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  • The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to avoid national default and end the 16-day partial government shutdown.
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republican party, democratic party, president barack obama, budget, national news
  • A wounded soldiers labored salute from a hospital room has touched thousands after the photo was posted on Facebook.
  • A wounded soldier's labored salute from a hospital room has touched thousands after the photo was posted on Facebook.
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u.s. troops, afghanistan war, national news
  • Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., is surrounded by reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ken., on Capitol Hill on Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 in Washington.
  • House Republican efforts to pass legislation averting a Treasury default and ending a government shutdown collapsed Tuesday.
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  • President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Honor to former Army Capt. William D. Swenson of Seattle, Wash., during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
  • Four years after risking his life in Afghanistan, William D. Swenson solemnly received the Medal of Honor on Tuesday.
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u.s. military, veterans, u.s. troops, president barack obama, national news
  • The National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md. is seen in this undated file photo.
  • The NSA has been collecting 'buddy lists' in email and instant messaging exchanges, the Washington Post reported Monday.
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  • Pallbearers wearing anti-bullying t-shirts carry the casket of Rebecca Sedwick, 12, to a waiting hearse as they exit the Whidden-McLean Funeral Home Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Bartow, Fla.
  • Two Florida girls who were primarily responsible for bullying a 12-year-old girl who killed herself have been arrested.
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national news
  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada takes the elevator after a rare Senate session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.
  • The Senate's top leaders expressed optimism that they were close to an agreement to prevent a national financial default.
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  • This file image from the FBI website shows Anas al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader connected to the 1998 embassy bombings in eastern Africa and wanted by the United States for more than a decade.
  • A Libyan terrorist suspect, accused on the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, is now in the U.S., officials said.
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terrorism, bombing, national news
  • SpaceXs Grasshopper rocket completed its highest leap to date, rising to 2400 feet in the air Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.
  • SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket completed its highest leap to date, rising to 2400 feet in the air.
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nasa, national news
  • Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., look to photographers as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House.
  • The Senate hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default.
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  • New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, left, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, center, and her husband Mark Kelly tour the New EastCoast Arms Collectors Associates arms fair in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013.
  • Gabrielle Giffords toured tables loaded with handguns Sunday in her first visit to a gun show since surviving a shooting.
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new york, national news
  • Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at a rally in front of the WWII Memorial Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 in Washington.
  • A crowd converged on the World War II Memorial to protest the memorial's closing under the government shutdown.
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  • Hundreds of college-age revelers in Washington state threw projectiles at police who responded with pepper spray.
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  • Nine teenagers were reported missing from Terra Blanca High Country Youth Program on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. The rural ranch for troubled youth is located at a 30,000-acre compound in high desert country, about seven miles from Hillsboro, New Mexico.
  • Authorities said two of the nine teenagers reported missing from a New Mexico ranch for troubled youth have been found.
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  • Nine teenagers were reported missing from Terra Blanca High Country Youth Program on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. The rural ranch for troubled youth is located at a 30,000-acre compound in high desert country, about seven miles from Hillsboro, New Mexico.
  • Authorities said four of the nine teenagers reported missing from a New Mexico ranch for troubled youth have been found.
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missing person, national news
  • Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., center, pauses during a news conference with, from left, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Reid, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Was., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013 in Washington.
  • Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept closer.
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  • This Tuesday, July 23, 2013, photo shows a poster soliciting information regarding an unidentified body near the site where the body was found in New York.
  • A relative was arrested in the killing of a child whose body was found in a cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991.
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arrest, homicide investigation, murder, new york, national news
  • Tourists flock to Grand Canyon Airport to take helicopter tours as the only way they could see the Grand Canyon as the entrance to park remains closed to visitors due to the continued federal government shutdown on Friday Oct. 11, 2013, in Tusayan, Ariz.
  • Arizona officials say tourists should be able to return to Grand Canyon National Park Saturday following a government plan.
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  • The White House is shown in this undated file photo.
  • With time running short, President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans accelerated efforts to end the shutdown.
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  • Attorney Jacob Laufer, who represents Ariel Potash, answers questions as he leaves federal court in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013.
  • Two rabbis were arrested in New Jersey and New York for allegedly plotting to torture a man to force a religious divorce.
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arrest, national news
  • Families of fallen troops will be assured of receiving death benefits under legislation President Barack Obama signed Thursday amid a national firestorm after the Pentagon suspended the roughly $100,000 payments during the partial government shutdown.
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  • House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio departs the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, en route to the White House to meet with President Barack Obama about a solution to ending the government shutdown.
  • House Republicans softened their long-standing demands and the White House appeared agreeable to a compromise.
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  • A Toyota logo is seen in this undated file photo.
  • A jury on Thursday found Toyota not liable for the death of a local woman in a case of alleged sudden acceleration.
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auto news, recall, legal, national news
  • In this Aug. 1962 file photo, astronaut Scott Carpenter has his space suit adjusted by a technician in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
  • Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit the Earth, died Thursday after a stroke. He was 88.
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  • Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appears in Wayne County Circuit court in Detroit, Wednesday, June 15, 2011.
  • Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption.
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national news
  • Ariel Castro in an undated photo provided by the Public Records Administrator in the city of Cleveland.
  • A new report suggests that it's possible that Ariel Castro died during auto-erotic asphyxiation, not suicide.
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national news
  • Ariel Castro in an undated photo provided by the Public Records Administrator in the city of Cleveland.
  • Anthony Castro hopes his father's life and death can lead to changes in handling sexual predators.
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national news
  • A dozen people were stuck for more than two hours on a roller coaster at Universal Studios Florida on Wednesday.
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national news
  • The VA Medical Center in downtown Los Angeles is seen in this undated file photo.
  • Military families and veterans are among those feeling the greatest hurt from the partial government shutdown.
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