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Mood of the Nation: Businessman sees a recovery
On the eve of the 2012 elections, The Associated Press interviewed dozens of Americans to try to gauge the economic mood of the nation. People were ...
Astronauts take spacewalk to find ammonia leak
Two spacewalking astronauts worked on a leaky radiator system outside the International Space Station on Thursday, just hours after barely dodging a ...
Mike Redmond hired as Marlins manager
The Miami Marlins' celebrity manager was a bust, so they're calling one up from the minors. Mike Redmond, who spent the past two years managing Class ...
Last shuttle's retirement move pains workers
Space shuttle Atlantis isn't going far to its retirement home at Kennedy Space Center's main tourist stop. But it might as well be a world away for ...
Romney's Fla. ads tie Obama to Chavez, Castro
Mitt Romney's campaign is running a Spanish-language ad in Florida that claims Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro's niece would support ...
Decisions show partisan bent in election managers
Decisions about how aggressively to purge ineligible noncitizens from voting rolls have varied widely from one state or county to the next, with ...
Romney campaign challenges criticism by automakers
Mitt Romney came under withering criticism Wednesday over his depiction of President Barack Obama's auto industry bailout, with Vice President Joe ...
Romney says he'll deliver 'real change' if elected
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pledged Wednesday to deliver the "real change" he says his Democratic opponent promised but has not ...
Bloomberg PAC makes biggest buy yet - in Florida
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's political committee is making its biggest expenditure to date in this year's congressional campaigns, spending ...
Obama tours storm damage, Romney mutes rhetoric
President Barack Obama soberly toured the destruction wrought by superstorm Sandy on Wednesday in the company of New Jersey's Republican governor and ...
Justices: Do drug-sniffing dogs pass smell test?
Can you trust what a dog's nose knows? Police do, but the Supreme Court considered Wednesday curbing the use of drug-sniffing dogs in investigations ...
Biden jokes about 2016 presidential bid
Vice President Joe Biden is joking about running for president in 2016. During a visit to a Sarasota, Fla., restaurant on Wednesday, Biden took a ...
Biden calls Romney auto ad an 'outrageous lie'
Vice President Joe Biden is calling advertising released by Republican Mitt Romney "an outrageous lie" for asserting that automakers General Motors ...
THE RACE: Obama hums a GOP tune: US exceptionalism
Locked in a razor-thin battle for re-election, President Barack Obama is adapting a classic Republican tune: American exceptionalism. "Now is the time ...
Rings, a banner, a win: Heat top Celtics 120-107
LeBron James limped off with leg cramps two times in the second half. He wasn't worried about the outcome. By now, he knows the depth of the Miami ...
Heat get rings, then win over Celtics, 120-107
LeBron James got cramps, Ray Allen was snubbed and Dwyane Wade was steaming. None of that spoiled the Miami Heat mood on ring night. Wade scored 29 ...
Heat get their rings in glitzy ceremony
LeBron James held his index finger aloft, then turned and took a walk nine years in the making. A few moments later, a championship ring — finally — ...
9 charged in Fla. youth football gambling ring
Authorities said Tuesday they uncovered a massive gambling operation targeting youth football games in South Florida, leading them to arrest nine men, ...
Coast Guard searches on for tall ship's captain
Robin Walbridge had been in a lot of dicey situations as the captain of the HMS Bounty, an 18th-century replica tall ship that was the set of ...
Nasty campaign tactics: Phony voting instructions
With a week to go until Election Day, the nasty campaign tactics are coming out. People in Florida, Virginia and Indiana have gotten calls falsely ...
Wife of tall ship captain awaits word on his fate
The Coast Guard used ships and airplanes to search the Atlantic on Tuesday for the captain of the sunken HMS Bounty as the sailor's wife held on to ...
Heat to raise banner, then host Celtics in opener
The last time the Boston Celtics played a game that truly counted, they had to endure a Miami Heat celebration. New season, same deal. Only this time, ...
1 dead, captain missing after Sandy claims ship
When the Bounty set sail last week, the captain running the ship made famous in Hollywood adventure films believed he could navigate around Hurricane ...
Hurricane claims famous tall ship off NC coast
The final hours of the HMS Bounty were as dramatic as the Hollywood adventure films she starred in, with the crew abandoning ship in life rafts as ...
A week to go: Sandy disrupts presidential campaign
Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as ...