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President Barack Obama consoled a rural Texas community rocked by a deadly fertilizer plant explosion, telling mourners Thursday they are not alone in their grief and they will have the nation's support to rebuild from the devastation.

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The engines driving the stock market were more tepid than turbocharged Thursday, but they were enough to help stocks rise for a fifth straight day.

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Top Democrats in Congress are voicing support for a measure to roll back budget cuts that led to delays for airline passengers because of air traffic controller furloughs.

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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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President Barack Obama, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Gov. Rick Perry are to speak at a memorial to victims killed in a Central Texas fertilizer plant blast.

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Thousands of mourners -- including MIT students, faculty and staff, and law enforcement officials from across the nation -- have paid their respects to a campus police officer who authorities say was ambushed in his cruiser by the Boston Marathon bombers.

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The bodies of five people who had been shot to death were found early Wednesday in a house in a tiny southwestern Illinois town, and authorities said a suspect was injured and taken into custody a short time later.

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The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings killed in a shootout with police received welfare benefits from the state up until last year, when he became ineligible based on family income.

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Online privacy rules are changing. The question now is how much you'll care.

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A court filing says charges have been dropped against a Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others.

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