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Increase in adolescent suicides worries communities
Rachel Baye
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Students, teachers and parents at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac are mourning the loss of a 16-year-old basketball player who killed himself this week, joining a growing number of youths who commit suicide each year. Suicide accounts for roughly 16 percent of deaths among people...
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Carney: Criticism of IRS response 'legitimate'
Updated: 22 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's spokesman says the White House is facing "legitimate criticisms" for its shifting accounts about who knew what about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups, and when they knew it. Press secretary Jay Carney's...
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4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes
Updated: 22 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged publicly for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 in Pakistan and Yemen. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack...
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Pentagon: New record plan won't help vet backlog
Updated: 22 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has decided to buy a new computerized health records system to be able to better share and merge its data with the Department of Veterans Affairs, but officials cautioned that it was part of a "long-term modernization" effort and would not help ease the backlog...
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Boy achieves family dream with geography bee win
Updated: 22 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Passion for geography runs deep in Sathwik Karnik's family. When he was about 6, his mother began challenging Sathwik and his older brother, Karthik, to her own version of hide-and-seek — using an atlas. The boys would comb through the book, trying to be the first to find...
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House panel moves to curb military sexual assaults
Updated: 23 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of a House panel angry over the growing epidemic of sexual assaults in the military took a key step toward tackling the problem by passing legislation Wednesday that would strip commanding officers of their longstanding authority to unilaterally change or dismiss...
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Soldier charged with videotaping women
Updated: 23 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army sergeant has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including in a bathroom. The Army said Wednesday that Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon is facing charges of dereliction of duty,...
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Judge apologizes for lag in unsealing documents
Updated: 23 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is apologizing for an 18-month delay in unsealing documents in a case involving an alleged leak of classified information to a reporter. The documents include two warrants for the email accounts of Stephen Kim, a State Department adviser who faces charges of...
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Benghazi review leader OKs meeting with committee
Yesterday
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee chairman has withdrawn a subpoena to compel a retired diplomat to answer questions in private about an independent investigation of last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya. Rep. Darrell Issa (EYE'-suh) says he acted after Thomas Pickering agreed to meet with...
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Fed weighed slowing its pace of bond purchases
Yesterday
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several Federal Reserve policymakers this month favored slowing the Fed's efforts to maintain record-low long-term interest rates as early as June — if the economy showed strong and sustained growth. But those officials appeared at odds over what evidence would demonstrate...
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