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Group projects 12.2 million Latino voters in 2012

The turnout projection was announced Wednesday by the bipartisan National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund

Man shot, killed after opening fire at NY court

A man killed in a gunfight with security officers at a courthouse Wednesday was angry at the city mayor and facing charges he menaced the mayor's daughter last

Oil prices rise after US supply report

Oil prices climbed to near $99 per barrel Wednesday following government reports that U.S. supplies didn't grow as much as expected last week.

US shark attacks decline in 2011

A new report says shark attacks declined in the U.S. last year, but worldwide fatalities reached a two-decade high.

GOP vows to reverse Obama birth control policy

Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the requirement that religious schools and hospitals

Santorum takes it to Romney in Colorado

On Tuesday night, emerging victorious wasn’t the presidential candidate who won the Centennial State in the GOP caucus four years earlier. It was the newcomer.

Ohio school bus, truck collide; 11 injured

A pickup truck lost control on an icy road and crashed head-on into a school bus Wednesday morning, sending eight children and three adults to a hospital with

In 911 call, worker fears for Josh Powell's sons

A 911 recording reveals a social worker's urgent attempts over more than six minutes to get a dispatcher to send deputies after Josh Powell locked himself and

Report: Teacher's aide sent love letters to boy

Officials at an elementary school rocked by teacher sex abuse claims are investigating yet another allegation of misconduct, this one involving a 50-year-old

28 more airports will test lower-hassle screening

A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said

US Supreme Court won't permit Ohio execution

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday added another wrinkle to Ohio's debate over how strictly the state's lethal injection procedures should be followed.

House approves line-item veto for president

House Republicans put aside their usual antipathy toward President Barack Obama on Wednesday to give the president, and his successors, the line-item veto, a

Santorum: I won and raised about $250K Tues night

Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the

Mo. teen gets life with possible parole in killing

A Missouri teenager who had described the slaying of a young neighbor girl as an "ahmazing" thrill made an emotional apology Wednesday to the girl's family and

Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath

Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say

House ready to consider insider trading ban

Legislation that would ban insider trading by lawmakers and thousands of executive branch officials headed for what could be a more contentious debate in the

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