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Military grooms new officers for war in cyberspace

Posted: 7:01 AM Students at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies are taking more courses and participating in elaborate cyberwarfare exercises as the military educates a generation of future commanders

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Obama consoles families, survivors of Texas blast

Posted: 6:59 AM "This small town's family is bigger now," Obama said during a memorial service at Baylor University for victims of last week's explosion in nearby West, Texas, that killed 14 and injured 200.

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect out of hospital

Posted: 6:50 AM The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central Massachusetts.

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Penny poisons poor pooch

Updated: 5:16 AM Some dogs will eat just about anything, from chicken bones to plants to prescription pills. One poor pooch from Colo. lost her life after eating another item found commonly in households: a penny.

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Dems, GOP talk up deficit reduction, but don't act

Posted: 7:00 AM For years, House Republicans have adamantly refused to raise income taxes, even though U.S. taxes are historically low, and the Bush-era tax cuts were a major cause of the current deficit.

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Officials: Bomb suspect silent after read rights

Updated: 12:36 PM Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: He'd just been read his constitutional rights.

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Boston Marathon victims vow to dance, to run again

Posted: 6:29 AM Parts of them may be broken, but both patients at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital said in separate interviews Wednesday that their spirits are intact and their thoughts are positive.

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Fuel barges explode, causing large fire in Alabama

Posted: 6:28 AM A large fire that began with explosions aboard two fuel barges in Mobile, Ala., was rocked by a seventh explosion early Thursday and fire officials said they planned to let the fire, which has injured three, burn overnight.

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Family upset over Air Force officer's transfer

Posted: 6:18 AM The family says Lt. Col. James Wilkerson' transfer to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on the southern edge of Tucson is upsetting because roughly half the woman's family lives there.

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Online privacy is evolving. Does it matter to you?

Posted: 8:45 AM America's tech industry is finalizing voluntary disclosure standards on the sensitive information being sucked from your smartphone like your location, surfing habits and contacts.

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Lawmakers ask who knew what about bomb suspect

Updated: 11:48 AM Lawmakers are asking tough questions about how the government tracked suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he traveled to Russia last year.

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Did brotherly bond play role in Boston bombings?

Posted: 7:42 AM It's a vexing puzzle about the Boston Marathon bombings: The younger of the two accused brothers hardly seemed headed for a monumental act of violence. How could he team up with his older brother to do this?

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Poll: Aging US in denial about long-term care need

Posted: 7:38 AM A new poll examined how people 40 and over are preparing for this difficult and often pricey reality of aging, and found two-thirds say they've done little to no planning.

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Flood victims pray for dry weather as rivers crest

Posted: 7:32 AM Floodwaters were rising to record levels along the Illinois River in central Illinois. In Missouri, six small levees north of St. Louis were overtopped by the surging Mississippi River, though mostly farmland was affected.

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Report: Richest 7% got richer during recovery

Posted: 1:23 PM The richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of U.S. households, says a report released Tuesday.

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Lawmakers urge delay in control tower furloughs

Posted: 12:55 PM As airport delays spread across the country, members of Congress on Tuesday urged the administration to postpone the furloughing of air traffic controllers

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NTSB probes safety testing of Boeing 787 batteries

Posted: 12:52 PM As airlines prepare to resume flying Boeing's beleaguered 787 Dreamliners, federal investigators looked Tuesday at how regulators and the company tested and approved the plane's cutting-edge battery system

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Study: Lax attitude on teens and Rx drug abuse

Posted: 8:53 AM More parents need to talk with their teens about the dangers of abusing Ritalin, Adderall and other prescription drugs, suggests a new study that finds discouraging trends on kids and drug use.

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