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Search ongoing for missing medical flight from Bermuda to Boston as crews plan to scour ocean floor
Suit: Logging threatens wandering wolf's den, pups
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - A conservation group is challenging a national forest timber sale because it may be too close to the den where Oregon's famous wandering wolf, OR-7, is raising pups.
Woman: Chia powder caused salmonella
DENVER (AP) - A Colorado woman has filed suit against Navitas Naturals of California, saying she contracted salmonella from the company's chia powder.
U.S. revamps fingerprinting of kid sponsors
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The federal government has resumed checking the fingerprints of people other than parents who step forward to care for migrant children detained at the border amid concern by immigrant advo…
Republicans: Obama must defend Christian values
WASHINGTON (AP) - Leading Republicans on Thursday insisted that America's leaders must do more to defend Christian values at home and abroad, blaming President Barack Obama for attacks on religious freedom.
Back to Iraq: Obama sending military advisers
WASHINGTON - Inching back into a fight he tried to leave behind, President Barack Obama announced Thursday he was dispatching 300 U.S. military advisers to Iraq to help quell the rising insurgency in the crumbling …
Don't drink and stand
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas officials are banning people from drinking from aluminum cans and glass bottles at the Fremont Street Experience, saying they want t…
Study finds blackbird decline in California
FRESNO, Calif. - A blackbird species found mostly in the Central Valley of California has experienced a major decline in its population during the past several…
GM could face another fine
DETROIT (AP) - An old email from a General Motors employee warning of a "serious safety problem" could help trigger another government fine against the automaker.
Extinction, but maybe on the comeback?
WASHINGTON - It was the moment that humanity learned we had the awesome power to erase an entire species off the face of the Earth in the scientific equivalent…
Electronic cigarette makers under fire in Senate
WASHINGTON - E-cigarettes with fruity flavors like "cherry crush" ignited an intense Senate debate Wednesday about whether manufacturers are trying to appeal to youngsters similar to the way that Big Tobacco used J…
Rates to remain low
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy still isn't healthy enough to grow at a consistently strong pace without the Federal Reserve's help.
Georgia execution first since botched injection
Phoning it in