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Etan Patz: N.Y. police holding person in 1979 missing-child case

Etan Patz: N.Y. police holding person in 1979 missing-child case

New York police on Thursday had someone in custody in connection with one of the city's and country's most gripping missing-child cases: that of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who vanished off a...  more...

Secret Service director says Colombia prostitution scandal was isolated incident

Secret Service director says Colombia prostitution scandal was isolated incident

WASHINGTON — The prostitution scandal that has embroiled the Secret Service is not evidence of a wider culture of boozing and paying for sex among those who are trained to take a bullet for the president, the director of the agency told skeptical senators.  more...

Officials helped makers of Osama bin Laden film, documents show

Officials helped makers of Osama bin Laden film, documents show

WASHINGTON — In the months after the U.S. militarymission that killed Osama bin Laden, Pentagon officials met with Hollywood filmmakers and gave them special access in an effort to influence the creation of a film about the operation, newly released documents show.  more...

Obama rebuts GOP charges on U.S. influence

Obama rebuts GOP charges on U.S. influence

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — President Obama pushed back against the idea of U.S. influence being in decline — and against Republican criticism of his stewardship — telling the Air Force Academy's graduating class that around the world "there's a new confidence in our leadership."  more...

Romney makes his case on education

Romney makes his case on education

WASHINGTON — Targeting an issue popular with women, a key voter group, Mitt Romney assailed President Obama's leadership on education Wednesday and blamed teachers unions for problems facing American schools.  more...

Still no verdict in John Edwards trial

GREENSBORO, N.C. — For a fourth day Wednesday, the jury in the John Edwards trial deliberated without reaching a verdict in a case focused on an illicit affair and federal campaign finance laws.  more...

H.H. Brookins dies at 86; pastor was influential black leader

H.H. Brookins dies at 86; pastor was influential black leader

The Rev. Hamel Hartford Brookins, an influential bishop and former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles who became a political power broker, civil rights leader and mentor to former Mayor Tom Bradley, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and many others, has died. He was 86.  more...

CIA discloses names of 15 killed in line of duty

WASHINGTON — The CIA on Tuesday disclosed the names of 15 of its operatives killed in the line of duty over the last 30 years, the result of a new effort to honor fallen officers whose sacrifices had long gone unrecognized by all but a few.  more...

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Colorado is latest to reconsider zero-tolerance school policies

AURORA, Colo. — On May 2, D'Avonte Meadows, a 6-year-old with an infectious grin and rambunctious streak, was suspended for three days from Sable Elementary in suburban Denver for crooning "[I'...

John Edwards jury requests more exhibits

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A third day of jury deliberations in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards passed without a verdict Tuesday, with the jurors due back in...

Paul Ryan coy on whether he'd join the GOP ticket

It is a ritual of the vice presidential audition: A contender for the role of running mate tries to profess just enough interest, but not too much.

'Stroller Brigade' rolls out for Safe Chemicals Act

WASHINGTON — Moms, a few dads and some children gathered at the Capitol on Tuesday to urge Congress to strengthen the federal government's powers to regulate harmful chemicals.

Ann Romney and dressage: A pricey private world

It was the end of a long day in a stuffy Simi Valley office building. Ann Romney had been under oath for more than four hours, testifying in a sometimes contentious deposition about a pricey horse she...

30-day sentence fuels debate in Rutgers anti-gay bias case

NEW YORK — Dharun Ravi had appeared stoic for three hours, but he broke down in tears as his mother sobbed beside him while pleading with the judge to spare her son from prison.

PSA test for prostate cancer should be dropped, task force says

The PSA test should be abandoned as a prostate cancer screening tool, a government advisory panel has concluded after determining that the side effects from needless biopsies and treatments hurt...

Man survives plunge over Niagara Falls

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — A man survived a plunge of at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt Monday — only the third person known to have lived after going over the...

Supreme Court rejects widow's claim in Social Security case

WASHINGTON — A widow who conceived a baby from the sperm of her late husband is not automatically entitled to Social Security survivors benefits to help raise the child, the Supreme Court...

John Edwards waits as jury continues deliberations

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A federal jury in the political corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards deliberated for a second day Monday without reaching a verdict, as Edwards...

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