Laura Wagner
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President Obama plans to ask Congress for $755 million in cancer-research funding in his 2017 budget. That's in addition to $195 million already approved in 2016.
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The company, which has set limits on the arrangement of private gun sales since 2014, will now prohibit posts about such sales on Facebook and Instagram. Licensed dealers will not be affected. -
The NFL says increased concussion reporting shows a positive "culture change" in the league, which is under pressure to make the game safer. -
The decision by a judge in Texas was a blow to prosecutors. They wanted Ethan Couch, who was deported Thursday from Mexico, to be held in an adult jail while he awaits a hearing next month. -
Of the 302,532 students who took the Advanced Placement calculus exam, Cedrick Argueta, the son of a Salvadoran maintenance worker and a Filipina nurse, was one of 12 to earn every single point. -
Gov. Paul LePage's comments follow remarks earlier this month in which he characterized drug dealers as men named "D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" who come to Maine and "impregnate young white girls." -
Mexican authorities said they put Ethan Couch on a plane in Mexico City. The 18-year-old, who was on probation for killing four people while driving drunk, had fled to Mexico with his mother. -
Amid concerns about setbacks in the fight against the Taliban, President Obama has tapped Lt. Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson to take charge of international forces.
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Suburban Chicago police Officer Joseph Gliniewicz staged his suicide last September to look like a murder, sparking a massive manhunt. It turns out he had embezzled from a city program for years. -
Rancher Ammon Bundy — who led the occupation until his arrest Tuesday — issued a statement Wednesday calling on the remaining occupiers to "stand down." -
The famed astrophysicist got into a Twitter spat with the rapper, which then turned into a bona fide rap battle.
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Vigoda, known for playing the treacherous Tessio in The Godfather and Detective Phil Fish in the TV series Barney Miller, died Tuesday.
