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Budget woes, email end page program
WASHINGTON (AP) - After nearly 200 years, the House page program that allowed high school students to serve as messengers and learn about Congress is ending, r…
Brutal Texas drought slams ecosystems
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) - In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie w…
President pays tribute to troops
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - The fallen come home here with such dignity that every American flag on every case of remains is inspected for the tiniest smudge.…
Obama looks to reassure faith in U.S. credit
WASHINGTON (AP) - Eager to calm a nervous nation, President Barack Obama on Monday dismissed an unprecedented downgrade in the nation's credit rating, insisting investors will stand by the United States even as sto…
Former senator, war critic Hatfield dies
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Former Sen. Mark Hatfield, an outspoken critic of war whose liberal views often put him at odds with fellow Republicans, died Sunday. He was 89.
Group hacks US law enforcement sites
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The group known as Anonymous said Saturday it hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a data breach that at least one local police chief said leaked sensi…
Perry: Turn to God for nation's answers
HOUSTON - Texas Gov. Rick Perry sent a strong message to the nation's evangelicals Saturday: he is a member of the important constituency for Republicans that …
Keeping shoppers safe
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - A janitor spots an abandoned diaper bag lying on a table in the sprawling food court at the Mall of America. A bomb-sniffing dog and a sec…
Europe crisis revives '08 fears
Wild gyrations in the stock market. Big banks holding risky bonds. Fear that toxic assets will contaminate banks and freeze up credit on both sides of the Atla…
NASA explorer begins 5-year trip to Jupiter
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets.
World / Nation Briefs August 4, 2011
Mubarak denies charges as trial opens in Egypt
New theory: Earth once had two moons
WASHINGTON - In a spectacle that might have beguiled poets, lovers and songwriters if only they had been around to see it, Earth once had two moons, astronomer…
Woman says her uncle was famed hijacker
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - When an FBI agent pleaded several years ago for help finding notorious skyjacker D.B. Cooper, he wondered, off-handedly, if someone's "odd…
Lab lost key evidence in 'praying mom' case
AUBURN, Ala. - When Kay Burdette's 17-year-old son became sick with flu-like symptoms, the faithful mother chose the same prescription she has used for years: …
Yellowstone officials kill bear that charged man
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Yellowstone National Park officials trapped and killed a grizzly bear that charged toward a man and ate the food in his pack less than a month after a different grizzly killed a hiker.