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(AP) A report says former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who serves as a bio-warfare adviser to the president and Pentagon, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplies it.An investigation ...
3 hours, 8 minutes ago
(AP) A police officer who was conducting a DUI stop on a vehicle in Phoenix died after another vehicle struck him and then fled the scene.Authorities said late Sunday afternoon that police in Surprise located the SUV that struck 29-year-old Officer ...
4 hours, 11 minutes ago
(AP) Sunbathers this summer will find new sunscreen labels that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use.But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, ...
4 hours, 50 minutes ago
(AP) EDMOND, Okla. — A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, Kan. There were no immediate reports of injuries ...
5 hours ago
(AP) In a commencement address at Atlanta's historically black Morehouse College, President Obama said graduates should "find time to defend the powerless."The president said his own success was due to "the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you, ...
6 hours, 12 minutes ago
(AP) Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.Sedgwick County, Kan., emergency management director Randy Duncan says officials are "very grateful" about the ...
6 hours, 48 minutes ago
(AP) With a bullet still in his body, the police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects says he's determined to return to duty.Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Officer Richard Donahue says he's getting stronger day by day ...
7 hours, 23 minutes ago
(AP) Two FBI agents have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.A spokeswoman for the FBI's Norfolk office, Vanessa Torres, said Sunday that the accident happened Friday afternoon off the Virginia Beach coast.Torres says the accident is being investigated. She ...
7 hours, 44 minutes ago
(AP) Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los ...
7 hours, 59 minutes ago
(AP) The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 11 cents over the past two weeks.The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.66. Midgrade costs an average of ...
8 hours, 31 minutes ago
(AP) BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Tens of thousands of commuters are bracing for a difficult trip around southwest Connecticut and to New York City beginning Monday as workers repair the Metro-North commuter rail line crippled by a derailment and crash. Crews will ...
8 hours, 33 minutes ago
(AP) Two commuter trains collided just outside Bridgeport, Conn., on Friday evening, damaging the tracks and snarling travel in the Northeast. Here's a look at what commuters can expect Monday, as the work week gets underway, and beyond:METRO-NORTH RAILROAD SERVICE PROBLEMS:Metro-North ...
10 hours, 37 minutes ago
(AP) Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.Same goes for soda.Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has ...
11 hours, 10 minutes ago
(AP) While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply.Supporters and opponents of public fluoridation ...
11 hours, 23 minutes ago
(AP) ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. — Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew ...
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