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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA scientists are doing their best to tell us where a plummeting six-ton satellite will fall later this week. It's just that if they'r…
Obama: Tax the rich
WASHINGTON - Drawing clear battle lines for next year's elections, a combative President Barack Obama on Monday demanded that the richest Americans pay higher taxes to help cut soaring U.S. deficits by more than $3…
Plane in Reno crash had 'radical' changes to compete
RENO, Nev. (AP) - The World War II-era plane that plummeted into an air-race crowd like a missile bore little resemblance to its original self. It was rebuilt …
GOP candidates revive private Social Security idea
WASHINGTON - Most of the top Republicans running for president are embracing plans to partially privatize Social Security, reviving a contentious issue that fi…
Death toll from Reno crash at 9
RENO, Nev. - The death toll rose to nine Saturday in an air race crash in Reno as investigators determined that several spectators were killed on impact as the…
Obama: Pass jobs bill without 'division or delay'
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is keeping up his appeal for public support of his $447 billion proposal to boost jobs and consumer spending by urging Amer…
States struggle for financing to meet road needs
LAS VEGAS - The Hoover Dam, one of the world's great engineering feats, is marred by roads with traffic so jammed along the Nevada-Arizona border that it tells…
Search for Susan Powell continues
DELTA, Utah - Authorities planned to resume searching the rugged Utah desert today as part of a nearly two-year investigation into a missing mother after three…
Duo's night out is on dead friend's ATM card
DENVER - Two men are accused of driving around Denver with a dead friend, running up a bar tab on his account and using his ATM card at a strip club in what ap…
Housing danger
U.S. violent crime drops 12 percent in 2010
Amid drought, rare minnows rescued
Three dead, 56 injured in Reno air show crash
Debt panel may begin tax code overhaul
WASHINGTON - House Speaker John Boehner urged Congress' deficit "supercommittee" on Thursday to lay the groundwork for a broad overhaul of the U.S. tax code, rejecting Democrats' talk of tax increases but leaving o…
World / Nation briefs September 15, 2011
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