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Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights to resume

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 12:41 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 11, 2013 file photo shows a Boeing 787 flight test jet taxing following a test flight, at Boeing Field, in Seattle. Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners will be able to resume flights under an order expected to be issued Friday by the Federal Aviation Administration, although the root cause of battery failures on two of the planes is still unknown, according to congressional sources briefed by the agency. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)A revamped battery system has been approved by federal officials.

West, Texas, residents seek normalcy after deadly plant explosion

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 12:10 PM PDT

Mourners attend a service at St. Mary's Church of the Assumption Thursday, April 18, 2013, a day after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. The massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. Wednesday night killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)In this small town, everybody knows somebody who was killed or injured.

Your Friday afternoon procrastination central

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 11:40 AM PDT

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Boston bomb suspect went to Russia

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 11:24 AM PDT

Boxing Coach: Killed Boston Suspect 'Extrovert, Nice Guy'The 26-year-old died in a police shootout overnight.

Prince Harry to join expedition to the South Pole

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:38 AM PDT

(Blank Headline Received)Britain's third in line to the throne will race alongside wounded servicemen.

Conservatives gear up for immigration fight

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 10:23 AM PDT

U.S. Senate's Critics of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" proposal will point to the economy.

Brothers left clues online about motives

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 09:53 AM PDT

This combination of photos provided on Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, left, and the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, right, shows a suspect that officials have identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, being sought by police in connection with Monday's Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo/FBI, BRIC)

Pa. nurse says there was 'no justification' for killing 29 patients

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 09:07 AM PDT

In this March 20, 2013 image taken from video and provided by CBS, Charles Cullen speaks to TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — At his sentencing hearings in 2006, serial killer nurse Charles Cullen did not explain why he killed at least 29 hospital and nursing home patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Family says accused ricin mailer is mentally ill

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 08:38 AM PDT

Armed federal agents wearing hazardous material suits and breathing apparatus entered the West Hills Subdivision home of Paul Kevin Curtis in Corinth, Miss., Thursday evening April 18, 2013. Law enforcement officials blocked off the dwelling after taking Curtis into custody under the suspicion of sending letters covered in ricin to the U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Paul Kevin Curtis thought he had uncovered a scheme to sell body parts.

The debate over CISPA, a law that could change Internet privacy

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:51 AM PDT

Critics are concerned by the law's provisions for consumers.

Yankees Rivera and Cano talk about Jackie Robinson

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 07:04 AM PDT

Hanging up 42: Yankees Mariano Rivera and Robinson Cano talk Jackie Robinson's enduring legacyThe life and legend of the first black player in the MLB is the topic of the movie "42."

World's oldest person celebrates his 116th birthday in Japan

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 06:48 AM PDT

KYOTO (Reuters) - The world's oldest living person, Japan's Jiroemon Kimura, celebrated his 116th birthday on Friday with congratulations from around the world and from Japan's prime minister. Kimura was crowned the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records last December after the death of 115-year-old Dina Manfredini of Iowa in the United States. "I truly congratulate you on your 116th birthday," Prime Minister Shenzo Abe said in a video message. "I'm 58 years old, still a young man at only half your age. ...

2 brothers suspected in bombing

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 06:24 AM PDT

This image provided by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center shows Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, identified by the FBI as suspect number 2, in the Boston Marathon bombings. Authorities say Tsarnaev is still at large after he and another suspect — both identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya — killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence into the early hours of Friday, April 19, 2013. The second suspect, who has not yet been identified, was killed in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/Boston Regional Intelligence Center)The pair lived in the U.S. for over a decade.

Nissan recalls 19,000 SUVs to fix brake problem

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 05:47 AM PDT

DETROIT (AP) — Nissan is recalling more than 19,000 Nissan and Infiniti SUVs because a brake part can fail and make it harder for the driver to stop the car.

Kidnapped French family of seven released in Cameroon

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 05:38 AM PDT

By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A French family of seven, including four children, have been released in Cameroon following secret talks, France said on Friday, ending two months of captivity in the hands of Nigerian Islamist militants. The family was snatched on February 19 by armed men on motorcycles while on holiday near the Waza national park in northern Cameroon, around 10 km (six miles) from the Nigerian border. "I spoke to the father this morning ... He told me how happy and relieved he was," French President Francois Hollande told a news conference in Paris. ...

Boeing's grounded Dreamliner could fly next month

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 05:16 AM PDT

File photo of 787 Dreamliners at NaritaThe FAA is set to approve a fix for the ion-lithium battery that caused smoke.

April 19th: The day the Revolutionary War started

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 05:01 AM PDT

CJX05. Lexington (United States), 07/04/2013.- British Revolutionary War era re-enactors march past the dead and wounded Minuteman Militia members as they practice on the Battle Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA 07 April 2013. Each year on Patriots Day re-enactors assemble and re-create the Battle on the Lexington Green, or the 'Shot Heard Round The World,' the battle that started the Revolutionary War for the Colonies secession from Great Britain in 1775. Patriots Day is to be celebrated this year on 15 April. EFE/EPA/CJ GUNTHERHow accurate are some of the key facts you think you know?

Pakistan police place Pervez Musharraf in custody: spokesman

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 04:30 AM PDT

(Blank Headline Received)The former president fled from a courtroom in a dramatic scene Thursday.

Reports identify suspects

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 04:15 AM PDT

This surveillance photo released via Twitter Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Boston Police Department shows a suspect entering a convenience store that police are pursuing in Watertown, Mass. Police say he is one of two suspects in the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer and tied to the Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Boston Police Department)The two men reportedly are from a Russian region near Chechnya.

MIT campus officer fatally shot

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 02:44 AM PDT

Police officers aim their weapons Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. A tense night of police activity that left a university officer dead on campus just days after the Boston Marathon bombings and amid a hunt for two suspects caused officers to converge on a neighborhood outside Boston, where residents heard gunfire and explosions.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — One of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead and a massive manhunt is underway for another, authorities said early Friday.

MIT officer killed in campus shooting

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 01:11 AM PDT

Officials patrol an area at Massachusetts Institute of Technology following reports of a shooting, Thursday, April 18, 2013, in Boston. State police say a campus police officer at the school has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston. State police spokesman Dave Procopio says the shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building. The officer was described as a male but no further information about him was released. The city continues to cope following Monday's explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was shot and killed at the campus outside Boston, authorities said early Friday. No arrests had been made, and a manhunt was on for the shooter.

One suspect in custody after shootout near Boston

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 12:25 AM PDT

Police officers keep a man on the ground in WatertownA late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one Boston Marathon bombing suspect being captured here, the Boston Globe reports.

Gunman reportedly shoots police officer at MIT

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 09:04 PM PDT

A building is lit up in red, white and blue as a tribute to those who were killed or injured in the explosions at the Boston Marathon in CambridgeStudents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge are being told to stay indoors because of an active shooter on campus.

Gunshots heard on MIT campus, school website says

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 08:48 PM PDT

A building is lit up in red, white and blue as a tribute to those who were killed or injured in the explosions at the Boston Marathon in CambridgeGunshots were heard near a building on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the school said on its website on Thursday.

Pope Francis nixes bonus for Vatican employees

Posted: 18 Apr 2013 07:17 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano and made available Thursday, April 18, 2013, Mons. Miguel Delgado Galindo presents a jersey of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi to Pope Francis, at the Vatican Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)The global economic crisis is hitting Vatican employees in their cassock pockets.
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