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Australia plans to buy 100 state-of-the-art U.S. jet fighters and double the size of its modest submarine fleet in a bid to keep pace with an Asian military buildup.
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The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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City councilors just outside Boston say police should be better prepared for large crowds descending on a local beach after thousands of students skipped school and...
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A deputy assistant secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton has been sentenced in San Diego to more than three years in federal prison for possessing child...
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The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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In a tearful interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Monday, the parents of a British girl who disappeared two years ago from a Portuguese resort asked their...
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Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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Federal officials say a civilian project engineer has been charged with squeezing an Army Corps of Engineers contractor for a bribe in connection with a $2.5 million...
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Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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A massive contract to support U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan received a withering review Monday, as a special panel investigating waste and fraud in wartime...
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The Pentagon’s top auditor on Monday criticized KBR Inc.’s performance on a $31.7 billion combat support contract, pointing to numerous instances where the...
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Two senators have asked the Pentagon to do more to reclaim $100 million worth of overcharges paid to subcontractors of defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root, The...
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A senior adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama says that Russia has some reasonable concerns about U.S. missile defense plans.
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Defense contractor Raytheon says its first-quarter earnings rose 14 percent as sales grew across its businesses making missiles, radars and defense electronics.
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak hopes to buy a U.S. missile defense system to protect Israeli towns from short-range rockets and mortar fire, defense officials said...
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Notable defensive and special teams players in the NFL draft, grouped by projected NFL positions:
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The military says its ground-based mobile missile defense system has successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a test in Hawaii.
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AP, Prague
The Czech government postponed a parliamentary vote Tuesday on a deal to place a U.S. missile defense installation in the country.
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Defense attorneys say Little Rock police violated the constitutional rights of a suspect when they twice interviewed him in the slaying of an Arkansas TV anchorwoman.
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Claiming O.J. Simpson was dealt an injustice, the brother of the football star’s former girlfriend is soliciting money to appeal Simpson’s conviction and...
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Costs are likely to keep growing for two of the Pentagon’s biggest weapons programs as the military pushes to field fighter jets and high tech Army units even...
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A man accused of driving drunk said Pennsylvania courts have no jurisdiction over him because he’s his own country. After seeing the paperwork that 44-year-old...
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Britain’s Ministry of Defense says a rocket attack on the British base at Basra Airport in southern Iraq has killed one person.
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Poland’s president said Sunday he believes the U.S. will honor its agreement to build a missile defense base in his country, adding that scrapping the project to...
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AP, Philadelphia
Defense lawyers get paid to make clients’ cases disappear.
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For decades, journalists have been guided by what most considered an absolute defense to libel lawsuits: If a news report is true, it can’t be libelous.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, center bottom, announces the government’s defense white paper aboard HMAS Stuart at Garden Island naval base in Sydney, Saturday, May 2, 2009. Its 140-page white paper - Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force...
