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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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Military suicides in 2012 hit a record high of 349; more than combat deaths
WASHINGTON — Suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year, far exceeding American combat deaths in Afghanistan, and some private experts are predicting the dark trend will grow wo...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave as they walk down Pennsylvania Avenue en route to the White House from the Capitol in Washington in 2009. Started by President Jimmy Carter during his inauguration, it has become a tradition.
Presidential strut is now iconic inaugural moment
WASHINGTON — At some point on Inauguration Day, if all goes as expected, the president’s limousine will slow to a stop on its journey down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. A...
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Senate GOP leader optimistic about Afghanistan future
WASHINGTON — The United States should keep a residual force of about 10,000 in Afghanistan after combat forces leave at the end of 2014, the Senate Republican leader said Monday after a series of m...
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