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Boehner: Up to Democrats to prevent budget cuts
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday it’s unlikely the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate will prevent a wave of automatic spending cuts from beginning to strik...
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Associated Press Law enforcement authorities investigate the charred remains of a cabin Wednesday where quadruple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner is believed to have died after barricading himself inside during a Tuesday stand-off with police in the Angeles Oaks area of Big Bear, Calif.
Sheriff: Cabin’s burning unintentional
LOS ANGELES — There was no question. The man standing before Rick Heltebrake on a rural mountain road was Christopher Dorner. Clad in camouflage from head to toe and wearing a bulletproof vest p...
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Pentagon creates new medal for cyber, drone wars
WASHINGTON — They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. But the troops who launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foo...
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Associated Press Gerry Cahill, president and CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines (left) walks to a podium Tuesday to address media representatives during a news conference regarding the cruise ship Carnival Triumph at the company's headquarters in Miami. After a Sunday engine room fire that left the Triumph without propulsion in the Gulf of Mexico, the ship is being towed to Mobile, Ala., and is expected to arrive there Thursday.
Stranded passengers on cruise ship facing grueling conditions
HOUSTON — The head of Carnival Cruise Lines said Tuesday his company was working hard to ensure the thousands of passengers stranded on a disabled ship in the Gulf of Mexico were as comfortable as ...
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Associated Press Crowds of revelers stand Tuesday on Bourbon Street, as seen from the balcony of the Royal Sonesta Hotel during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Despite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy floats with make-believe monarchs in an all-out bash before Lent.
Rain, gloomy skies can’t stop Mardi Gras
NEW ORLEANS — Despite threatening skies, the Mardi Gras party carried on as thousands of costumed revelers cheered glitzy floats with make-believe monarchs in an all-out bash before Lent. In the Fr...
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Associated Press Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks Thursday in his Capitol Hill office in Washington.
GOP warns Obama against tax increases, deficit spending
WASHINGTON — Republicans warned Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda would bring more tax increases and escalate deficit spending, casting the president’s policies as impediment...
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Bitter dispute fueled courthouse shooting
WILMINGTON, Del. — A bitter custody battle that included an international kidnapping and prison sentences for a former optometrist and his mother ended in gunfire at a Delaware courthouse, with the...
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Obama: Half of combat troops home in 1 year
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s decision to bring home within a year about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan will shrink the force to the size he found it when he entered the ...
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Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon
WASHINGTON — A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama’s nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation’s defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican q...
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Obama pledges swift reaction to nuke test
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reacted sharply to North Korea’s nuclear test Tuesday, promising swift international action to bring the rogue communist regime in line. The detonation came hour...
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