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Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 6:40pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign....
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Arrests in New Orleans parade shootings cheered

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 5:43pm
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Days after bursts of gunfire brought a chaotic and bloody end to a Mother's Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans, news of now seven arrests gave an organizer of the traditional event reason to celebrate again....
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Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 5:39pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control....
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A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 5:27pm
NEW YORK (AP) -- It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering....
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Record Powerball jackpot inspires office pools

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 4:46pm
In workplaces across the nation, Americans are inviting their colleagues to chip in $2 for a Powerball ticket and a shared daydream....
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Bombs targeting Sunnis kill at least 76 in Iraq

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 4:36pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bombs ripped through Sunni areas in Baghdad and surrounding areas Friday, killing at least 76 people in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than eight months. The major spike in sectarian bloodshed heightened fears the country could again be veering toward civil war....
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Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 4:09pm
PETARE, Venezuela (AP) -- Stern-looking soldiers clutching assault rifles wave down the beat-up Chevy Caprice entering this sprawling slum on the outskirts of Caracas....
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Idaho man charged in Uzbekistan terrorism plot

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 3:36pm
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- He was a Russian-speaking truck driver in Idaho, among hundreds of Uzbekistan natives for whom the state has become a sanctuary from violence in their home country in the past decade....
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Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 2:34pm
MILAN (AP) -- Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal....
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The IRS and its tea party tempest

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 1:31pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck....
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Dark clouds hang over air shows after budget cuts

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 1:18pm
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- Patty Wagstaff is a Hollywood stunt pilot, three-time U.S. aerobatic champion, inductee to the National Aviation Hall of Fame and favorite on the air show circuit. One of her tricked-out planes is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum....
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Even after Cold War, US-Russia spy game continues

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 12:35pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The embarrassing arrest of a suspected CIA officer in Moscow is the latest reminder that even after the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia are in an espionage battle with secret tactics, spying devices and training that sometimes can't prevent capture....
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Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 12:12pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer demand....
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Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:44am
BEIRUT (AP) -- About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of Damascus. They grabbed a 24-year-old university student and drove off....
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$1 million in jewels stolen near Cannes film fest

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:24am
PARIS (AP) -- Suspected thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about $1 million worth of jewelry inside, a French police official said Friday....
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NYers furious over photos taken through windows

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 7:21am
NEW YORK (AP) -- In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap....
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As yen falls, goods from Japan are more affordable

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 6:38am
Japanese goods are getting more affordable. For consumers worldwide - and for Japan's economy - it's welcome news....
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10 Things to Know for Today

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 5:59am
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California fuels $550 million Powerball jackpot

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 3:37am
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The numbers sum up the frenzy that has taken over the Golden State since it joined the madness over Powerball, which has seen its jackpot soar to $550 million for Saturday's drawing....
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Beckham's role after retirement to remain global

AP Top Stories - Fri, 05/17/2013 - 3:20am
PARIS (AP) -- After David Beckham's long and distinguished soccer career ends on an artificial turf field in northwestern France, his life promises to be perhaps even more glamorous than it already has been....
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