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Boy Scout leaders to vote on lifting gay ban

As protesters made one last stand, the Boy Scouts of America's leadership began a conference Wednesday that was expected to culminate in a long-anticipated vote on whether to allow openly gay Scouts - a decision that,... More>>

Broke no laws, IRS official says _ then takes 5th

At the center of a political storm, an Internal Revenue Service supervisor whose agents targeted conservative groups swore Wednesday she did nothing wrong, broke no laws and never lied to Congress. Then she refused to answer... More>>

Union power at issue as Garcetti elected LA mayor

The incoming mayor of Los Angeles was able to defeat a fellow Democrat by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide... More>>

Okla. tornado damage: Thousands of homes, $1.5-$2B

The tornado that struck an Oklahoma City suburb this week may have created $2 billion or more in damage as it tore through as many as 13,000 homes, multiple schools and a hospital, officials said Wednesday as they gave the... More>>

Cleanup continues in tornado-ravaged Moore, Oklahoma Video included

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Cleanup is underway in the tornado-ravaged town of Moore, Oklahoma. Neighbors are helping each other, and volunteers from out of state are also pitching in. 15 year old Dalton Duffield wrestling team More>>

IRS official at center of probe pleads the 5th Video included

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The IRS official who first apologized for her agency targeting conservative groups isn't answering questions about it. Lois Lerner was called to testify before Congress today, but her lawyer advised her More>>

Friend of Boston Marathon suspect killed after lunging at FBI agent with knife Video included

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A friend of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was killed this morning in Orlando. Authorities say the Chechen immigrant was gunned down in his home when a meeting with the FBI and Massachusetts More>>

GOP questions IRS scrutiny of anti-abortion groups

When a small anti-abortion group in Iowa sought nonprofit status, the Internal Revenue Service asked its board to promise not to organize protests outside Planned Parenthood and demanded to know how its prayer meetings and... More>>

Conn. rail service returns to normal

Regular train service returned to Connecticut on Wednesday, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks. More>>

600 police photos of Tucson rampage scene released

In the chaotic moments after a gunman wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, investigators quickly turned a patrol car into a makeshift whiteboard, using markers to scrawl relevant information about the investigation. More>>

Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete Video included

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives,... More>>

Area Red Cross workers already in Oklahoma

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When Mother Nature hits, disasters can follow. The American Red Cross are just some of the people to help pick up the pieces. Just a day after the deadly tornado in Oklahoma, local Red More>>

More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows Video included

By The Associated Press A deadly tornado hit suburban Oklahoma City on Monday. A quick look at some basic facts: More>>

Rescue efforts continue in Oklahoma City suburbs after devastating monster tornado Video included

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President Obama declared a major disaster in Oklahoma, and instructed his disaster response team to get tornado victims everything they need "right away." More>>

Medical examiner: 24 dead in Oklahoma twister Video included

The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children. More>>

More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's... More>>

Penn urges US to pressure Bolivia to free US man

Actor Sean Penn on Monday urged the U.S. government to pressure Bolivia to free an American businessman detained without charge since 2011 in a case that has drawn accusations he was the victim of corrupt local prosecutors. More>>

Conn. lawmakers to seek hearings on derailment

Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut's shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation's... More>>

NYPD stop-and-frisk trial ends; race an issue

A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to... More>>

Oklahoma twister tracked path of 1999 tornado Video included

Monday's powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999. More>>

Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless Video included

Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, belie what had been a... More>>

Questions linger in shooting of NY college student

As a grieving family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer's bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether police should have waited for... More>>

Supreme Court to rule on prayer at public meetings Video included

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The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether public meetings can be opened with prayer. More>>

United restarts 787 flights after grounding

By JOSHUA FREED AP Airlines Writer United Airlines put its 787 back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them. More>>

Small Fla. city anxious to learn jackpot winner

It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million. More>>

Deadly tornado outbreak slams Plains, Midwest

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Oklahoma is preparing for more severe weather today, as it begins to recover from athe deadly wave of tornados that slammed the state yesterday. A second death was confirmed today. More>>

Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead Video included

Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open. More>>

Officer who shot NY student faced harrowing choice

The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision in law enforcement: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high... More>>

AP PHOTOS: College commencements across nation

By The Associated Press In a commencement address at Atlanta's historically black Morehouse College, President Obama said graduates should "find time to defend the powerless." More>>

Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week

Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Sunday. More>>

Official: Va. driver likely had medical condition

Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday. More>>

Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. More>>

Obama agenda marches on despite controversies

Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and... More>>

A look at why the Benghazi issue keeps coming back

The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute. More>>

1 of 2 fires north of LA contained

One of two wildfires burning in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was fully contained Saturday and authorities were getting an upper hand on the second one. More>>

Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash

The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is... More>>

Pa. coffee run leads to hatchet hitchhiker arrest

Two cups of coffee ended life on the run for an Internet sensation known as Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker. More>>

  • War on Terror

  • The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation.
    A Chechen immigrant was shot to death by authorities in central Florida early Wednesday after he turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, officials said.
  • One person has died and at least two people were wounded in a violent attack near a military training barracks in London, British officials said Wednesday, as Prime Minister David Cameron called an emergency meeting...
    Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat...
  • The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve...
    The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major...
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