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  • Building explodes, collapses in NYC

    At least 11 injuries are reported in the four-alarm blaze in Lower Manhattan.

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  • Luxury shooting ranges cater to new gun culture

    The "guntry clubs" sprout in gun-friendly locales across the nation.

  • Malaysia Airlines pilot's last words give no hint of trouble

  • Malaysia not sure which way lost jet was headed

    Officials acknowledge they don't know which direction the plane was heading when it vanished.

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  • Obamacare tested in Florida special election won by GOP

    The Republican victory in Florida's special election Tuesday serves as an example for future battles over Obamacare.

  • Merkel and Putin square off over Crimea

    The German chancellor is considered one of the few leaders Putin will deign to hear out.

  • San Francisco firefighters stop big blaze spread

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco firefighters prevented a five-alarm fire from spreading from a condominium construction site to nearby buildings on Tuesday.

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  • CIA-Senate dispute: Who's spying on whom?

    Complex story starts with waterboarding and ends in a secret CIA facility in Virginia.

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  • Senate investigation of CIA dogged by controversy

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A marathon Senate investigation into allegations of CIA torture during the Bush-era war on terror is veering toward partisan political territory and possibly the federal courts after unusually pointed accusations against the spy agency, including potential criminal wrongdoing.

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  • Fla. House race could be warning for Democrats

    CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. (AP) — After months of railing against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Republicans scored a key victory in a hard-fought congressional race that had been closely watched as a bellwether of midterm elections in November.

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  • Pistorius trial: Police conduct faces scrutiny

    PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius' defense lawyer on Wednesday tried to cast doubt on the competence of a South African police forensic expert who testified at the athlete's murder trial, where a toilet door and a cricket bat from Pistorius' home were introduced in the courtroom for a partial reenactment of events on the night that Pistorius killed his girlfriend.

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  • Obama to host new Ukrainian PM at White House

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House, a gesture aimed at rebuking Russia and cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling government.

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  • After thaw, snow returns to Midwest, Northeast

    CHICAGO (AP) — A wet snow forced residents of Chicago and the Midwest to once again break out shovels and slog to work along slippery roads and slow transit lines, a reality check for winter-weary residents who had just reveled in a day or so of spring-like temperatures. Along the storm's eastward track, upstate New York was gearing up for a blizzard.

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  • Pope sees banner first year, but expectations high

    VATICAN CITY (AP) — From his simple sound bites to his breaking of Vatican rules, Pope Francis has made being Catholic cool in his first year.

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  • Sandusky's wife: Victims manipulated over money

    NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky says she "definitely" believes her husband is innocent despite being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys and that the victims' financial gain was at play.

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  • Pistorius trial: cricket bat, toilet door in court

    PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Kneeling in court and swinging a cricket bat at Oscar Pistorius' toilet door, a South African forensic analyst demonstrated Wednesday how the double-amputee athlete may have bashed the door to get to the girlfriend he had just fatally shot.

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  • NYC building explodes, 11 injuries reported

    NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City apartment building has exploded in huge flames and billowing black smoke, leading to the collapse of at least one building and 11 injuries.

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  • NYC fire dept. responds to report of explosion

    NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City fire department is on the scene of a possible explosion and building collapse in East Harlem.

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  • $600K taken from safe at Osteen's megachurch

    HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities are investigating after $600,000 in checks and cash was stolen from a safe at Pastor Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch, which has one of the largest congregations in the country.

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  • 49ers acquire Jonathan Martin from Dolphins

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jonathan Martin has had Jim Harbaugh's support all along, from his early college days at Stanford to the offensive tackle's tumultuous year in which he accused a Dolphins teammate of bullying, and even in a formal NFL investigation into the situation in Miami.

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