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Thousands honor slain MIT officer

Thousands honor slain MIT officer


Thousands honor slain MIT officer

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 10:23 AM PDT

Police officers arrive to a memorial service for fallen Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus officer Sean Collier at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Authorities say Collier was killed by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last Thursday, April 18. He had worked for the department a little more than a year. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)VP Joe Biden tells the crowd that no child should predecease their parents.


Five murdered in Ill. town, suspect dies after shootout

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 10:29 AM PDT

5 shot to death in downstate Manchester; Suspect deadA grandmother, a young couple, and two children reportedly are among the dead.


Suspect in Canada terror plot rambles in court appearance

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 08:50 AM PDT

Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two suspects accused of plotting with al-Qaida in Iran to derail a train in Canada, arrives at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Esseghaier, 30, received "directions and guidance" from members of al-Qaida in Iran. In a brief court appearance in Montreal Tuesday, Esseghaier declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer. He made a brief statement in French in which he called the allegations against him unfair. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)"All of us know that this criminal code is not a holy book," the suspect says.


Second Miss. man investigated in ricin case

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 09:54 AM PDT

Federal authorities wear hazmat suits as they search the home of Everett Dutschke, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Tupelo, Miss., in connection with the recent ricin attacks. No charges have been filed against Dutschke and he hasn't been arrested. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Everett Dutschke says federal authorities have "ripped" through his home.


Illinois River flood waters begin to recede

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 09:42 AM PDT

Mike Branchik returns to dry land using a make shift walkway from his home as the Illinois River floods homes Tuesday, April 23, 2013, in Peoria Heights, Ill. Floodwaters are rising to record levels along the Illinois River in central Illinois. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)Residents have watched helplessly as the river reached a 70-year high.


Bird flu case reported in Taiwan; first case outside China

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 03:30 AM PDT

An airport staff member wearing a mask takes a passenger's temperature at Taoyuan International Airport, northern TaiwanA 53-year-old Taiwan businessman contracts the illness while traveling.


Inside the Time 100: Biden toasts Boston, Fallon roasts VP

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 07:54 AM PDT

Stars Gather for Time 100 GalaThe event kicked off with a cocktail party with Rand Paul, Jimmy Fallon, Lena Dunham and Brian Cranston.


The George W. Bush library's version of history

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 05:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 5, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the George W. Bush Presidential Center is seen, in Dallas. Former first lady Laura Bush wanted to make sure that the George W. Bush Presidential Center reflected her and her husband's Texas roots. And it does, right down to the foundation that includes limestone from the Midland area where they grew up and lived when they were first married. The about 226,000-square-foot center, home to the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum along with the 43rd president's policy institute, will be dedicated Thursday, April 25, 2013, on the campus of Southern Methodist University, which is not far from the Bushes' Dallas home and is also where Laura Bush earned her bachelor's degree in education. The library opens to the public on May 1. (AP Photo/Kim Johnson Flodin)The former president wanted to take the controversies about his presidency head on.


Activists to Obama: Stop Keystone

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 04:10 AM PDT

Handout photograph shows the Keystone Oil Pipeline pictured under construction in North DakotaOne of the president's former staffers leads fight against the pipeline.


Rhode Island could become 10th state to allow same-sex marriage

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 06:48 AM PDT

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2013 photo Rhode Island Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed lowers the gavel at the rostrum in the Senate Chamber at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I. Paiva Weed said she intends to vote against gay marriage legislation in the Rhode Island Senate Wednesday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Every Republican senator in the state has pledged his or her support.


At least 87 die in Bangladesh garment factory collapse

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 09:36 AM PDT

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Rescuers using floodlights worked into the night Wednesday to attempt to free dozens of people believed trapped under an eight-story building housing garment factories that collapsed near Bangladesh's capital, killing at least 87 people.

Obama breaks promise—again—on Armenian ‘genocide’

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 09:21 AM PDT

President Barack Obama on Wednesday called the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in 1915 "one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century," but again broke a 2008 campaign promise to label the tragedy a "genocide." Doing so would have angered NATO ally Turkey. "Ninety-eight years ago, 1.5 million [...]

Biden to join thousands honoring slain Boston officer

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 07:02 AM PDT

Police keep watch near the scene where Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured last Friday, hiding in a backyard boat. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged on Monday with carrying out the bombing with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died last week in a gunbattle. Tsarnaev could get the death penalty. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)The service at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology honors Sean Collier, 26.


Justice says Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched'

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 06:36 AM PDT

Justice says Armstrong was 'unjustly enriched'The federal government is going after Lance Armstrong's money. As much as it can get. The Justice Department unveiled its formal complaint against Armstrong on Tuesday, saying the cyclist violated his ...


Third recession since 2008 looms for UK

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 06:37 AM PDT

In this photo taken Friday, April 5, 2013, volunteer Margaret Tobin checks items off a list of food to give out at a food bank in St Luke's Church in the West Norwood area of London, Friday, April 5, 2013. It's possible that official figures on first quarter economic growth, to be released Thursday, could put the country back in recession. It would take the smallest statistical variation to put the figure in negative territory which would place the country in recession, another recession _ the third since the 2008 financial crisis _ and is already being referred to with foreboding in the media as a Experts warn that economic numbers could create negative media attention.


Less prison and more treatment: Drug czar to lay out reform

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 03:13 AM PDT

White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gill Kerlikowske speaks to the media about the Veteran Treatment Court at the NADCP 18th Annual Training Conference, on Thursday, May 31, 2012 in Nashville, Tenn. (Frederick Breedon / AP Images for The National Association of Drug Court Professionals)The president will include a greater emphasis on using public health tools.


More legal trouble for Pakistan's Musharraf

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 03:09 AM PDT

A supporter of Pakistan's former President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf hurls a stone towards the lawyers outside an anti-terrorism court, where Musharraf appeared in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Musharraf appeared before anti-terrorism court over the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's case, official said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani court on Wednesday rejected bail for ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case connected to the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007, a government prosecutor said.


Charges dropped in ricin letters case

Posted: 23 Apr 2013 09:42 PM PDT

Paul Kevin Curtis, right, who had been in custody under the suspicion of sending letters which tested positive for ricin to U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and his brother Jack Curtis walk to a press conference in Oxford, Miss. on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. The charges were dismissed without prejudice, which means they could be re-instated if prosecutors so choose. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman)An Elvis impersonator had been accused of targeting President Obama and others.


China's Xinjiang says 'terrorist' axe, knife and arson attack kills 21

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 04:27 AM PDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - A confrontation involving axes, knives, at least one gun and ending with the burning down of a house left 21 people dead in China's troubled far-west region of Xinjiang, a government spokeswoman said on Wednesday, calling it a "terrorist attack". It was the deadliest violence in the region since July 2009, when Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, was rocked by clashes between majority Han Chinese and minority Uighurs that killed nearly 200 people. ...

China says 21 dead in clash with 'terrorist' gang

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 12:51 AM PDT

BEIJING (AP) — A violent clash between authorities and assailants described as a terrorist gang left 21 people dead in China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, the local government said Wednesday.

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