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National Police Week: Blue Mass honors nation's 120 fallen officers
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The Blue Mass marks the beginning of National Police Week, a celebration of law enforcement officers past and present, as well as their service and sacrifice.
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James Holmes, Aurora shooting suspect, to enter insanity plea
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Attorneys for James Holmes said in a court filing Tuesday they plan to formally ask for the change of plea at a May 13 hearing.
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Pentagon: Reported sexual assaults up last year
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Officials say a new Pentagon study reports that the number of sexual assaults reported by members of the military rose from 3,192 to 3,374 in 2012.
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Chris Christie underwent gastric band surgery
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Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent gastric band surgery in February to try to lose weight at the urging of his family.
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Senate passes bill letting states tax online sales
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The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 69 to 27, getting support from Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Gun made from 3-D printer fires successfully; calls for ban follow
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There's a new effort underway in Congress to ban what once sounded like science fiction - a gun built using a printer.
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Uncle arranging Boston bomb suspect's burial rites
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Relatives of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died in a police shootout, are fighting to find a place to bury him after a cemetery in Cambridge turned down their request.
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Cicadas 2013: Cicadas to outnumber people 600-to-1
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Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast.
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Morning-after pill: NY judge urged not to delay decision
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Reproductive rights advocates have asked a New York City judge not to delay a plan to let women and teenage girls buy morning-after birth control without a prescription.
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Kermit Gosnell trial: Jury returns, continues deliberations
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Bradley Manning trial: Secrecy shrouds pretrial hearing
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Government secrecy reaches a new level this week in the court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who sent 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the WikiLeaks website.
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Republicans push for overtime-turned-paid time off
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Republicans in Congress are pushing legislation that would extend the option of using overtime hours as paid time off, to the private sector.
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Philadelphia abortion murder trial has national impact
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Groups supporting legal access to abortion, after major successes in the 2012 national elections, find themselves on the defensive. Anti-abortion activists, in contrast, are energized by the case, renewing efforts to expand state restrictions on abortion.
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Soccer referee punched by player in Utah dies
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A 46-year-old soccer referee who was punched by a teenage player during a game and later slipped into a coma has died, police said.
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Kentucky Derby: Trainer Pletcher seeking Oaks-Derby double
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A win in the Kentucky Oaks on Friday has Todd Pletcher halfway toward a milestone last achieved 51 years ago.
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Newtown board mulls plans for Sandy Hook school
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A task force of 28 local elected officials had been set to possibly vote on a recommendation to the local school board but continued the discussion to next Friday.
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Jobless aid numbers drop by 16,000 last week
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The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to seasonally adjusted 324,000, the lowest since January 2008.
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Penny Pritzker to be nominated as Commerce Department head
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President Barack Obama on Thursday will nominate a longtime fundraiser to run the Commerce Department and a top economic adviser as the next U.S. Trade Representative, a White House official said.
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