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Associated Press The Curiosity rover is set to drive toward Mount Sharp on Mars in mid-February after drilling into a rock.
Road trip on tap for Mars rover in new year
PASADENA, Calif. — Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat. Toppin...
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Woman charged with murder in subway death
NEW YORK — A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform into the path of a train because she has hated Muslims since Sept. 11 and thought he was one was charged Satur...
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Senate meets for last-minute ‘cliff’ discussion
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders groped for a last-minute compromise Saturday to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly prevent deep spending cuts at the dawn of the new year as President Barack ...
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Health of George H.W. Bush ‘improving’
HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush remained in intensive care at a Houston hospital on Friday but his condition continues to improve, a spokesman said. “The President is alert and, as a...
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3 officers hurt in station shooting
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A man who had been arrested for allegedly stalking an ex-girlfriend overpowered an officer inside a police station, grabbed her gun and shot her and two other officers b...
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Associated Press Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to a Republican policy luncheon Friday on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Last ditch effort to avoid ‘fiscal cliff’ under way
WASHINGTON — The end game at hand, the White House and Senate leaders took a final stab at compromise Friday night to prevent middle-class tax increases from taking effect at the turn of the new ye...
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Congress extends foreign surveillance law
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final congressional approval Friday to a bill renewing the government’s authority to monitor overseas phone calls and emails of suspected foreign spies and terrorists —...
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Associated Press Commuters wait on the platform Friday as a train passes through the 40th St-Lowry Street Station, where a man was killed after being pushed onto the subway tracks in the Queens section of New York. Police are searching for a woman suspected of pushing the man and released surveillance video Friday of her running away from the station.
Mayor: Keep 2 subway deaths in perspective
NEW YORK — For New York City, it wasn’t an unusual sight: a possibly mentally ill woman pacing and mumbling to herself on an elevated subway station platform. The woman eventually took a seat on...
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Associated Press Dawn Nguyen is escorted into the Federal Building on Friday in Rochester, N.Y. Nguyen is charged in connection with the guns used in the Christmas Eve ambush slaying of two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in Webster, N.Y.
Woman charged in connection with firemen slaying
WEBSTER, N.Y. — The neighbor of a convicted felon who ambushed firefighters on Christmas Eve, killing two, bought the guns for him and lied to the seller, knowing that he wasn’t allowed to have the...
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Dockworkers strike averted for now
NEW YORK — Dockworkers along the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico agreed Friday to extend their contract for more than a month, averting a weekend strike that could have crippled major ports from ...
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