Feds: Dead marathon suspect tied to 2011 killings
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was named as a participant in an earlier triple homicide.Read More ...
White House official fired over anonymous tweets
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Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior White
House official who was helping negotiate nuclear issues with Iran has
been fired after being unmasked as the acidic voice behind a Twitter
account known for its insults of public figures at the White House and
on Capitol Hill, a government official said on Tuesday. Jofi Joseph was
director of nuclear non-proliferation on the White House National
Security Council staff, but for more than two years sent hundreds of
anonymous and abrasive tweets using the handle @NatSecWonk. ...Read More ...
Rain still a threat as Hurricane Raymond weakens off Mexico
ACAPULCO,
Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Raymond weakened to barely a Category 1 storm
Tuesday while still stalled off Mexico's Pacific coast, pumping rain
onto an already sodden region recovering from a battering by a tropical
storm last month.Read More ...
College prices appear to be moderating
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's some good news on college tuition. Yes, the cost has gone up — but not as much in the past.
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Nevada boy says he came face-to-face with shooter
SPARKS,
Nev. (AP) — Thirteen-year-old Angelo Ferro was at the Sparks Middle
School playground with friends Monday when he heard a pop about 15
minutes before the morning bell rang. He said he didn't think much of it
— it could've been someone popping a plastic bag.Read More ...
Trial to examine if Detroit eligible in bankruptcy
DETROIT
(AP) — The city of Detroit for months has disclosed the awful condition
of its finances. Now it's up to a judge to determine if the largest
public bankruptcy in U.S. history really can go forward.Read More ...
Transit labor clash resolved after deadly accident
OAKLAND,
Calif. (AP) — It took months of tortured talks, two strikes and the
deaths of two workers for San Francisco's transit rail workers and their
employer to finally agree on a contract that got trains running again
Tuesday.Read More ...
Cardinals, Red Sox set to renew October rivalry
BOSTON
(AP) — Lance Lynn squeezed through a door leading into the Green
Monster, shimmied along a cramped space behind the famed left-field wall
and peered out a tiny metal slot in the Fenway Park scoreboard.Read More ...
Apple gears up for holidays with new Macs, iPads
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Inc. is refreshing its iPad lineup in hopes of
reclaiming lost ground in the tablet market and slashing the prices of
its Mac computers to intensify the pressure on the beleaguered makers of
PCs running Microsoft's Windows.Read More ...
Detroit faces crucial trial in bankruptcy case
DETROIT
(AP) — Thousands of Detroit streetlights are dark. Many more residents
have fled. Donors are replacing ambulances that limped around for
200,000 miles. Millions in debt payments have been skipped.Read More ...
Boy describes terror of Nevada schoolyard shooting
SPARKS,
Nev. (AP) — Students cowered in fear and pleaded for their lives as a
12-year-old Nevada boy went on a schoolyard rampage with a handgun he
brought from home, waving the weapon at frightened classmates and
shooting a math teacher in the chest on a basketball court.Read More ...
Libya: Militias, politicians meld in explosive mix
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Iraq vet's family considering gravestone options
CINCINNATI
(AP) — The family of a slain Iraqi war veteran wants her towering
SpongeBob SquarePants headstone returned to her final resting place
while the cemetery officials that removed it say that's the only thing
they won't do, leaving both sides at an apparent impasse that may have
to be decided in court.Read More ...
A new idea for space tourism: Balloon over rocket
WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest space tourism venture depends more on hot air than rocket science.Read More ...
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