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We've seen fire, we've seen rain in wild April
WASHINGTON - April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to sc…
'Getting our man' outweighed risks
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after deciding the risks were outweighed by the possibility "of us finally getting our man" following …
Memphis readies for big river
HICKMAN, Ky. - As Memphis readied for the mighty Mississippi to bring its furor to town, some Kentucky residents upstream returned to their homes Saturday, opt…
Bin Laden death reignites debate over CIA tactics
WASHINGTON - The government's hunt for Osama bin Laden has left the country questioning whether the tactics used to interrogate suspected terrorists were succe…
Search for missing Canadian man resumes
RENO, Nev. - Sheriff's deputies searching for the husband of a Canadian woman who survived for seven weeks on water and trail mix in their stranded van in remo…
Relief at the pump?
NEW YORK - Some relief from suffocating gas prices will likely arrive just in time for summer vacation. Expect a drop of nearly 50 cents as early as June, anal…
Wisconsin Republicans rush agenda before recalls
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP leaders have launched a push to ram several years' worth of conservative agenda items through th…
Automatic budget cuts have spotty record
WASHINGTON - Congress and President Barack Obama are proposing ways to automatically trigger budget savings if they can't rein in deficits the old-fashioned wa…
Volunteers flood tornado-tossed Tuscaloosa
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Thousands of volunteers flooded the hard-hit home of the University of Alabama with chainsaws, wrecking bars and food Saturday, offering help and hugs to tornado victims and causing traffic …
Businesses hiring at fastest pace since 2006
WASHINGTON - American companies are on a hiring spree.
First American in space honored
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Fifty years to the moment Alan Shepard rocketed away, more than 100 Project Mercury workers joined former astronauts and NASA leaders at…
Obama: We never forget, we mean what we say
NEW YORK - Solemnly honoring victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, President Barack Obama hugged survivors, thanked the heroes of one of the nation's darkest…
When a terrorist dies, is it OK to gloat?
NEW YORK - When Hyojin Jenny Hwang wrote on Facebook that she was saddened by the sight of young Americans like herself jubilantly cheering Osama bin Laden's d…
Americans 45 and older are new voting majority
WASHINGTON - For the first time, Americans 45 and older make up a majority of the voting-age population, giving older Americans wider influence in elections as the U.S. stands divided over curtailing Medicare and o…
Feds remove protection for gray wolves
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Obama administration on Wednesday moved to lift Endangered Species Act protections for 5,500 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, drawing the line on the predators' rapid …