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A surprising new report questions how sharply Americans should cut back on salt.

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Boeing is delivering 787s again after a four-month halt while it fixed problems that led to smoldering batteries.

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A new government estimate says the budget deficit for the current year will come in well below what was projected just a few months ago.

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A northern New Jersey man has been charged with running a scheme to sell airplane parts that had been scrapped or rejected.

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Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron visited an impromptu memorial that sprang up near the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, striking a combative tone Tuesday in saying that democratic and multiracial countries like the United States and Britain will never give in to terrorists who feed on "the poisonous narrative" of violence, extremism and victimhood.

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Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer.

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New Orleans police and federal authorities were searching early Tuesday for a young man who is suspected of opening fire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, wounding 19.

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A new survey of New Jersey residents, who have a fair amount of assets, shows the future of healthcare costs and working later in life are very much on their minds.

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Popular psychologist, columnist, and television and film personality Joyce Brothers has died. She was 85.

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