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Missouri deaths of 3 hikers underscores need for precaution
ST. LOUIS — Whether it was the bone-chilling rain or the pitch-black darkness while lost in a forest, circumstances that doomed an Air Force veteran and two young sons on a Missouri hike illustrate...
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Boehner: GOP will pass ‘responsible’ debt bill
WASHINGTON — Speaker John Boehner says the GOP-controlled House will “do its job” and pass legislation to lift the nation’s borrowing cap and keep the government running, but will insist that Democ...
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Obama: Debt limit fight imperils elderly’s checks
WASHINGTON — Declaring “we are not a deadbeat nation,” President Obama warned on Monday that Social Security checks and veterans’ benefits will be delayed if congressional Republicans fail to incre...
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Suspect in subway shove death found fit to stand trial
NEW YORK — A New York City woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train because she believed he was Muslim has been found fit to stand trial. Erika Menendez was charged...
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Associated Press Former president George H.W. Bush pauses for a photo before football game in Houston between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Texans in November. A spokesman said Monday that Bush has left the hospital where he spent nearly two months recovering from an illness.
Hospital releases Bush after nearly two months admission
HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush was released from a Houston hospital and went home Monday after spending nearly two months being treated for a bronchitis-related cough and other health ...
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Associated Press Jimmy Greene (left) and Nelba Marquez-Greene (center), parents of Sandy Hook School shooting victim Ana Marquez-Greene, and Nicole Hockley (right), mother of victim Dylan Hockley, react during a news conference Monday at Edmond Town Hall in Newtown, Conn. One month after the mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the parents joined a grassroots initiative called Sandy Hook Promise to support solutions for a safer community.
Sandy Hook Promise group launches anti-violence initiative
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Parents of children slain in the Connecticut school massacre held photos of their sons and daughters, cried, hugged and spoke in quavering voices as they called for a national dial...
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Conservatives chip away at $50 billion Sandy aid package
WASHINGTON — House conservatives opposed to more deficit spending tried Monday to chip away at the $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package by requiring offsetting spending cuts to pay for recove...
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Boy convicted of killing supremacist father
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A boy who was only 10 when he fatally shot his white supremacist father was convicted Monday of second-degree murder by a judge who said the child knew what he did was wrong. ...
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Obama backs gun limits, concedes hard fight ahead
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama endorsed controversial bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines on Monday, as well as stricter background checks for gun buyers — but conce...
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Board weighs firing South Carolina teacher who stomped on flag
CHAPIN, S.C. — A South Carolina high school teacher who talked glowingly about the U.S. and the importance of embracing freedom while stomping on an American flag in his classroom is still deciding...
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