Mark Sullivan said there was not national security breach because agents didn’t have specifics about the president’s Colombia trip.
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A woman who was driving a van that struck and killed an 8-year-old Skokie boy has been charged with DUI, police say.
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Legal analysts awaiting a verdict in the John Edwards federal corruption trial say the judge’s interpretation of the law could shape what the jurors might ultimately decide.
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Ina May Gaskin, the original home-birth evangelist, is finally winning converts in the mainstream.
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Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents’ hiring of prostitutes. Read full article >>
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A Pakistani doctor who helped the C.I.A. locate Osama Bin Laden with a fake vaccination campaign was convicted of treason and given 33 years in prison, a Pakistani official said.
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A young man was killed this morning when his car slammed into a light pole in the city's Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said.
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(Reuters) - World powers began talks with Iran on Wednesday to test its readiness under pressure of sanctions to scale back its nuclear program, seeking to ease a decade-old standoff and avert the threat of a Middle East war.
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While Illinois consumers' adoption of broadband Internet service in recent years has been about average for the nation, growth in the number of businesses in the Land of Lincoln getting online with broadband is soaring, according to the monthly Illinois Innovation Index to be released Wednesday.
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A federal judge today granted preliminary approval to a $4.1 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of a group of female detainees at the Cook County Jail who claimed they were shackled while they were pregnantand in labor, despite a state law banning the practice.
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A vast majority of Americans say they eat more whole grains and fresh produce than they did five years ago, but many believe the federal government needs to do more to ensure greater access to locally produced fresh food, according to a new survey.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been jailed for 33 years for treason, officials said, a move likely to deepen strains in ties between Washington and Islamabad.
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan suffered broken ribs in a fall and is recovering slowly.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptians relished their first free leadership vote on Wednesday, with Islamists pitted against secular figures in a contest unthinkable before a popular revolt swept President Hosni Mubarak from power 15 months ago.
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A Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, officials said, a verdict that is likely to further strain the country's relationship with Washington.
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Shortly after a 6-year-old boy was suspended for singing a pop song to a girl — deemed sexual harassment — Colorado moved to ease disciplinary policies in schools, as other states have.AURORA, Colo. — On May 2, D'Avonte Meadows, a 6-year-old with an infectious grin and rambunctious streak, was suspended for three days from Sable Elementary in suburban Denver for crooning "[I'm] Sexy and I Know It" to a girl in lunch line.
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The CIA publicly acknowledges 15 of its operatives, some previously identified as State Department workers, who were killed in the last 30 years.WASHINGTON — The CIA on Tuesday disclosed the names of 15 of its operatives killed in the line of duty over the last 30 years, the result of a new effort to honor fallen officers whose sacrifices had long gone unrecognized by all but a few.
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Facebook and the Wall Street banks that underwrote its $16 billion IPO are facing questions about how and why stock analysts decided to cut financial forecasts on the company ahead of the IPO and only notify its larger clients of the move.
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As negotiations with city school district drag on, threatened strike vote loomsThe Chicago Teachers Union expects thousands of teachers to show up Wednesday for a downtown rally staged to fire up its members and serve as a display of muscle in the midst of protracted contract talks with the school district.
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On the third day of deliberations in John Edwards' campaign finance trial, jurors request two more prosecution exhibits, bringing the total number to more than a dozen. GREENSBORO, N.C. — A third day of jury deliberations in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards passed without a verdict Tuesday, with the jurors due back in federal court Wednesday morning.
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The heads of the 27 European Union nations are gathering in Brussels to hear proposals to address the crisis in the currency zone.
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The change at CUNY’s top colleges among incoming freshmen comes a decade after the university ended open enrollment and confirms predictions made by opponents during the battle over admissions.
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It is projected that there will be more than 10 billion mobile devices in use around the world by 2016, and a new report from Brookings Institution’s Darrell West outlines just how powerful mobile devices could be in the battle to bring down health care costs while simultaneously improving and expanding care. Read full article >>
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The states appear to have resolved a months-long dispute that could have kept the president's name off the ballot in November.HONOLULU — The state of Hawaii has verified President Obama's birth records to Arizona's elections chief after a nearly three-month back-and-forth that Arizona officials had said could have ended without the incumbent's name on its November ballot.
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— The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real estate, federal prosecutors alleged in two forfeiture cases filed Tuesday.
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