Published 16 minutes ago
Stocks edge lower on Wall Street
NEW YORK  — The stock market is waiting on the Fed.

Updated 25 minutes ago
Police at home of Patriots player
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. — State police returned to the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez today, two days after a body was found about a mile away.

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Mich. hunt for Hoffa ends
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich.  — The excavation of a rural field in suburban Detroit has failed to turn up the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, the FBI announced today, adding another unsuccessful chapter to a nearly 40-year-old mystery.

Updated 41 minutes ago
Obama calls for nuclear reductions
BERLIN  — Appealing for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Obama renewed his call today to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called “the global threat of our time.”

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Senators seek to cut costs of jet
WASHINGTON — Senators sought cost-cutting opportunities today in the Pentagon's $400 billion program for the next-generation F-35, a fighter jet with a troubled testing record that military leaders said America couldn't afford not to build.

Updated 47 minutes ago
New probe of plane crash requested
MINEOLA, N.Y.  — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.

Updated 3 hours ago
Men's Wearhouse ousts founder
NEW YORK — Men’s Wearhouse Inc. has dismissed its founder and executive chairman.

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Couple are lone deaths in Colo. fire
DENVER  — Bob and Barbara Schmidt dashed to their home on a dirt road in a heavily wooded area northeast of Colorado Springs as smoke from what would become the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history filled the air.

Updated 4 hours ago
8 hurt when car jumps NYC curb
NEW YORK  — Fire authorities say eight people have been hurt, several of them seriously, after a car jumped a curb and slammed into a Manhattan store.

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Karzai suspends talks with U.S.
ABUL, Afghanistan  — The Afghan president today suspended talks with the United States on a new security deal to protest the way his government was being left out of initial peace negotiations with the Taliban meant to find a way to end the nearly 12-year war.