Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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The president sends Congress a $3.77 trillion proposal today to tame deficits that have soared above $1 trillion for the past four years.
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South Korea braced for a test-fire of a ballistic missile, while in Pyongyang, the AP’s Jean H. Lee reports, it was business as usual.
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Texas authorities say 20-year-old Dylan Quick said he’d fantasized for years about stabbing people to death.
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Havana denied refuge to a man and his wife charged with kidnapping their two sons from Florida in a case that recalled the Elian Gonzalez saga.
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A compromise on background checks was expected to be reached today, and Senate Democrats were trying to sway moderate Republicans before Thursday’s vote.
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Radmilo Bogdanovic tells the AP his brother Ljubisa, who police say gunned down 13 people in his small village, was a “frightened little boy” as a child.
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The U.S. Air Force plans to ground about a third of its active-duty force of combat planes because of federal cost-cutting.
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The storm delayed hundreds of flights and sent the mercury to a high of 12 degrees in Cheyenne, Wyo.
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Joan Baez says the Hanoi bunker she returned to for the first time since 1972 “was my first experience in dealing with my own mortality.”
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Connecticut routed the Cardinals 93-60 for its eighth national women’s basketball championship.
