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Associated Press An American flag hangs in front of a burning structure Tuesday in the Black Forest, a thickly wooded rural region north of Colorado Springs, Colo. Authorities reported early Saturday that 473 houses had been incinerated. That compares with a report of a little over 400 just a few hours earlier.
Firefighters advance containment on wildfire
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado sheriff said firefighters “are getting the upper hand” on the most destructive wildfire in state history Saturday, an announcement that came as authorities gain...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron walk off the stage May 13 after their joint White House news conference, where they spoke about Syria's civil war and other topics. Obama will be joining global leaders in Northern Ireland Monday for the Group of Eight summit of the world's top industrial nations.
Obama takes bolder Syria stand as G-8 opens
WASHINGTON — After months of caution, President Barack Obama suddenly is positioned more aggressively on Syria than the global leaders he’s joining at a summit Monday, now that he has authorized we...
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Associated Press Karl Owen poses with his children Jordan (left), 15, and Marcus, 13, on Friday in their Chapel Hill, N.C., home. Owen lost his wife and the mother of their two children to cancer three years ago.
Cancer widowers turn to North Carolina group
RALEIGH, N.C. — When his wife died of cancer at the age of 39, Bruce Ham wondered whether the laughter would ever return to the house he and their three daughters share. “And it is back. It took...
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Bear with head stuck in jar is rescued
JAMISON CITY, Pa. — Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at leas...
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Associated Press Laura Radocaj, husband Marco Radocaj, and their twins, Rudy (left) and Ryan, pose for a family picture in September in Vero Beach, Fla. Marco Radocaj, 28, is an example of Gen Y/Millennial fathers who are not just changing the occasional diaper but are committed to a full partnership with their wives in childrearing and running the household.
The new dads
NEW YORK — Laura Radocaj of Vero Beach, Fla., was warned when she was pregnant with twins that motherhood would be harder than she imagined — especially because she planned to go back to work while...
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NSA leak Snowden’s life surrounded by spycraft
FORT MEADE, Md. — In the suburbs edged by woods midway between Baltimore and the nation’s capital, residents long joked that the government spy shop next door was so ultra-secretive its initials st...
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Associated Press Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov speaks to the Global Future 2045 Congress on Saturday at Lincoln Center in New York. Some of humanity's best brains are gathering in New York to discuss how our minds can outlive our bodies.
Tycoon gathers futurist congress
NEW YORK — Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so. Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity’s best brains — and a few robots — in New...
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Associated Press Emmett Till is pictured in Chicago in 1955, about six months before he was killed, left. Trayvon Martin stands in an aircraft hanger in 2009, right. Six decades and myriad details separate the deaths of Till and Martin, two black teenagers felled by violence. Yet in the way America reacted to Trayvon's death - and the issues that echoed afterward -- his case has created a national racial conversation in much the same manner as the saga of Emmett, murdered in 1955 for flirting with a white woman.
In Trayvon Martin case, history’s ghosts linger
Focus on the details, and the cases seem very different. One was killed by virulent white racists, the other by a part-Hispanic neighborhood watchman who insists he faced a vicious attack. One was ...
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Associated Press/Edlib News Network Anti-Syrian regime protesters hold a banner and flash the victory sign during a demonstration Friday in Hass town, Idlib province, northern Syria. The Syrian government Friday dismissed U.S. charges that it used chemical weapons as "full of lies," accusing President Barack Obama of resorting to fabrications to justify his decision to arm Syrian rebels.
Reaction cool to US plan for rebels
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration hopes its decision to give lethal aid to Syrian rebels will prompt other nations to beef up assistance, now that the U.S. has cited evidence that the Syrian go...
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Associated Press Rebecca Diaz, who fell with the deck Thursday evening at Shuckers Bar and Restaurant in North Bay Village, Fla., and had her foot caught in the decking, looks at the scene Friday. The packed outdoor deck behind the popular Miami-area sports bar partially collapsed during the NBA Finals on Thursday night, sending dozens of patrons into the water.
Authorities probe sports bar deck collapse
NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. — Investigators began examining a twisted pile of concrete, metal and wood on Friday to determine why a waterfront deck at a popular sports bar collapsed into shallow Biscay...
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