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Northeast commuters struggle with icy roads
HARTFORD, Conn. — The workweek opened with a white-knuckle ride Monday in the snow-clobbered Northeast as drivers encountered unplowed streets, two-lane roads reduced to a single channel and snowba...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama bestows the Medal of Honor on retired Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha Monday in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Romesha's leadership during a daylong attack by hundreds of fighters on Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan led to award.
Army vet receives Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON — A veteran who helped “defend the indefensible” at a vulnerable Army outpost in Afghanistan received the nation’s highest award for military valor Monday at a tearful White House ceremo...
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Post-vote, Rubio on rise within GOP
WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio is taking center stage as Republicans search for a new leader. In the nearly 100 days since President Barack Obama won a second term, the Florida senator has made calcul...
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Associated Press Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (left) talks about the $1 million reward for accused killer and fired Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner as Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck (center) and Irvine, Calif., Mayor Steven Choi look on during a new conference at the Los Angeles police department Sunday.
Search for fugitive sets region on edge
IRVINE, Calif. — Police protective units zeroed in this quiet Southern California suburb Sunday, as residents adjusted to life in the midst of a sprawling manhunt for a fugitive whose police and mi...
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Associated Press Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. (right), welcomes CIA director nominee John Brennan on Capitol Hill on Thursday in Washington. Lawmakers are considering whether Congress can set up a court to decide when drones can kill U.S. citizens overseas, much like the secret courts that now grant permission for surveillance.
Lawmakers urge oversight of program
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s use of unmanned drones to kill Americans who are suspected of being al-Qaida allies deserves closer inspection, lawmakers said Sunday as even some of the presi...
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From a security tower above the Mardi Gras crowds, NOPD officers watch the 400 and 500 blocks of Bourbon Street after four people were shot around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/The Times-Picayune, Naomi Martin)
Hospital releases 3 shooting victims
NEW ORLEANS — Gunshots erupted in a crowd of bead-wearing, drink-carrying late-night revelers on Bourbon Street during the countdown to Mardi Gras, wounding four people and sending bystanders runni...
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In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2013 photo, President of the Independent Firearm Owners Association Richard Feldman, center, speaks to students on the Emerson College campus in Boston. Feldman said he endorsed some broadening of background checks, but rejected any ban on weapons or caps on the size of ammunition magazines. "Quite frankly, any gun that goes on the ban list goes on Richie Feldman's buy list," he said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Boston campus searches for answers to gun violence
BOSTON — On a Friday afternoon in December, Lee Pelton was driving home with his 13-year-old daughter in the passenger seat when radio reports of the Newtown school massacre forced him over to side...
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Crews working to clear snow from New York expressway
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — The harrowing images from New York’s slice of the massive snowstorm — people stranded overnight, cars abandoned on long stretches of drift-covered highways — were slowly erased Su...
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2 in custody in connection to Chicago teen’s death
CHICAGO — Two men were taken into custody Sunday as “persons of interest” in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Chicago girl, a Chicago police spokeswoman said. Chicago Police Department spokes...
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Lawmaker: Cyberattacks getting worse
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is vulnerable to cyberattacks that could shut down financial services or destroy information that companies need for daily operations, the chairman of the House Intelligence C...
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