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New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:27:33 -0400

A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in the West made it easy for fires to start and spread.

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:21:09 -0400

President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution blamed for global warming in an effort to make good on promises he made at the start of his second term. "We know we have to do more — and we will do more," Obama said Wednesday in Berlin.

Men's Wearhouse ousts founder, pitchman Zimmer

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:28:22 -0400

Men's Wearhouse doesn't like the way its founder looks anymore.

As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:09:23 -0400

As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.

Compromise among senators eyed on border security

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:08:26 -0400

After secretive talks, key senators expressed optimism Wednesday night that they were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to dramatically toughen the border security requirements in immigration legislation that also offers a path to citizenship to millions living in the country illegally.

Russia could stand in way of Obama's nuke cuts

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:31:07 -0400

By saying he intends to bargain with Russia over new reductions in nuclear weapons, rather than make cuts on his own, President Barack Obama is asking for cooperation from a former Cold War foe in no mood to agree.

FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffa's remains

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:03:14 -0400

Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains or clues to the disappearance of the former Teamsters boss.

Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:17:08 -0400

Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.

Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:32:16 -0400

A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan was not attached to a buried vessel as searchers had suspected, but still may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday.

Mueller: FBI uses drones for surveillance

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:27:17 -0400

The FBI uses drones for surveillance of stationary subjects, and the privacy implications of such operations are "worthy of debate," FBI Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.