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California fuels $550 million jackpot
SAN DIEGO — The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it became the newest in the nation to join the madness over Powerball, which saw its jackpot soar Thursday to $5...
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Texas tornado devastation includes Habitat homes
GRANBURY, Texas — Habitat for Humanity spent years in a North Texas subdivision, helping build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area. But its work was largely undone during an outbreak of 13...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey (right) and senior enlisted advisers to discuss sexual assault in the military on Thursday in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.
Obama vows sustained effort on military abuse
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Thursday the nation’s military leaders told him they are “ashamed” of their failure to end sexual abuse in the armed services. Obama pledged to “leave no st...
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Mailbox bomb suspect to face competency hearing
IOWA CITY, Iowa — More than a decade after a string of mailbox bombings injured people in Midwestern states, a judge will reconsider whether the former college student accused of carrying out the t...
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Associated Press Attorney General Eric Holder reacts to aggressive questioning from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday as the House Judiciary Committee focused on oversight of the Justice Department. Lawmakers pressed for answers about the unwarranted targeting of tea party and other conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department's secret seizure of telephone records at The Associated Press.
GOP, Dems challenge Holder over subpoenas
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation of national security leaks and ...
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Associated Press Juror Joseph Carroll speaks to members of the media outside the criminal justice center Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Jurors: Doctor got greedy, lost his way
PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Kermit Gosnell proved a serene but solitary figure in the courtroom during his long murder trial, in contrast to the chaotic life he built as an inner-city doctor, abortion provi...
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Associated Press Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a joint news conference April 29 at the Pentagon. A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties.
Sexual abuse cases put Pentagon under fire
WASHINGTON — One after another, the charges have tumbled out — allegations of sexual assaults in the military that have triggered outrage, from local commanders to Capitol Hill and the Oval Office....
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IRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting
WASHINGTON — Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an outcry over revelations that the a...
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Associated Press The U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul leaves Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on Wednesday. McFaul has been summoned by the Russian foreign ministry in connection with an alleged spy detention in Moscow.
Russia says alleged spying case was 2nd this year
MOSCOW — A Russian security services operative — his features bathed in shadows — went on state television Wednesday to claim that the U.S. diplomat who was ordered out of the country was the secon...
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A timeline of the IRS’s scrutiny of the right
2010 March-April: IRS agents begin giving extra attention to tax-exempt applications from groups associated with the tea party or with a political sounding agenda in their names, such as “Patrio...
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