Gas prices jumped 18 cents over the past two weeks, the biggest jump of the year, according to a survey published Sunday. The average cost of a gallon of regular is $3.69 nationwide, the Lundberg Survey found. That’s nearly 8 cents higher than a year ago, but still 28 cents lower than it was in [...]
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Setting a blistering pace, Jamaica took the gold medal in the men’s 4×100 meter relay in London Saturday night, setting a new world record of 36.85 seconds in the process. The Jamaican team, anchored by six-time gold medalist Usain Bolt, edged out the Americans, who said a national record of 37.04 seconds to take the [...]
The much-celebrated Mars rover Curiosity is headed for Mount Sharp, where it will help scientists explore the question of life on Mars as it climbs up and up. Meanwhile, however, NASA’s budget for planetary exploration is slated to go down, down, down. Scientists are basking in the success of Curiosity’s stunning landing earlier this week, [...]
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Team USA took the silver medal in the women’s volleyball finals against Brazil Saturday afternoon in London, losing 3-1. The U.S. women’s team, ranked No. 1 in the world, had been on the top of its game in London, losing a mere two sets and winning 21 en route to a perfect 7-0 record to [...]
America’s all-star Olympic women’s basketball team won its fifth consecutive gold medal in the women’s basketball finals against France Saturday afternoon in London by a score of 86-50. American teams had won four straight golds and 40 consecutive games coming into Saturday’s final, winning most of their games this year by 30 to 40 points. [...]
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The battleship was a tip-off in more ways than one. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan descended from the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia Saturday with the campaign equivalent of a call to arms. In the conservative movement, there is arguably no bigger gun than the GOP’s presumptive vice presidential nominee. The 42-year old Wisconsin congressman [...]
Mitt Romney on Saturday announced U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate for the White House — a bold and risky move that energized both conservatives and their opponents. Ryan is a rising Republican star and the party’s leader on fiscal and budget issues. He is the architect of a Republican spending [...]
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday the United States would start to develop contingency plans with its Turkish allies in the event that the embattled Syrian regime collapses. Her announcement in Istanbul came 17 months into an escalating crisis that has claimed more than 17,000 lives and forced an estimated 150,000 refugees to flee [...]
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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake led their team to gold and a new world record in the men’s 4×100-meter relay final Saturday night, bringing a thrilling end to competition at the London Olympic Stadium. The four-man Jamaican team finished in 36.84, with Bolt drawing cheers as he ran the electrifying last leg. “For me, [...]
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A man who allegedly threatened police officers with a knife was shot and fatally wounded Saturday afternoon near Times Square in Manhattan, authorities said. The 3 p.m. incident, which occurred in an area popular with shoppers and tourists, began when officers approached a man because he was smoking what appeared to be a “marijuana cigarette,” [...]
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