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Jury convicts Taliban ally in subway plot

NEW YORK | A New York man was convicted Tuesday of plotting an aborted suicide mission against New York City subways in 2009 a case that featured the first-time testimony from admitted homegrown terrorists about al Qaeda's fixation with pulling off another attack on American soil.

A jury found Adis ...

American Scene: Facebook makes it easier to become organ donor

NEW YORK — Facebook users in the United States and the United Kingdom can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign ...

2 men held, questioned in Detroit escort slayings

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
DETROIT (AP) -- Two men were held for questioning Tuesday as part of an investigation into the slayings of four Detroit women whose bodies were found in car trunks after three of them placed online escort ads, police said....
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Officer shoots, wounds teen outside Texas school

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
PASADENA, Texas (AP) -- A police officer told investigators Tuesday that he shot a 14-year-old boy suspected in the overnight break-in of a Houston-area classroom after believing the teenager was reaching for a gun....
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Obama: US emerging from 'dark cloud of war'

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is emerging from more than a decade under the "dark cloud of war," with the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ending and the war in Iraq now over....
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Obama: US emerging from 'dark cloud of war'

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is emerging from more than a decade under the "dark cloud of war," with the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ending and the war in Iraq now over....
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Obama: US emerging from 'dark cloud of war'

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is emerging from more than a decade under the "dark cloud of war," with the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ending and the war in Iraq now over....
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Obama: US emerging from 'dark cloud of war'

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. is emerging from more than a decade under the "dark cloud of war," with the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan ending and the war in Iraq now over....
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Feds examine response to Montana sexual assaults

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation into the way Missoula police, prosecutors and the University of Montana have responded to reports of sexual assault and harassment after the federal agency learned of complaints that cases were not being properly handled....
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Trial begins over 2010 Mich. stabbing spree attack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A woman held the cremated remains of her slain brother in court Tuesday as she watched jury selection in the first murder trial stemming from a series of knife attacks that shocked a Michigan city two years ago....
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Trial begins over 2010 Mich. stabbing spree attack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A woman held the cremated remains of her slain brother in court Tuesday as she watched jury selection in the first murder trial stemming from a series of knife attacks that shocked a Michigan city two years ago....
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Trial begins over 2010 Mich. stabbing spree attack

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A woman held the cremated remains of her slain brother in court Tuesday as she watched jury selection in the first murder trial stemming from a series of knife attacks that shocked a Michigan city two years ago....
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In Kabul, Obama highlights foreign policy record

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama answered political taunts with presidential muscle Tuesday, making a high-profile trip to Afghanistan as Republicans said he's overdoing the celebration of Osama bin Laden's death one year ago....
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GPS suggests racing yacht hit rocks off Mexico

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A website that tracks boats by GPS shows that an American yacht mysteriously destroyed during a Pacific Ocean race left a track landing on the rocky shore of an island off Mexico's northern coast....
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Occupy forces re-gather on May Day

OAKLAND, Calif. — Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy protesters in several cities leading demonstrations against major financial institutions.

In Oakland, stinging gas sent protesters fleeing a downtown intersection where they were demonstrating. It was unclear whether police fired the ...

Edwards' attorneys question wife of ex-aide

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The wife of a former aide to John Edwards rebuffed questions Tuesday about whether she has any incentive to lie to hurt the former presidential candidate.

"Sir, I'm here to tell the truth about my experiences, about my life," Cheri Young said in response to one ...

Hungry homeless man gets arrested intentionally

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building.

Brown, 36, spent nine months in jail before his April trial. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to another month ...

South Dakota man to plead guilty in grudge killing

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
MADISON, S.D. (AP) -- A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge, his attorney said Tuesday....
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Woman gets 2 life terms for raping infant daughter

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A judge sentenced a Missouri woman to consecutive life prison terms for sexually assaulting her infant daughter along with a California man she met online.

Attorneys for 22-year-old Tessa Vanvlerah of Ballwin failed to persuade St. Louis County Circuit Judge Colleen Dolan to sentence their client ...

FBI: 5 men charged in Ohio bridge bomb plot

AP - U.S. News - Sat, 2025-06-07 12:08
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Five men described by federal authorities as anarchists angry with corporate America and the government were charged Tuesday with plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge linking two wealthy Cleveland suburbs....
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