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Senate prepares to target Internet sales tax collection

The Senate is expected to pass a bill Monday making it easier for states to collect sales taxes for online purchases.

May 6 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

Obama: US, Latin America must fight drug violence

President Barack Obama on Friday cast Mexico as a nation ready to take “its rightful place in the world” and move past the drug battles and violence that have defined its relationship with the United States. He then headed to Costa Rica to prod Central American leaders to tackle those same issues more aggressively.

May 4 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

Three accused of trying to help bomber

Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are arrested.

May 1 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

Information sharing before bombings under review

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday his counterterrorism bureaucracy “did what it was supposed to be doing” before the Boston Marathon bombing as his top intelligence official began a review into whether sensitive information was adequately shared and whether the U.S. government could have disrupted the attack.

May 1 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

After near-stall in late 2012, US economy picks up

WASHINGTON— After nearly stalling in late 2012, the American economy quickened its pace early this year despite deep government cutbacks. The strongest consumer spending in two years fueled a 2.5 percent annual growth rate in the January-March quarter.

Apr 26 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

Major financial companies slashing jobs

NEW YORK — Banks aren’t the big jobs machines they used to be.

Apr 25 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

WASHINGTON — In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said.

Apr 23 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »

Police: Bombing suspects planned more attacks

As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. The surviving suspect remained hospitalized and unable to speak with a gunshot wound to the throat.

Apr 21 2013 | Posted in AP News | Read More »