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WASHINGTON — Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama took a break to ask for some rain protection.
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WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 (AFP) - The head of the scandal-plagued IRS apologized to Congress Friday for "foolish mistakes" made by the federal tax agency in targeting conservative groups but insisted the action was not politically motivated.
Full Story Lawmakers accused leaders of the Internal Revenue Service of lying on Friday as they opened the first in a series of investigative hearings about the tax collection agency's targeting of conservative groups.
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CANNES - British actress Emma Watson has turned to crime in her latest role as part of a celebrity-obsessed teenage gang robbing their Hollywood idols' homes in a film that made its debut at the Cannes film festival on Thursday.
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This week we'll be chatting with Bay Area News Group TV critic Chuck Barney about the likes of "Dancing With The Stars," "Game of Thrones" and more.
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Had you told Claire Stoermer early on during Season 16 of "Dancing With the Stars" that her teen daughter, Zendaya, would land in the show's finale, she might have had a good laugh.
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Middle-aged men who stayed fit were less likely to die from three common cancers after being diagnosed than those who were out of shape, research found.
Full Story WASHINGTON — Human feces taints more than half of public swimming pools, a finding U.S. health officials are using to urge better personal hygiene as the summer months approach.
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NEW YORKÂ —Â Two of New York's leading auction houses combined for the art world's richest sales week ever, with works going under the hammer for a breathtaking total of more than one billion dollars.
Full Story Despite a groundswell of demand from customers to improve factory conditions overseas, most American retailers have bowed out of an international fire-and-building safety agreement to reform the garment industry in Bangladesh.
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Wednesday's economic growth numbers make it official: The euro zone is in its longest recession since records began in 1995.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Facebook's "Like" feature is vital to 500 million people who share ideas on the social network and must have free-speech protection under the Constitution, a lawyer for the company told a federal appeals court.
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It was supposed to be the IPO of the decade: a soaring success that would finally shake Silicon Valley out of its doldrums and pave the streets with gold.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Google says it's still figuring out the best ways to use Glass, but the company announced Thursday that Facebook, Twitter and several other media firms have built their own applications for the futuristic-looking wearable computer.
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At California theme parks, it's the year of the roller coaster, with four new ones -- all very different -- scheduled to make their debut.
Full Story This farmstead dates to 1663, when Sir Isaac Newton and Rembrandt were its contemporaries. The 11 remaining structures once made up the Bronck family farm in Coxsackie, N.Y.
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Hear the word museum and odds are you conjure up an image of portrait halls and sculpture gardens - the traditional home of traditional art. However, the world is a huge, creative and even quirky place. So to satisfy those offbeat tastes here are 10 quirky museums.
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BURLINGAME, Calif., -- A Japanese restaurant that offers exotic meats may have been bitten off more than it can chew.
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Dark leafy greens, especially the typified kale, are enjoying their season in the spotlight. It's about time!
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Americans have been brewing beer in their homes since colonial times — both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were home brewers.
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BURLINGAME, Calif., -- A Japanese restaurant that offers exotic meats may have been bitten off more than it can chew.
Full Story WASHINGTON — Human feces taints more than half of public swimming pools, a finding U.S. health officials are using to urge better personal hygiene as the summer months approach.
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David Beckham was not the best soccer player of his generation. In fact, years from now when historians of the sport appraise his splendid career, they will be hard-pressed to find a place for him on a contemporary top 10 list.
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Providing viewpoint from inside the family, Branch Rickey III gives the movie "42" a 10.
Rickey III is the grandson of Branch Rickey, one of the important characters in the movie as the man credited with bringing Jackie Robinson to the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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OAKLAND -- Warriors guard Jarrett Jack was on the verge of tears as he stood at his locker. He couldn't find the words to truly express what he was feeling, so he let his attire do the talking for him.
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This week Troy Wolverton of the San Jose Mercury News answers your questions about the week in technology news.
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Dark leafy greens, especially the typified kale, are enjoying their season in the spotlight. It's about time!
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The weather was beautiful and humans weren't the only ones enjoying the warm sunshine.
Two piglet warthogs — Daphne and Violet — came outside for the first time at the Detroit Zoo on Wednesday, under the close watch of their mother, Lilith.
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| | | MOSCOW - Russia's security services openly named the US intelligence agency's Moscow station chief Friday in a rare breach of protocol after arresting an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the US embassy.
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BAQUBA, Iraq — Two bombs exploded outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba as worshippers left Friday prayers, killing at least 43 people in one of the deadliest attacks in a month-long surge in sectarian violence.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Friday denied allegations that he smoked crack cocaine.
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Today's White House press briefing is likely to be one worth watching.
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Russia said Tuesday it had caught an American as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA.
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DETROIT - Federal agents arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month. Hussain Al Kwawahir will be arraigned at 1 p.m. in federal court for allegedly using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.
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| | | Few other brands remain as rooted to their beginnings as Aston Martin. After a century, we're still getting more of the glorious same.
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Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations.
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Tesla Motors, the Palo Alto maker of electric cars run by Elon Musk, plans to sell as much as $830 million in shares and debt to repay its federal loan faster than planned as its stock trades near record highs.
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Pickle jars shut down a road in Michigan, while in Florida a woman accidentally shoots her friend. Those and other items in this edition of the bizarre blotter.
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A cat gets stuck in a tree, as does the police officer who tries to save it; a woman's incessant singing causes the emergency landing of an American Airlines flight; and a man allegedly empties 57 bottles of whipped cream in this edition of the blotter.
Full Story In this edition of the Weird Wide World, we've got a man just drunk enough to chase an elephant, a country where a Wal-Mart is never really a Wal-Mart and a failed effort to take a favorite Canadian snack - poutine - and put it in a bottle.
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