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Chocolate bullets letter gets response

  Photo: The Canadian Press - The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this photo provided by Downtown Montessori Academy teacher Jenny Aicher, Aicher holds a note, Monday, May 13, 2013, in Milwaukee, written by Vice President Joe Biden to Myles, a 7-year-old...

Associated Press subpoenaed

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. The screen on the phone console at the reception desk at The Associated Press Washington bureau, Monday, May 13, 2013. . (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records...

Mother's Day shooting suspect ID'd

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas announces the issuance of an arrest warrant for 19-year-old Akien Scott in the Mother's Day shootings during a news conference in front of police headquarters in New Orleans,...

Hadfield and crew are back on earth

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronaut Christopher Cassidy, foreground, holds a power wrench as he stows away a suspect coolant pump on the International Space Station on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Thomas...

Explosions, fire reported at gas plant

  Photo: Contributed POCA, W.Va. Emergency officials say crews are responding to reports of explosions and a fire at an industrial site in West Virginia. Nitro firefighter Jeff Dorsey says crews were dispatched Monday afternoon to Airgas in Poca just...

Man talks with shrapnel still in his body

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this photo provided by The Daily Free Press and photographer Kenshin Okubo, Boston Marathon bombing victim James Costello staggers away in his torn clothing from the finish area in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP...

Obama and UK's PM talk about Syria

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this April 1, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama meets with then-leader of Britain's conservative party, David Cameron, at Winfield House in London. Monday,  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak,...

Carlos the Jackal: appeals sentences

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Francoise Rudetzki, a representative for terrorism victims, answers reporters outside the courtroom where Venezuelan convicted terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", or Illich Ramirez, is due to appear Monday, May,...

Car bomb near hospital kills children

  Photo: Google Maps A Libyan security official says a car bomb that exploded near a hospital has killed at least nine people, including three children, in the eastern city of Benghazi. Abdel-Salam al-Barghathi says the car was parked outside a bakery near the...

Barbara Walters to announce retirement

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this April 23, 2012 file photo, veteran ABC newswoman Barbara Walters arrives to the Matrix Awards in New York. The veteran ABC News anchor is set to announce Monday morning, May 13, 2013 on "The View" that...

12 injured in Mother's Day shooting

  Photo: CBC Bystanders comfort a victim while awaiting EMS after gunfire injured at least a dozen people, including a child, at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans Sunday. (Lauren McGaughy/Nola.com/The Times-Picayune) New Orleans police say that a...

Cleveland women ask for privacy

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. This image provided by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's office shows the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center booking photo of Ariel Castro, 52, after he was ordered to be held on $8 million bail Thursday, May 9, 2013, in...

Bodies found after NJ standoff

The bodies of a woman and her 13-year-old son were found after a dayslong standoff, and her boyfriend was killed as officers stormed the home to rescue three other children he had been holding captive, authorities said Sunday. Police officers went to the South Trenton home Friday afternoon...

Girl, 8, stabbed to death, brother arrested

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, Calaveras County Sheriff's deputies and volunteers stand watch at Jenny Lind Elementary School, after the murder of one it's students over the weekend, in Valley Springs, Calif....

Spacewalking repair halts serious leak

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronaut Christopher Cassidy, foreground, holds a power wrench as he stows away a suspect coolant pump on the International Space Station on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Thomas...

Prince Harry visits US Warrior Games

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Britain's Prince Harry attends a reception at Club House of Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia, Colo., Friday, May 10. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Hyoung Chang, Pool) Britain's Prince Harry chatted and joked with...

CEO expects America's Cup to sail on

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Iain Murray, Regatta Director and CEO, America's Cup Race Management, speaks at a news conference, Friday, May 10, 2013 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/George Nikitin) The head of the America's Cup planning effort...

Divisive figures enter presidential race

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves to reporters, as he registers his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election, at the election headquarters of the interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, May 11. (AP...

Bangladesh death toll over 1,100

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Bangladesh's workers and army personnel work to clean the debris and fallen ceiling of the garment factory building which collapsed in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ismail...

Astronauts hunt for leak on space station

Two astronauts began a hastily arranged spacewalk today to inspect and possibly repair an ammonia leak in the cooling system of the International Space Station.   Photo: CBC Astronauts inspect the P6 truss of the ISS. (NASA) Canadian Chris Hadfield,...