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NSA: Dozens of plots foiled

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Washington - The U.S. government's sweeping surveillance programs have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the United States and abroad, including a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, senior government officials testified...

Ex-Bulger cohort tells court he's not a serial killer

 June 19, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Boston - A former enforcer for James "Whitey" Bulger who admitted killing 20 people insisted Tuesday that he is not a hit man or a serial killer, but instead is a "nice guy" who was only trying to help his family and friends when he pumped...

Surveying the destruction in Colorado

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:09 pm

ATF agents look over a burned-out home Monday north of Colorado Springs, Colo. More than 470 homes burned in the Black Forest wildfire that started last Tuesday. Investigators believe the fire was human-caused, and are going through the charred...

Military plans would put women in most combat jobs

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

Washington - Women may be able to start training as Army Rangers by mid-2015 and as Navy SEALs a year later under plans set to be announced by the Pentagon that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in...

Report: Slowdown in health care costs to continue

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 6:53 am

There's good news for most companies that provide health benefits for their employees: America's slowdown in medical costs may be turning into a trend, rather than a mere pause.

Snowden says he can't get a fair trial in U.S.

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:56 pm

Edward Snowden, who acknowledged leaking top-secret documents about extensive U.S. surveillance of telephone calls and Internet communications, claimed in an unusual live webchat Monday that he sees no possibility of a fair trial in the United...

Ex-hitman: I was heartbroken Bulger was an informant

 June 18, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

Boston - An ex-gangster who admitted killing 20 people was unemotional Monday when describing his line of work at the trial of his former partner, James "Whitey" Bulger, but called himself heartbroken when he learned that Bulger had become...

MISS CONNECTICUT WINS MISS USA CONTEST

 June 17, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Las Vegas - A 25-year-old contestant from Connecticut won the title of Miss USA in Las Vegas on Sunday night.

Erin Brady, from East Hampton, won the beauty pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino after strutting in a white...

Colorado copes with wildfires

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

Intelligence officials say NSA data programs thwarted plots in 20 countries

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 11:29 pm

Washington - Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and...

Funeral for former Massachusetts governor

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 11:59 pm

Jan Cellucci, top, third from right, widow of former Massachusetts governor and former U.S. ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci, follows behind the casket of her husband after his funeral Friday at St. Michael Roman Catholic Church in Hudson, Mass.

Credit monitoring sought for vets after computer-hacking

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Washington - A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the Veterans Affairs Department on Friday to offer credit monitoring to veterans and dependents whose personal information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers, might have...

Defense bill tough on sexual assault

 June 15, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Washington - The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found guilty of rape or sexual assault as outrage over the crisis in the military...

Louisiana petrochemical plant blast kills 1, injures more than 70

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:54 pm

At least one person was killed and 77 injured Thursday in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in the Louisiana town of Geismar, part of a heavily industrial region known as "Cancer Alley." "This has been a tragic incident," Republican...

Lawmakers: Terrorists change tactics after leaks

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Washington (AP) - Two senior Republican lawmakers said Thursday that terrorists are already changing their behavior after leaks about classified U.S. data gathering programs, but they offered no details.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.,...

Obama wants ban on workplace bias against gays

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 6:30 pm

President Barack Obama on Thursday marked Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month by calling on Congress to pass legislation banning workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians and others. “I want to sign that bill,” he...

Grocers allege potato group pumped up spud prices

 June 14, 2013; Updated: 9:32 am

A battle between grocers and potato growers has been silently hitting shoppers' pocketbooks, according to a U.S. wholesaler accusing America's spud farmers of driving up prices while spying on farmers with satellites and aircraft fly-overs to...

Candid camera

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 11:38 pm

Sean and Natalie Guthrie of Boston, right, take photos of their 11-year-old daughter Leilani Guthrie posing with President Barack Obama as Obama and Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Ed Markey, center, watch during a campaign stop...

NSA head: With leak, U.S. less safe place

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 11:48 pm

Washington - The director of the National Security Agency vigorously defended once-secret surveillance programs as an effective tool in keeping America safe, telling Congress on Wednesday that the information collected disrupted dozens of...

Inspector in Philly collapse commits suicide

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 8:25 am

An official says an inspector who surveyed a Philadelphia building before it collapsed last week, killing six people, has committed suicide.

For white Americans, more deaths than births

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

More white people died in the U.S. last year than were born, a surprising slump coming more than a decade before the census predicts that the ranks of white Americans will drop with every passing year.

Population estimates for 2012 released...

Feds: Bulger a 'hands-on killer'

 June 13, 2013; Updated: 10:50 pm

Boston - Reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was a "hands-on killer" responsible for "murder and mayhem" in Boston for almost 30 years, a federal prosecutor told a jury Wednesday as Bulger's highly anticipated racketeering trial...

Senate starts immigration debate

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 11:16 pm

Washington - With an overwhelming vote, the Senate agreed Tuesday to launch a debate on an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, as President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass legislation "that is the best chance we've had in...

VIDEO: Window washers rescued from New York City skyscraper scaffold

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 7:09 pm

Two window washers left dangling from a collapsed scaffold near the top of a New York City skyscraper have been rescued.

Fish and Wildlife proposes protecting chimpanzees in captivity and in wild

 June 12, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Washington - Like a pair of new sneakers, they can be bought and sold online for personal use. They can be leased to medical labs, where they can be poked, prodded and injected for a range of medical research projects.

But such...

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