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3 football players charged in Naval Academy rape case

ANNAPOLIS, Md. The U.S. Naval Academy has announced charges against three football players accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman. The academy said Wednesday the students have been charged with making a false...

US: Cervical Cancer Vaccines Cut Rates of HPV Infections

CHICAGO ? The U.S. introduction of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in 2006 has reduced infections with the human papillomavirus or HPV - the sexually-transmitted virus that causes the disease - by more than half among...

NFL's Aaron Hernandez questioned about possible homicide

Three police -- hours of the home of an NFL star new England's patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Police found the body of a man they -- an associate of his about a mile from his home. Only lines -- -- story she's live in...

Obama urges 'bold' nuclear cuts in Berlin speech

BERLIN (AP) ? Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cautioned the U.S. and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace, pledging to cut America's deployed nuclear...

Serena Williams apologises for Steubenville rape quotes

World tennis number one Serena Williams has apologised after reportedly appearing to criticise the victim in a high-profile US rape case. Rolling Stone magazine quoted her as saying the teenager in the Steubenville, Ohio, case...

Best-selling author Vince Flynn loses cancer battle at 47

Vince Flynn, a New York Times best-selling author and Minnesota native, passed away overnight with his family by his side after battling prostate cancer for two and a half years. A service in St. Paul that had been planned to...

Bernanke sends stocks, bonds skittering

(MoneyWatch) Although Federal Reserve pledged Wednesday not to take away the easy-money punch bowl immediately, Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank would likely begin easing back on its stimulus later in the year. That...

Serena Williams Steubenville Victim Blaming Prompts Awkward Backpedal ...

Serena Williams' Steubenville victim blaming prompted her apologize for her comments--- or, well, backpedal.Williams said the 16-year-old victim of the gruesome Steubenville, Ohio rape case "put herself in that position" and...

It works: HPV vaccine reduces infections by 56%, CDC says

The HPV vaccine may be controversial, but it works, new research shows. The rate of HPV infection among teenage girls dropped from 11.5% in the ?pre-vaccine era? to 5.1% in the ?vaccine era,? researchers from the Centers for...

Former TWA Flight 800 Investigators Urge New Look at Crash

FBI agents and New York state police guard the reconstruction of TWA Flight 800 in Calverton, N.Y. in 1997. Flight 800 exploded and crashed July 17, 1996, while flying from New York to Paris, killing all 230 people aboard....

Aaron Hernandez, Tangled in Murder Probe, Also Sued for Allegedly Shooting ...

New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who is caught in the middle of a homicide investigation of an "associate," is also being sued by a former friend who claims Hernandez shot his eye out after the two left a Miami...

Lawmakers question Obama's pledge to scale back US nuclear arsenal

WASHINGTON ? President Obama's pledge to cut the United States' nuclear arsenal by one-third is sending the wrong message to the global community, some Washington lawmakers said Wednesday. ?Now is not to the time to pursue...

As Tea Party rallies, FBI says IRS probe a top priority

By David Ingram and Patrick Temple-West. WASHINGTON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:47pm EDT. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a dozen FBI agents are assigned to a criminal probe into Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative...

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters attack UN base in Somalia

c_330_235_16777215_0___images_stories_edim_03_somali(4).jpg MOGADISHU (AP) ? Al-Qaeda-linked militants detonated several bombs and breached the main UN compound in Somalia's capital Wednesday, sparking gun battles that killed...

Investigators want missile theory probed in '96 TWA Flight 800 crash

A handful of aviation experts, including a number of investigators who were part of the original probe of TWA Flight 800, have come forward in a new documentary to say evidence points to a missile as the cause of the crash off...

Fed Lifts View on Job Market; Bond Buying Intact

Federal Reserve officials upgraded their assessment of the economic recovery but remained silent on when the central bank would begin pulling back on its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program. Jon Hilsenrath joins The News...

FBI: Search for Jimmy Hoffa at Oakland Township field ends; no remains found

The FBI has called off the latest search for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa after a nearly three-day excavation of an Oakland Township field. Just before 11 a.m., Detroit FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Foley III announced...

Hernandez's background scrutinized by NFL teams before draft

NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who has been connected to a possible homicide this week near his home in North Attleboro, Mass., has been dogged by off-field issues dating at least to his time at...

Why Taliban would talk as US withdrawal looms

(CNN) -- As is so often the case in Afghanistan, turmoil and confusion have clouded this week's announcement of peace talks involving the United States and the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. CNN senior international correspondent Nic...

Jimmy Hoffa: Still OK As a Metaphor for Jokes About Long-Lost Things

Despite a tip from a gentleman described as a ?reputed Mafia captain,? the body?or secret hiding place!?of deposed Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa did not emerge from ?a rural field in suburban Detroit.? If you can't bank on ?a...