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Boehner: Up to Democrats to prevent budget cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday it's unlikely the Republican-controlled House and Democratic-led Senate will prevent a wave of automatic spending cuts from beginning to strike the economy in two weeks. Yet he sounded hopeful about avoiding a partial shutdown of the government when a temporary spending bill expires next month.
3 arrested in NJ videotaped stripping, whipping
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The haunting video, shot on a hot summer night, starts with a young man being ordered to strip naked as he is berated by a group around him.
Vermeer painting to go on display at Getty in LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Fans of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer will have a rare opportunity to see one of his paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles for six weeks beginning Saturday.
Church leads ACM Awards nominations with 7
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - They don't call him Chief for nothing: Eric Church is the top nominee at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards.
Perry ending California trip empty handed _ so far
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry wrapped up his high-profile recruiting trip to California on Wednesday without having persuaded any businesses to relocate to his state - at least not yet.
Banana Joe the affenpinscher wins Westminster
NEW YORK (AP) - Banana Joe is America's top dog. The affenpinscher with the monkeylike face and wagging tail was picked as best in show Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club. The 5-year-old earned his 86th best in show, a day before he was set to fly back to the Netherlands with his owner. An old English sheepdog only 20 months old was picked as the runner-up at Madison Square Garden. Also in ...
Comcast to buy GE's stake in NBCUniversal early
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Comcast is buying the rest of NBCUniversal from General Electric several years ahead of schedule to take advantage of low interest rates and what its CEO calls a "very attractive price" of $16.7 billion.
Obama's proposals face quick opposition in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans charged Wednesday that President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union address studded with tired liberal notions and campaign-style hostility and said the speech did little to ease partisan tensions over issues like gigantic budget deficits.
Senate chairman calls for action on immigration
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate opened its first hearing on a comprehensive immigration overhaul Wednesday with a call from a committee chairman for swift action on a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. Tensions quickly emerged as shouting protesters interrupted the hearing and Republicans called for border security first.
Pope says he's resigning for the 'good of the church'
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of faithful Wednesday that he was resigning for "the good of the church" - an extraordinary scene of a pope explaining himself to his flock that unfolded in his first appearance since dropping the bombshell announcement.
Lady Gaga unable to walk, postpones 4 shows
NEW YORK (AP) - Lady Gaga says she's "heartsick" to postpone four shows after sustaining an injury that's left her unable to walk.
Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bitterly divided Senate panel on Tuesday approved President Barack Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel to be the nation's defense secretary in a rancorous session at which Republican questioned the former GOP senator's truthfulness and challenged his patriotism.
Obama: Nation stronger, GOP should back his plans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation's middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit "even worse" than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first term.
Obama: Nation stronger, GOP should back his plans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation's middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit "even worse" than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first term.
Papal campaigning gets under way
VATICAN CITY (AP) - It's a political campaign like no other, with no declared candidates or front-runners and a strict taboo against openly gunning for the job. But the maneuvering is already under way, with one African contender declaring Tuesday it was time for a pope from the developing world - and he was free if God wanted him.
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Seth Meyers to replace Jimmy Fallon
NEW YORK (AP) - Seth Meyers is moving from his "Weekend Update" desk to his own late night show on NBC.
NJ barricade suspect killed, 2 bodies found
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A registered sex offender who barricaded himself for days in a home with his girlfriend's three children was shot to death Sunday as police rescued the captives and recovered the bodies of their mother and another sibling, authorities said.
Prince Harry, wounded officer launch Warrior Games
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Combat helicopter pilot Prince Harry of Britain along with Olympic swimming champion Missy Franklin joined an American naval officer who had been blinded in Afghanistan in launching the Warrior Games for wounded service members.
Body found, believed to be missing Kan. girl
OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) - A body recovered amid an intensive search is believed to be that of a missing 18-month-old girl whose mother was found dead along with two men on a Kansas farm days ago, authorities said Sunday.
Pope gives church hundreds of new saints
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.
NY man finishes writing out entire Bible by hand
SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - At last, it is written.
Ginsburg says Roe gave abortion opponents target
CHICAGO (AP) - One of the most liberal members of the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be expected to give a rousing defense of Roe v. Wade in reflecting on the landmark vote 40 years after it established a nationwide right to abortion.
AP Exclusive: IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public statements by the IRS commissioner.
Brother arrested in Valley Springs girl's murder
VALLEY SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Authorities on Saturday arrested the 12-year-old brother of an 8-year-old girl who was mysteriously stabbed at her home in a rural Northern California community last month.
Poll: Number of Americans believing in JFK conspiracy falls
A clear majority of Americans still suspect there was a conspiracy behind President John F. Kennedy's assassination, but the percentage who believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone is at its highest level since the mid-1960s, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
Lawmakers debate how to spend extra revenue
SACRAMENTO (AP) - California schools are expecting a boost from the $900 million to be raised over the next year through the closure of a corporate tax loophole, but Gov. Jerry Brown is locked in a disagreement with state lawmakers over how to hand out that money.
Jackson civil jury hears roots of singer's trouble
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A look at key moments this past week in the wrongful death trial in Los Angeles between Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, and concert giant AEG Live, and what is expected at court in the week ahead:
One by one, homes in Calif. subdivision sinking
LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) - Scott and Robin Spivey had a sinking feeling that something was wrong with their home when cracks began snaking across their walls in March.
For Cleveland women, ordeal of recovery begins now
Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare.
DNA tests done after dog attack
PALMDALE (AP) - Homicide investigators were conducting DNA tests to determine whether any of the six pit bulls seized after a jogger was mauled to death had attacked her in the Mojave Desert.
