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Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:06PM May 23, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong.
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Pritzker's ties to thrift, tax haven eyed
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:21PM May 23, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of commerce is facing scrutiny in the Senate for her ties to a subprime mortgage lender that failed in 2001 and as a beneficiary of family offshore trusts in the Bahamas.
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NOAA predicts another busy hurricane season
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:16PM May 23, 2013 CommentCOLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.
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Body of child found in deadly Minn. landslide
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:05PM May 23, 2013 CommentST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Authorities on Thursday recovered the body of a boy missing since a rockslide killed a classmate and left two others injured a day earlier at a St. Paul park.
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Teen brother questioned in death of 2 Utah boys
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:48PM May 23, 2013 CommentWEST POINT, Utah (AP) — An older brother was being questioned Thursday in the deaths of two Utah boys found by their mother when she returned home, police said.
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10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:19PM May 23, 2013 CommentHere's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
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Storm took town's youngest as it swept through
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:04PM May 23, 2013 CommentMOORE, Okla. (AP) — One loved the spotlight. Another was nicknamed "The Wall" because of the force he brought to the soccer field.
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Drone Attacks Accidentally Killed Americans, Obama Administration Reveals
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:05AM May 23, 2013 Comment
President Barack Obama with Attorney General Eric Holder.
Attorney General: Obama has approved new guidelines for targeted killings.
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Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:16AM May 23, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Reading, writing, 'rithmetic — and PE?
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Senator: Assaults let military culture continue
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:39AM May 23, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — A senator says repeated sexual assaults in the military allow a culture to continue.
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Man Shot by FBI Had Spoken With Bombing Suspect
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:39AM May 23, 2013 CommentORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time.
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FBI arrests suspect in Wash. state ricin case
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:05AM May 23, 2013 CommentSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks.
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Colorado killer's reprieve sharply criticized
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:01AM May 23, 2013 CommentDENVER (AP) — Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper's decision to block the execution of convicted killer Nathan Dunlap for as long as he is governor infuriated victims' families and brought quick criticism from Republicans.
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Jury in Jodi Arias Trial Resumes Deliberations
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:01AM May 23, 2013 CommentPHOENIX (AP) — Jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial resume deliberations Thursday after they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether she should be sentenced to life in prison or death for killing her one-time boyfriend, prompting the judge to instruct them to keep trying.
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Birth Control Coverage Up for Federal Appeal
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:49AM May 23, 2013 CommentDENVER (AP) — Contraception coverage by for-profit companies faces a prominent test in Denver.
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Nixon library hosts 40th reunion for Vietnam POWs
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:43AM May 23, 2013 CommentYORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — Two hundred American former prisoners of war who were taken captive during the Vietnam War are arriving in Southern California to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their release.
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Tea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:34AM May 23, 2013 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers looking for ways to widen an investigation that has so far been largely contained within the tax collection agency.
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Youngest Okla. tornado victims remembered by kin
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:33AM May 23, 2013 CommentMOORE, Okla. (AP) — Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was "everywhere at once" when she was out on the softball field. Kyle Davis, 8, was nicknamed "The Wall" because of his size and presence on the soccer field. JaNae Hornsby, also 9, was the life of the party.
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Bronx 'ghetto' tours stop amid residents' outrage
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:18AM May 23, 2013 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that included a New York City "ghetto" has stopped the bus rides under fire from an outraged neighborhood.
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For Philadelphia bicyclist, a cat is his co-pilot
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17AM May 23, 2013 CommentPHILADELPHIA (AP) — For bicyclist Rudi Saldia, you could say a cat is his co-pilot.
