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With longtime Republican Sen. Dick Lugar going down in defeat, Democrats were quick to paint the conservative candidate who beat him in Indiana's primary as "too extreme."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that President Barack Obama continues to enjoy strong support among women, minorities and independents....

Infowars.com | Panic-stricken residents were awoken at 1am to the sound of simulated gunfire and explosions.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but an appeals court says a liquor bottle with a red dripping wax seal by any name other than Maker's Mark would be illegal.

Noting that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon," ...

WPXI Pittsburgh | Fred Ricciutti was not afraid to reach for his pistol when he heard a peculiar sound inside his home at 4am.

Infowars | One reader's email unveils a startling new precedent in delivering medicines and even vaccinations.

ABC News | “This is the first published report of norovirus infection without person-to-person transfer.”

GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) — Murder charges were filed Wednesday against the fugitive suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with the woman's two younger girls.

Two first-degree murder counts against 35-year-old Adam Mayes, who has been sought for more than a week, were announced Wednesday. ...

OC Register | Video from inside the Kelly Thomas preliminary hearing. If there is sufficient evidence against them, the case will head to a trial by jury.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Far from politics, six-term Sen. Richard Lugar is considered a visionary who looked beyond U.S. exuberance over the end of the Cold War and saw the dangers and opportunities in the collapse of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union....

Alexander Higgins | Chicago will be what life in America is destined to look like in the future.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The political impact of President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage will be tested this fall in Minnesota, where opponents of a proposed gay marriage ban are hoping the president's enduring popularity here will help persuade skeptical Democrats to vote it down....

VOA News | "A roadside blast wounded six Syrian soldiers as they escorted United Nations monitors toward the restive southern town of Dara'a."

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has won most of the delegates in a three-state primary sweep, leaving him a little more than 200 delegates shy of the number needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president....

csmonitor.com | Time-honored bake sale falls under a new Massachusetts law that limits students' access to junk food before and after school.

Fox 19 | This Fox 19 Reality Check report shows "Influence peddling is alive and well."

WASHINGTON — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing federal civil charges of taking part in an influence-peddling scheme involving the city's public-employee pension funds.

The Securities and Exchange Commission says Kilpatrick and ex-city treasurer Jeffrey Beasley received $125,000 in private jet travel and other perks from an investment firm. ...

NY Times | In an effort to keep Tokyo Electric Power from collapsing, Japan will nationalize the company, and a ¥1 trillion bailout plan was approved Wednesday.

RT.com | First of its kind in the country.

A gaffe is when a politician is caught telling the truth, the old saying goes. So it was in March when a hot microphone picked up President Obama telling his Russian counterpart that he will have "more flexibility" if he wins re-election in November.