WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Ground Zero and meet with 9/11 families and first responders when he visits Thursday.The White House provided the new details on the trip in a statemen…
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Kevin Durant’s supporting cast came alive to keep the Oklahoma City Thunder out of a perilous 0-2 hole in the Western Conference semifinals.Durant scored 26 points, James Harden led an outburst by Oklahoma City’s bench …
MIAMI — With the outcome decided in the final seconds, LeBron James walked toward Mario Chalmers to begin his version of a celebration.He playfully punched his teammate twice in the chest.Read More…
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WASHINGTON — It’s all but impossible to glean from the political rhetoric, but government borrowing will grow by trillions of dollars over the next decade if the budget backed by House Republicans translates into law.And by a few trill…
CHICAGO — Barack Obama says he wants to be the president who restores people’s belief in the American dream.In an interview, Obama also expresses disappointment over sharp-edged Washington politics and his failure to soften it as he’d …
LOS ANGELES — Lindsay Lohan wants to enter a no contest plea to end a criminal case filed over a $2,500 necklace reported stolen, a source close to the actress said Saturday.The source, who is familiar with Lohan’s criminal case but wa…
WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin’s support among Republicans has shrunk and there’s no evidence she’s close to saying whether she will run for president in 2012.But it’s clear she wants to be part of the conversation.Read More…
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University is delaying until next fall a decision on whether it will eliminate four varsity sports programs.Brown President Ruth Simmons made the announcement Friday, saying students, faculty and alumni need mo…
BERLIN — Germany’s top security official says three suspected al-Qaida terrorists who have been arrested posed a “concrete and imminent” threat.German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich says in a statement that the arrests by “dome…
PATNA, India — Police say that a man armed with a large knife beheaded an 18-year-old woman at her school in front of her horrified classmates in eastern India.The attacker later told police he was in love with the victim but her paren…
PHILADELPHIA — In a series that went the distance, Brian Boucher did the same in Game 7.Backed by a burst of early goals, Boucher gets another round to prove he’s the goalie who can lead the Flyers to their first Stanley Cup championsh…
CULIACAN, Mexico — From age 6, each of the Gonzalez brothers learned to make bricks, trudging like nine little chicks behind their father every day before dawn to work in his dusty hilltop brickyard.Three years ago, three of them in th…
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers told each other in the huddle in the final possessions they were going back to Miami.Lou Williams proved them right, hitting a 3-pointer with 8.1 seconds left to lead the 76ers to an 86-82 win over…
WASHINGTON — With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue.No o…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For years, the man known as Rafael Espinoza was widely respected as an exemplary police officer who was popular among his peers in Alaska’s largest city.All that ended this week when authorities discovered he was re…
GYONGYOSPATA, Hungary — Police detained several members of a far-right vigilante group Friday after hundreds of frightened Roma women and children were evacuated from a village where it was planning to train.The Hungarian Red Cross too…
HARTFORD, Conn. — Something just didn’t seem right when Ilana Angel met her Internet date at a bar. He furtively looked around the room and immediately suggested they go someplace else in his car, leaving hers behind at the bar.Aware o…
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post Co. is launching a news aggregation website called Trove that allows users to create their own news sites based on Facebook interests and customized subjects.Vijay Ravindran, chief digital officer of th…
NEW YORK — Jason Chimera scored 12:36 into the second overtime and the Washington Capitals completed a stunning three-goal comeback to beat the Rangers 4-3 and push New York to the brink of elimination Wednesday night.New York scored t…
LONDON — Squeeze in Sir, excuse me Earl. Lawmakers say the red leather benches of Britain’s House of Lords are packed to bursting – with Parliament’s upper chamber straining to cope with the needs of almost 800 members.Legislator…
McLEAN, Va. — USA Today says its average daily circulation rose for the first time in more than two years, mostly because of higher sales of digital editions to schools.The gain during the six months through March is just a tenth of 1 …
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas in the wake of international criticism about his treatment during his detention at the Marin…
MIAMI — LeBron James outscored Philadelphia’s entire starting five in the first half by himself.So did Chris Bosh.Read More…
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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state’s ballot.The bill vetoed by Brewer on Mo…
NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Times won a Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for a series exposing how politicians in the struggling, working-class city of Bell, Calif., were paying themselves enormous, six-figure salaries.The newsp…
McLEAN, Va. — Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and more than 80 other daily newspapers, says its first-quarter net income fell, weighed by special charges and lower ad revenue.Gannett Co. said Monday that it earned $90.5 million, or…
PHOENIX — Arizona, a state that has shown little reluctance in bucking the federal government, is again plowing controversial political ground, this time as its Legislature passed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other pres…
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ORLANDO, Fla. — The Atlanta Hawks’ dominance over the Orlando Magic this year is not just a regular-season phenomenon.For now, it also includes the postseason.Read More…
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County health officials say the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease was found in a hot tub at the Playboy Mansion where scores of people became ill after attending a fundraiser in February.The Los Angel…
PERRIS, Calif. — Two weeks after a pair of experienced skydivers collided and plunged to their deaths, a similar accident in southern California has left one skydiver dead and another in critical condition.The jumpers’ parachutes colli…
