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Newtown panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 12:26pm
Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the Sandy Hook Elementary School property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win.

Woman found alive in Bangladesh rubble recovering

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
A woman found alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago is recovering in a hospital, but has trouble sleeping and sometimes grips the nurses' hands in panic, doctors said Saturday.

Bloomberg bars reporters from client log-in data

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
Financial data and news company Bloomberg LP said Friday that it had corrected a "mistake" in its newsgathering policies and cut off its journalists' special access to client log-in data on the company's ubiquitous trading information terminals after Goldman Sachs complained about the matter last month.

Spacewalking astronauts hunt for big station leak

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
Two astronauts are taking a hastily planned spacewalk to find and, possibly, fix a serious leak at the International Space Station.

Pakistanis go to polls as 16 killed in attacks

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But attacks that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more underlined the risks many people took just casting their ballots.

DNA test shows Ohio kidnap suspect fathered girl

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
As relatives of the Cleveland kidnapping and rape suspect recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts, DNA testing confirmed the man who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along with the women.

A look at the major issues ahead of Pakistani vote

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
National elections come at a time of widespread despair in Pakistan, as the country suffers from faltering economic growth, worsening energy shortages and continued attacks by militants.

GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
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.

IRS apologizes for targeting tea party groups

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for what it acknowledges was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

Va. woman has no regrets over role in burial

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 10:16am
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 online critics has been unpleasant, but she has no regrets.

Finding woman alive lifts Bangladesh rescuers

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 7:49am
Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago, rescuers on Saturday returned to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving decomposing bodies, knowing there was little chance of finding any more survivors.

Spacewalkers to tackle leak at space station

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 7:49am
Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday to tackle an ammonia leak in the power cooling system.

MLB suspends, fines umps after 2nd mistake

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 7:49am
Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth for two games on Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning.

DNA test shows Ohio kidnap suspect fathered girl

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 5:21am
As relatives of the Cleveland kidnapping and rape suspect recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts, DNA testing confirmed the man who allegedly held three women captive for nearly a decade is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along with the women.

Pakistanis go to polls as 10 killed in bombings

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 5:20am
Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But bombings that killed ten people and wounded dozens more underlined the risks many people took just casting their ballots.

Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 5:20am
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and his trial offered Guatemala's oppressed indigenous communities their first chance to be heard, human rights activists said.

Finding woman alive lifts Bangladesh rescuers

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 3:59am
Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago, rescuers on Saturday returned to the grim task of dismantling the wreckage and retrieving decomposing bodies, knowing there was little chance of finding any more survivors.

Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 3:59am
Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.

State Dep't sought to change Libya talking points

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 3:59am
Political considerations influenced the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used five days after the deadly Sept. 11 assault in Benghazi, Libya, with State Department and other senior administration officials asking that references to terror groups and prior warnings be deleted, according to department emails.

Greenhouse gas milestone; CO2 levels set record

Sat, 05/11/2013 - 3:59am
Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.

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