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Cable cars: Accident waiting to happen

Francisco pays heavy price to have old-school attraction

April 13, 2013

Obama’s budget plan limits bargaining power

Copies of President Barack Obama’s budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery. The proposal includes entitlement cuts…

April 13, 2013

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Medicare rise could ding some middle-class people

Pugach doesnt see herself as upper-income by any stretch, but President Barack Obamas budget would raise her Medicare premiums and…

April 13, 2013

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Could global warming cause change in tornado season, too?

These unpredictable, sometimes deadly storms plague the United States more than any other country. Here in tornado alley, Oklahoma City…

April 13, 2013

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190M-year-old dino bones shed light on development

The 190-million-year-old fossils unearthed in China belonged to Lufengosaurus, a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur known for its gigantic size, with adults…

April 13, 2013

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N. Korea issue unites U.S., China

2 world powers agree to rid the country of its nukes program

April 13, 2013

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Police grapple with cybercrime

Confiscated computers and child-oriented pornographic tapes fill the storeroom shelves in the Florida Attorney General’s Child Predator CyberCrime Unit office…

April 13, 2013

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Cartel racehorse case goes to trial

But with the millions of dollars spent sometimes in the form of duffel bags stuffed with cash on…

April 13, 2013

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Texas rethinking testing, curriculum standards

Socar Chatmon-Thomas, center, a Realtor in Austin, Texas, has joined a group of mothers worried that testing and curriculum standards…

April 13, 2013

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Soviet Mars craft may be found

Photos taken by NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circling the red planet pointed to what may be the Mars 3 lander…

April 13, 2013

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South African creature shows evolution in action

Ancestor mixed human and apelike traits

April 13, 2013

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Rise of anti-Thatcher tune challenges BBC

By Friday, the online campaign had propelled the Wizard of Oz song to No. 1 on British iTunes and into…

April 12, 2013

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Auction of Hopi masks decried

sale includes dozens of artifacts with religious significance

April 12, 2013

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U.S. says North Korea’s nuclear firepower limited

Likelihood of missile launch is strong, defense official says

April 12, 2013

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Bipartisan bill would ease state-federal marijuana conflict

California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said his bill, which has three Republican and three Democratic sponsors, would ensure that state…

April 12, 2013

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Kerry to North Korea: Don’t test missile

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and South Korea Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se share a few words while waiting…

April 12, 2013

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Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies

Jonathan Winters, who inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, died Thursday at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural…

April 12, 2013

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U.S. intelligence: N. Korea may have nuclear warhead

President Barack Obama listens as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discusses North Korea’s escalating rhetoric about a missile launch. Obama says…

April 11, 2013

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Global warming not cause of U.S. drought, study says

Scientists say the lack of moisture usually pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico was the main reason for the…

April 11, 2013

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg launches political group

Zuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us (pronounced forward us) in an op-ed article in The Washington Post late Wednesday. In…

April 11, 2013

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Senate group wraps up work on immigration bill

After months of arduous closed-door negotiations, the Gang of Eight senators, equally divided between the two parties, had no issues…

April 11, 2013

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N. Korea hints it will soon launch a missile

U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets prepare to take off from a runway during their military exercise at the Osan…

April 11, 2013

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Gun-control bill clears first hurdle in Senate

With the Capitol in the background, an unidentified man walks past thousands of grave markers erected in a mock cemetery…

April 11, 2013

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Maine hermit, living in wild for 27 years, arrested

Christopher Knight, 47, was arrested last week when he tripped a surveillance sensor set up by a game warden while…

April 10, 2013