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Obama making plans to tackle global warming
19 Jun 2013 at 5:16pm
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more ? and we will do more," Obama said Wednesday in Berlin.
New Colorado wildfire breaks out
19 Jun 2013 at 8:25pm
A new wildfire near Denver forces evacuations.
James Gandolfini: He let his characters star
19 Jun 2013 at 11:04pm
NEW YORK (AP) ? James Gandolfini would have hated all this fuss.
Compromise among senators eyed on border security
19 Jun 2013 at 9:08pm
WASHINGTON (AP) ? After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to dramatically toughen the border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.
Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
19 Jun 2013 at 8:19pm
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) ? Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.
US tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
19 Jun 2013 at 3:15pm
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants.
Fed suggests it's closer to slowing bond purchases
19 Jun 2013 at 5:06pm
WASHINGTON (AP) ? In a move that could send interest rates higher, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by saying the Federal Reserve will likely slow its bond-buying program this year and end it next year because the economy is strengthening.
Uncle: Patriots player had link to homicide victim
19 Jun 2013 at 11:26pm
BOSTON (AP) ? New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had a connection to a homicide victim found in an industrial park near the athlete's home, but family members and officials aren't commenting on the nature of their relationship.
In northern Iraqi city, al-Qaida gathers strength
19 Jun 2013 at 11:23pm
BAGHDAD (AP) ? Al-Qaida's Iraq arm is gathering strength in the restive northern city of Mosul, ramping up its fundraising through gangland-style shakedowns and feeding off anti-government anger as it increasingly carries out attacks with impunity, according to residents and officials.
Blackhawks beat Bruins 6-5 in OT, tie series 2-2
19 Jun 2013 at 10:10pm
BOSTON (AP) ? After struggling for more than 120 minutes to score even once, the Blackhawks beat Boston goalie Tuukka Rask a half-dozen times in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup finals to send the series back to Chicago tied two games apiece.
Actor James Gandolfini dies in Italy at age 51
19 Jun 2013 at 10:11pm
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? James Gandolfini's lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV's indelible characters.
AP PHOTOS: The career of James Gandolfini
19 Jun 2013 at 8:41pm
James Gandolfini, who won three Emmy Awards for his indelible role as mob boss Tony Soprano in HBO's "The Sopranos," died while on vacation in Italy at age 51. While Tony Soprano was a larger-than-life figure, Gandolfini was exceptionally modest and obsessive ? he described himself as "a 260-pound Woody Allen." HBO called the actor a "special man, a great talent, but more importantly a gentle and loving person who treated everyone, no matter their title or position, with equal respect."
Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim
19 Jun 2013 at 6:25pm
BOSTON (AP) ? A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home had been killed, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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