A scheme to transport stolen cell phones, laptops and video-game systems that evolved into a plot to ship machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles to Syria was broken up with the arrest of a central figure in the plan, according to FBI documents released yesterday.
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MANILA, Philippines - Gunmen yesterday ambushed a caravan of political supporters and journalists on their way to file election papers, killing at least 24 people in a massacre considered shocking even for a region notorious for violence between rival clans.
KABUL - Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Obama convened his war council again yesterday to fine-tune a strategy to respond to the intransigent violence.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Pennsylvania lawmaker defended Rep. Patrick Kennedy yesterday against a bishop who has acknowledged asking the Rhode Island congressman not to receive Holy Communion because of his support for abortion rights.
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HARRISBURG - Radioactive dust unexpectedly blew out of a pipe being cut by workers during weekend maintenance at the Three Mile Island nuclear-power plant, and officials yesterday were trying to determine exactly how and why it happened.
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BOSTON - A convicted murderer who is seeking a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation has asked a judge to order Massachusetts prison officials to provide electrolysis treatments.
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WASHINGTON - Government safety regulators say that more than 2.1 million dropside cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled.
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NEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that police were right in keeping subway doors closed while they searched for a man accused of killing, even though passengers were stuck in a car with the suspect.
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ALBANY, N.Y. - U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for a federal review of complaints by consumers that they are losing millions of frequent-flier miles without notice in confusing agreements.
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NEW YORK - A teenager armed with a loaded handgun who was shot and killed by police officers when he pointed his gun at them was hit 11 times, the medical examiner's office said.
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WASHINGTON - Lawmakers broke along party lines on a new aspect of the health-care debate yesterday as a former National Institutes of Health chief urged women to ignore guidelines that delay the start of breast-cancer screenings.
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WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats yesterday sparred with each other over how to fix the nation's troubled health-care system, the moderates threatening to scuttle legislation if their demands weren't met and more liberal members warning their party leaders not to bend.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - A 39-year-old Southern California man has been arrested for misdemeanor child annoyance after allegedly paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face.
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