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Suspicion over 'entry point' in Tucson girl search

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Investigators found "suspicious circumstances around a possible entry point" at the home of a 6-year-old Arizona girl whose disappearance has prompted a massive search, with more than 150 law enforcement officers trying to figure out whether she was abducted, a police spokeswoman said Sunday....
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Report: US eyes sanctions on tech used vs. rebels

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will announce a plan to impose sanctions against foreign entities that help authoritative regimes use technology to crack down on dissidents, The Washington Post reported Sunday....
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Report: US eyes sanctions on tech used vs. rebels

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Monday will announce a plan to impose sanctions against foreign entities that help authoritative regimes use technology to crack down on dissidents, The Washington Post reported Sunday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Auditors call for end to Medicare bonus program

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rebuke to the Obama administration, government auditors are calling for the cancellation of an $8 billion Medicare program that congressional Republicans have criticized as a political ploy....
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After NYC boy vanished, era of anxiety was born

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
NEW YORK (AP) -- A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner....
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After NYC boy vanished, era of anxiety was born

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
NEW YORK (AP) -- A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Suspicion over 'entry point' in Tucson girl search

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Investigators found "suspicious circumstances around a possible entry point" at the home of a 6-year-old Arizona girl whose disappearance has prompted a massive search, with more than 150 law enforcement officers trying to figure out whether she was abducted, a police spokeswoman said Sunday....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Iran says it recovered data from captured US drone

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone....
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Fishing for a cleaner Anacostia River

Sirens and the sounds of highway traffic, airplanes and helicopters pierce the quiet calm of the Anacostia River, as the D.C. Fisheries boat cruises under a railroad trestle, across the District line into Maryland.

Near Dooling Creek, supervisory biologist Daniel Ryan gooses the engine to prime a water pump that ...

Heavy rain in East, and April snowflakes for some

NEW YORK (AP) | A spring nor'easter rumbled along the East Coast on Sunday and was expected to bring rain and heavy winds and even snow in some places as it strengthens into early Monday, a punctuation to a relatively dry stretch of weather for the Northeast.

The storm is ...

Clash over bill to protect women

The Senate is poised to take up this week a bill addressing domestic violence, but past bipartisan support for reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has frayed and two Republican lawmakers are preparing their own alternative measure.

Republicans say they object to the bill because it doesn't do enough ...

No new clues in search for 6-year-old Tucson girl

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- The parents of a missing 6-year-old Arizona girl asked their parish priest for prayers Sunday as volunteers passed out fliers across Tucson and more than 150 law enforcement officers tried to figure out whether she had been abducted....
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Thousands of computer users might lose Internet

For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, ...

Fla. woman going on trial in 2009 Novack killings

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Sneaky breast implants. Naked amputees. The Batmobile....
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Fla. woman going on trial in 2009 Novack killings

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Sneaky breast implants. Naked amputees. The Batmobile....
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WILLIAMS: 'We the People' at stake in health care decision

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

If the Supreme Court declares the individual mandate in Obamacare unconstitutional, can it sever the mandate from the remainder of the bill? If it can't, the entire legislation is null and void, and Congress must start again from scratch.

If the mandate is severed, an incredible health care nightmare ...

American Scene: Iowa paper devotes front page to fight bullying

IOWA

SIOUX CITY — An Iowa newspaper devoted the entire front page of its Sunday edition to an anti-bullying editorial after a teen in its community committed suicide.

The move by the Sioux City Journal is highly unusual. Editor Mitch Pugh says the newspaper has run front-page editorials before but ...

Missing boy spurred era of anxiety

NEW YORK — A generation of sheltered American children grew up in the shadow of anxiety that fell over this country one day in 1979, when a little boy with a charming grin vanished from a Manhattan street corner.

They never knew his name or saw that angelic-looking face. But ...

Iran says it recovered data from captured US drone

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Explosion, fireball reported in Nevada, California

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-27 17:11
RENO, Nev. (AP) -- A loud explosion heard across much of Nevada and California on Sunday morning rattled homes and prompted a flood of calls to law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Sierra Nevada, some reporting fireball sightings....
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