to Israel as president this...
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Associated Press A windowless DC-9 jet sits on the tarmac Wednesday at Dothan Regional Airport in Dothan, Ala. Within hours after Jim Lee Dykes shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy on Jan. 29, workers contracted by the FBI were feverishly unloading boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an array of guns from the plane.
Military tactics, arms, helped rescue hostage
Within hours after an armed, angry man shot a school bus driver and kidnapped a 5-year-old boy, workers feverishly unloaded boxes packed with percussive grenades, military C-4 explosives and an arr...
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Scouts delay decision on policy excluding gays
IRVING, Texas — Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays. Whatever the organization eventually does, i...
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Associated Press Scottish fold Maru rests in a cardboard box in June 2011 in Japan. After years of viral YouTube viewing and millions of shares, the cat stars of the Internet are coming into their own in lucrative and altruistic ways.
Internet cat stars scratch for fame
NEW YORK — They frolic in empty boxes and stick their heads under faucet streams of water. They dance on tippy toes and fly through the air with Pop-Tarts. They play piano wearing little frocks and...
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Associated Press Imam Anwar al-Awlaki speaks Oct. 2008 in Yemen. A Justice Department document says it is legal for the government to kill U.S. citizens abroad if it believes they are senior al-Qaida leaders continually engaged in operations aimed at killing Americans.
Congress to consider limits on drone strikes
WASHINGTON — Uncomfortable with the Obama administration’s use of deadly drones, a growing number in Congress is looking to limit America’s authority to kill suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizen...
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Hagel would be 5th chief with enlisted time
WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama declared that his defense secretary nominee, Chuck Hagel, would be the first former enlisted man to lead the Pentagon, he seemed to overlook four previous d...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Tuesday in Washington. The president will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.
Obama urges stopgap budget deal
WASHINGTON — Eager to buy time and avoid economic pain, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to pass targeted short-term spending cuts and higher taxes as a way to put off sweeping, aut...
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