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Nation/World
  • Va. woman has no regrets over role in burial

    DOSWELL, Va. — The Virginia woman whose actions led to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev being buried about 30 miles north of her Richmond home said the angry backlash from local officials, some cemetery neighbors and ...

    May 12, 2013

  • Fixing a hole

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious ammonia leak....

    May 12, 2013

  • IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011

    WASHINGTON — Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general’s report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public ...

    May 12, 2013

  • Still looking for answers

    WASHINGTON — Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats’ early favorite for president in 2016....

    May 12, 2013

  • Lost and found

    Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare....

    May 12, 2013

  • Immigrants may get right to vote

    NEW YORK — Hundreds of thousands of immigrants could get the right to vote in New York City elections under a proposal that would mark the biggest expansion yet of efforts to enfranchise them. The measure, aired at a City Council ...

    May 11, 2013

  • Bombing suspect buried in Virginia

    DOSWELL, Va. — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in central Virginia, infuriating some members of the area’s Islamic community who say they weren’t consulted and flooring at least one neighbor ...

    May 11, 2013

  • Bold turkey: Woman hits cop in an attempt to stop smoking

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Think you’ve heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn’t allowed. Lopez smacked Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Matt Campoy in ...

    May 11, 2013

  • U.S. home building surging

    The resurgent U.S. housing market has sent builders calling again for Richard Vap, who owns a drywall installation company. Vap would love to help — if he could hire enough qualified people....

    May 10, 2013

  • Hackers stole $45M from ATMs

    NEW YORK — A worldwide gang of criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday — and outmoded ...

    May 10, 2013