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Hitting the campaign trail

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 11:59 pm

New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner poses for a photo with straphangers as he rides the subway to a radio appearance on the first day of his campaign Thursday in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting...

Boy Scouts vote to accept gay kids but not adults

 May 24, 2013; Updated: 11:55 pm

Grapevine, Texas - The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members...

• House approves student-loan bill
• I-5 bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on'
• New England AGs petition NRC about improving nuclear waste rules
• House subcommittee rejects any notion of BRAC in budget
• Obama defends drone strikes but says no cure-all
• Picking up the pieces
• Man linked to Boston bomb suspects is killed

 

World News

2 more arrests in London attack investigation

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 2:52 pm

Brutal attack in London blamed on radical Islam

 May 23, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

London - Two men with butcher knives hacked another to death Wednesday near a London military barracks and one then went on video to explain the crime - shouting political statements, gesturing with bloodied hands and waving a meat...

• AG: 4 Americans killed since 2009 in drone strikes
• UK official: Radical Islam drives London attack
• Conscientious objector
• A cross to bear
• Papal greeting
• Buddha's birthday party
• Crisis in the bathroom: Venezuela running low on toilet paper

 

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