Crews hike to precarious boulder after Colo. slide
Workers hiked up the side of a Colorado canyon Tuesday to examine another boulder threatening to fall on Interstate 70 after a rock slide forced the highway to close indefinitely.
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Opponent files ethics complaint on La. Sen. Vitter
A challenger to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter says Vitter's re-election campaign made illegal use of a government emblem on a fundraising letter.
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Man who caused Newark airport breach pleads guilty
A lovesick graduate student from China who slipped under a rope barrier at Newark Liberty International Airport to say goodbye to his girlfriend, prompting a security breach and leading to worldwide flight delays, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Tuesday and apologized publicly for the first time.
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Pa. woman charged with recruiting jihadists online
A suburban Philadelphia woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been charged with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, even agreeing to move to Europe to try to kill someone, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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Ohio State janitor's gunfire kills co-worker, self
An Ohio State University janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift Tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. No students were hurt.
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Calif. test-taking case shows gap in visa security
A ring accused of helping people from the Middle East obtain student visas by taking their proficiency exams and classes has exposed vulnerability in the nation's security tracking system for foreigners who attend U.S. schools, experts said Tuesday.
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Coast Guard begins hearing on Texas oil spill
An 800-foot tanker struggling with poor visibility and strong winds apparently failed to center itself in a narrow waterway off the Gulf of Mexico, possibly contributing to a collision with a tugboat that caused the largest oil spill in Texas in 15 years, according to testimony and evidence presented at a Coast Guard hearing on Tuesday.
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Workers urge faster rebuilding at ground zero site
Hundreds of construction workers raised a rallying cry of "Build it now!" on Tuesday, gathering with elected officials at the World Trade Center site to urge a quick rebuilding of the complex.
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Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud
Centralians have long believed the government's demolition of their beloved town in the 1980s was part of a plot to swipe the mineral rights to anthracite coal worth hundreds of millions of dollars _ and not, as state and federal officials said, the solution to an out-of-control underground mine fire that menaced the town with toxic gases.
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Texas judge rescinds anti-death penalty ruling
A Texas judge criticized for declaring the death penalty unconstitutional took back his controversial ruling Tuesday but scheduled a hearing for next month to hear evidence on the issue.
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