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• Stepdaughter: Pa. collapse victim loved wife, work
• Russian president Putin, wife are divorcing
• Tropical Storm Andrea bears down on Florida
• Russia's Putin and wife say their marriage is over
• Christie taps N.J. attorney general for Senate seat
• IRS’ ‘Spock’ embarrassed, sorry for parody
• Report: Gov't scooping up Verizon phone records
• Don't call George Zimmerman a 'wannabe cop'
• Five things to watch in the NBA Finals
• 10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
• Lindsey Graham ‘glad’ NSA collects phone records
• Search resumes in Pa. building collapse; 6 dead
• IRS official: Lavish conference followed IRS rules
• Report: US collecting huge number of phone records
• Floodwaters surge into Dresden, northern Germany
• Turkish leader slightly mellows his tone
• Search halted in Pa. building collapse; 6 dead
• D-Day anniversary commemorations begin in France
• Maine man charged after son takes gun to day care
• Yoga, cleanup crews, and building barricades: Inside Turkey protests
• Pro-Assad forces attack villages near fallen Syrian border town
• Obama faces ‘fast on his feet’ Chinese President Xi
• Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Fla. coast
• IRS officials face grilling over lavish spending
• 6 dead, 14 injured in Philly building collapse

Stepdaughter: Pa. collapse victim loved wife, work Posted: 06 Jun 2013 01:05 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Liberian immigrant who died working at a Salvation Army store that collapsed in Philadelphia is being remembered as a hardworking man and devoted husband.

Russian president Putin, wife are divorcing Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:34 PM PDT MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have announced they are divorcing.

Tropical Storm Andrea bears down on Florida Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:20 PM PDT By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Andrea lashed Florida with tornadoes and heavy rain on Thursday and was forecast to drench much of the U.S. Southeast as it cuts across Georgia and up the Atlantic coast, the National Hurricane Center said. The season's first Atlantic tropical storm was churning in the Gulf of Mexico, centered about 100 miles east-southeast of Apalachicola, Florida, the center said. Andrea was moving northeast and was expected to make landfall late Thursday afternoon over the Big Bend area, where the Florida Peninsula joins the mainland. ...

Russia's Putin and wife say their marriage is over Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:20 PM PDT MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, said on state television on Thursday that they had separated and their marriage was over after 20 years. Asked on Rossiya-24 television about longstanding rumors that they no longer lived together, the 60-year-old Putin said: "That is true." Lyudmila Putin, 55, said it had been a "our common decision. And our marriage is over due to the fact that we barely see each other." Asked whether they were divorced, Lyudmila said it was a "civilized divorce". ...

Christie taps N.J. attorney general for Senate seat Posted: 06 Jun 2013 11:02 AM PDT

IRS’ ‘Spock’ embarrassed, sorry for parody Posted: 06 Jun 2013 11:02 AM PDT His Christian name is Faris Fink and, in real life, he's in charge of the Small Business and Self-Employed division of the Internal Revenue Service. But to most Americans following the recent saga of the IRS, he's just "Mister Spock." Fink played a starring role in a "Star Trek" parody video that was played at [...]

Report: Gov't scooping up Verizon phone records Posted: 06 Jun 2013 10:31 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain's Guardian newspaper.

Don't call George Zimmerman a 'wannabe cop' Posted: 06 Jun 2013 10:16 AM PDT His defense team wants "inflammatory" terms banned from opening remarks.

Five things to watch in the NBA Finals Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:44 AM PDT MIAMI (AP) — And then there were two.

10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:14 AM PDT Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.

Lindsey Graham ‘glad’ NSA collects phone records Posted: 06 Jun 2013 08:28 AM PDT Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, said Thursday morning he's "glad" the National Security Agency is secretly collecting millions of telephone records from Americans in an effort to track down terrorist suspects. "We are very much under threat," Graham said on "Fox and Friends," adding that he is a customer of Verizon, the communications company ordered to [...]

Search resumes in Pa. building collapse; 6 dead Posted: 06 Jun 2013 08:14 AM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say search efforts in the rubble of a collapsed building in Philadelphia that killed six people will continue through the afternoon, even though no one else is believed to be trapped.

IRS official: Lavish conference followed IRS rules Posted: 06 Jun 2013 08:14 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — An Internal Revenue Service official is defending extravagant spending at an employee conference and says it conformed with agency rules at the time.

Report: US collecting huge number of phone records Posted: 06 Jun 2013 08:14 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has been secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a document disclosed by a British newspaper. The Obama administration defended the National Security Agency's need to collect telephone records of U.S. citizens, but critics said it was a huge over-reach.

Floodwaters surge into Dresden, northern Germany Posted: 06 Jun 2013 06:55 AM PDT DRESDEN, Germany (AP) — The surging Elbe River crested Thursday in the eastern German city of Dresden, sparing the historic city center but engulfing wide areas of the Saxony capital.

Turkish leader slightly mellows his tone Posted: 06 Jun 2013 06:40 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have moderated his rhetoric regarding the anti-government protests in his country.

Search halted in Pa. building collapse; 6 dead Posted: 06 Jun 2013 06:25 AM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After a slow but steady overnight search buoyed by the discovery of a woman in the rubble, rescue workers at the scene of a building collapse that killed six people took a temporary break Thursday in what had been a round-the-clock dig for additional victims.

D-Day anniversary commemorations begin in France Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:39 AM PDT The flag was raised in an American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach.

Maine man charged after son takes gun to day care Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:39 AM PDT HALLOWELL, Maine (AP) — The father of a 4-year-old who brought his dad's loaded handgun to a Maine day care center has been charged with reckless conduct.

Yoga, cleanup crews, and building barricades: Inside Turkey protests Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:53 AM PDT The protests that began over plans to uproot trees have entered their seventh day.

Pro-Assad forces attack villages near fallen Syrian border town Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:37 AM PDT BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters pushed toward villages near Qusair on Thursday, a day after driving rebels from the border town shattered in weeks of combat. Insurgents seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were putting up a fierce fight around the villages of Debaa and Buwayda as their opponents attacked rebel-held territory, activists and a photographer in the area said. The villages were enduring heavy artillery fire, according to the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ...

Obama faces ‘fast on his feet’ Chinese President Xi Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:06 AM PDT President Barack Obama's aides have made his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week sound like a promising date -- a casual, more personal get-together without the counter-productive pressure of their formal Valentine's Day meeting at the White House in 2012. But on the hot-button issue of cyber-spying, the message from Beijing seems [...]

Tropical Storm Andrea bearing down on Fla. coast Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:49 AM PDT MIAMI (AP) — The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season got a little stronger early Thursday as it headed toward Florida's western coast and a new tropical storm warning was issued for a swath of the U.S. East Coast.

IRS officials face grilling over lavish spending Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:17 AM PDT The agency is planning a robust defense at a congressional hearing Thursday.

6 dead, 14 injured in Philly building collapse Posted: 06 Jun 2013 01:02 AM PDT People working nearby had watched with growing concern as a crew took down a vacant building.

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