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Hurricane Rachel strengthens to a Category 3 storm off Mexico's Pacific coast
Balloon crew makes history crossing Pacific
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A pair of American and Russian pilots has traveled farther and longer in a gas balloon than anyone in history, trying to eliminate any…
Ex-rap mogul 'Suge' Knight arrested in deadly hit-and-run
LOS ANGELES - Marion "Suge" Knight, the former music mogul who created one of hip-hop's leading labels and became the impresario of gangster rap, was arrested Friday on suspicion of hitting and killing a man with h…
Walker previews possible GOP run
WASHINGTON - Criticizing Washington as a city of power-hungry elites, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Friday offered a preview of his likely White House message between private job interviews with those looking to h…
Wild for burgers
NEW YORK - Wall Street went wild for burgers Friday.
Blogger helps raise $1M so NYC kids can visit Harvard
NEW YORK (AP) - A fundraising campaign inspired by the popular photo blog Humans of New York has raised more than $1 million to send middle-school students from a high-poverty Brooklyn school on field trips to Harv…
Dad of first known surviving quintuplets dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Andrew Fischer was a stock clerk earning less than $100 a week in 1963 when a doctor explained why his pregnant wife's belly had grown so large: She was about to give birth to five babies, …
Study launched on restoring salmon runs to upper Columbia
SPOKANE - Indian tribes from Washington and Idaho who live near the upper Columbia River are beginning a study of whether salmon runs can be restored above Grand Coulee Dam, which blocked those runs more than 70 ye…
McDonald's new CEO faces onslaught of competition
NEW YORK - McDonald's new boss must feel like a freshly crowned king under siege.
Yellowstone oil spills fuel Keystone line arguments
BILLINGS, Mont. - Oil pipeline accidents have become increasingly frequent in the U.S. as Congress presses the Obama administration to approve the Keystone XL pipeline - a project that would pass near the spot wher…
Most of Hawaii's coral recover from mass bleaching
HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's corals are recovering after being stressed by warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures last year.
Fugitive treasure hunter captured
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A treasure hunter accused of cheating his investors of their share of one of the richest hauls in U.S. history - $50 million in gold bars and coins from a 19th-century shipwreck - was captured at a…
Boston, buried by 2 feet of snow, bounces back from blizzard
BOSTON (AP) - Boston bounced back quickly Wednesday from the Blizzard of 2015, with subways, buses and trains up and running again the morning after the storm buried a swath of New England in 2 to 3 feet of snow.
Nobel laureate, laser co-creater dies at 99
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Charles H. Townes, the co-inventor of the laser and a Nobel laureate in physics who unapologetically spoke of his strong spiritual faith, has died. He was 99.
I'm leavin' it
NEW YORK - McDonald's CEO Don Thompson is stepping down as the world's biggest hamburger chain fights to hold onto customers and transform its image.
Group's ad featuring 911 call grabs attention at Super Bowl
No celebrities or NFL players facing the camera, saying "No more." This ad simply depicts a 911 call of a woman pretending to order a pizza while calling police with her attacker still in the house.