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Senate panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt
In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel on Tuesday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes U.S. assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens further reductions if it fails to open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on ...
Passenger's suspicious claim diverts jet to Maine
An FBI spokesman says there's no indication that a US Airways jetliner or its passengers were in danger before the Paris-to-North Carolina flight diverted to Maine. Officials briefed on the incident say a French passenger passed a note to a flight attendant saying she had a surgically implanted device. Sen. ...
Priest: We weren't prepared for abuse complaints
A priest assigned to help with child sex-abuse complaints at the Philadelphia archdiocese in the early 1990s says he was "woefully unprepared" and left after a year. Monsignor James Beisel's (BYE'-zuhlz) testimony comes in the child-endangerment and conspiracy trial of his friend, Monsignor William Lynn. Lynn is accused of keeping ...
APNewsBreak: NKorea upgrading rocket launch site
Satellite imagery shows North Korea is upgrading its old launch site in the secretive country's northeast to handle larger rockets, like space launch vehicles and intercontinental missiles, a U.S. institute claimed Tuesday. The U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said the upgrade of the Musudan-ri site ...
Sheriff: Suspect linked by DNA to missing CA teen
A man was in custody Tuesday on suspicion of murder and kidnapping after his DNA was found in the bag of a missing girl whose abduction was believed to be a random act of violence, authorities said. In addition, the DNA of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar was found in the red ...
Serial stabbings suspect guilty of murder in Mich.
A man suspected of fatally stabbing five men and wounding nine others in and around a Michigan city two summers ago was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the first case to go to trial. Jurors rejected the insanity defense put forth for Elias Abuelazam, finding him guilty of stabbing ...
Commercial spacecraft speeds toward space station
Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies Tuesday after a spectacular, middle-of-the-night blastoff. The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule marked the first time ...
Joplin remembers deadly tornado, 1 year later
A year after a massive tornado tore through Joplin, thousands of survivors and others touched by the storm's fury made a somber march through some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods in a town dedicated to remembering its losses but also committed to what is certain to be a long, slow recovery. ...
CBO warns of US falling off 'fiscal cliff'
A new government study released Tuesday says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession. The Congressional Budget Office report says that the economy would shrink by 1.3 percent in the first ...
Mich. teen shot by grandmother had drug conviction
Police were still trying to determine what prompted a 74-year-old Michigan woman to shoot her 17-year-old grandson, as dozens of his classmates and relatives gathered Tuesday for the boy's funeral Police say Jonathan Hoffman was shot at least five times with a .40-caliber handgun in the suburban Detroit condo he ...
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