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Senators defeat border security provision

Posted: 1:39 PM Supporters of the legislation said the real effect of the measure would have been to indefinitely delay citizenship for the estimated 11 million people living here illegally.

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Arias trial now turns to whether she lives or dies

Posted: 1:32 PM The same jury now returns to the courtroom Thursday to decide whether she deserves to die for killing her one-time boyfriend on June 4, 2008, at his suburban Phoenix home.

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Top Boston cop to discuss bombings with Congress

Posted: 6:36 AM Investigators used surveillance video from a restaurant near one of the explosions to help identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a police shootout, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, who survived.

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Ripple effect after fire takes out Wyo. town store

Posted: 6:33 AM Horton's Corner wasn't just any convenience store, see. It was the only place for miles around to get gas. It was Chugwater's lone grocery store. And it was one of the town's biggest employers.

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Wearable robots getting lighter, more portable

Posted: 6:29 AM Eleven years ago, Gore was paralyzed from the waist down in a workplace accident, yet he rises from his wheelchair to his full 6-foot-2-inches and walks across the room with help from a lightweight wearable robot.

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Jodi Arias says she prefers death penalty

Updated: 6:08 AM The case elevated the unknown waitress and aspiring photographer to a household name, with a real-life story of love, betrayal and murder far more alluring than any made-for-TV movie.

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Cleveland man charged with rape and kidnapping

Posted: 5:45 PM Authorities have filed kidnapping and rape charges against a Cleveland man arrested after three women missing for about a decade were found alive at his home.

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Suspect in Ohio helped neighbors look for missing

Posted: 6:51 AM In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor.

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Block where women found a friendly, careful place

Posted: 6:49 AM In the middle of the Seymour Avenue block stands the home where, authorities say, three young women who vanished a decade ago or more were held captive by a school bus driver and his two brothers.

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AP Exclusive: Air Force sidelines 17 ICBM officers

Posted: 6:47 AM "We are, in fact, in a crisis right now," the commander, Lt. Col. Jay Folds, wrote in an internal email obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by the Air Force.

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Mark Sanford redeems career, heading to Congress

Posted: 6:46 AM Sanford, who turns 53 later this month, has now never lost a race in four runs for Congress and two for governor. And he said before the votes were counted Tuesday that if he lost this one, he wouldn't run for office again.

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Search drags on for burial spot for bomb suspect

Posted: 6:34 AM Despite more than 100 offers, a Massachusetts funeral director is striking out in his search for a burial location for the body of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed in a gun battle with police.

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Ref's death a consequence of lack of sportsmanship

Posted: 6:32 AM McCabe was sickened when he heard the news that Ricardo Portillo had died Saturday, a week after the youth soccer referee in Utah had been punched in the head by a 17-year-old player angry over a yellow card.

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3 missing women found at Ohio home, 3 arrested

Updated: 11:21 PM Cleveland's police chief says three people have been arrested after three women missing for years were found in a home and one said she'd been kidnapped.

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GOP looks at overtime alternative: Time off

Posted: 10:53 AM It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.

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Jurors deliberate Arias fate amid spectacle

Posted: 5:30 AM It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the night to get into the show. One seat even sold for $200.

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Teen immigrant angst _ a factor in bombings?

Posted: 5:29 AM There is a term researchers use to describe young people who were born in other countries but came to the U.S. between the ages of 5 and 12 and have a foot in two worlds. They call them "Generation 1.5.

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Could immigration bill set off another backlash?

Posted: 5:26 AM As a Senate committee prepares to begin voting this week on far-reaching immigration legislation, advocates are watching warily to see whether opposition builds into the same kind of fierce backlash.

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