 | Feds say brakes weren't applied on crashed Prius
Federal regulators say computer data from a Toyota Prius that crashed in New York show that at the time of the accident the throttle was open and the driver was not hitting the brakes.
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 | Obama signs jobs bill with $18 billion in tax breaks
President Barack Obama has signed into law a package of tax breaks and spending designed to give the nation a jobs boost.
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 | Text message dispute triggered brutal beating
Authorities say the brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and a teenage boy.
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 | Arizona sheriff launches immigration sweep
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona has launched a two-day, countywide crime and immigration sweep that authorities say will focus on drop houses, drug violators and human smuggling vehicles.
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 | Child's body found during search for boy and mom
A sheriff's spokesman says there's a "strong probability" that the child's body found washed up on an island in Puget Sound is that of an eight-year-old Washington state boy who went missing with his mother last weekend.
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 | First-time jobless claims drop slightly
The number of newly laid-off workers requesting jobless benefits fell slightly last week for the third straight week. But initial claims remain above levels that would signal net job gains.
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 | Accused 'Jihad Jane' denies terror plot in court
A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" is denying that she planned to kill a Swedish artist or agreed to marry a terrorism suspect to help him get travel documents.
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 | Wind farm plans stir up storm over military radar
The U.S. military is growing increasingly concerned that proposed wind farms can disrupt or block radar designed to detect threats and protect America's skies, a problem that is stalling the alternative energy projects around the country.
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 | Sandbags on hand, Red River area waits for flood
Volunteers have filled a million sandbags as residents of Fargo, N.D., and neighboring Moorhead, Minn., keep a wary eye on the rising Red River.
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 | Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction and now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality.
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