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U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (center) debates Republican candidates for U.S. Senate Chris Herrod (left), who is now a state representative, and Dan Liljenquist, of Bountiful, earlier this month in Salt Lake City. (Associated Press file photo)

Learn truth of advocacy groups' U.S. Senate race ads

Josh Loftin, Kevin Freking The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 10:57pm

WASHINGTON — Interest groups spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to influence Utah’s U.S. Senate race are making claims that often skirt the truth.

This week, delegates at the state Republican convention will attempt to wade through the numerous ads and campaign speeches and select a nominee to represent the GOP in November’s general election.

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Actor George Clooney, center, Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va, back, and Clooney's father, Nick Clooney, right, are arrested during a protest at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2012. The demonstrators are protesting the escalating humanitarian emergency in Sudan that threatens the lives of 500,000 people. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

George Clooney arrested protesting at the Sudan Embassy

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 12:12pm

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Hatch laments failure of his balanced budget amendment

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:34am

OGDEN -- Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Wednesday's defeat of the latest version of his constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget was expected, but there's no other way to bring federal spending under control.

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The Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is the Air Force mortuary that receives America’s war dead and prepares them for burial. Officials said Tuesday that the mortuary lost human remains twice in 2009. (Associated Press file photo)

Air Force hit by pattern of embarrassing errors

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12:22am

WASHINGTON — Revelations about mishandling the nation’s war dead mark the Air Force’s second embarrassing failure in three years, following the time when airmen mistakenly flew a B-52 armed with nuclear weapons across the country.

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Officials chase unconfirmed al-Qaida bomb plot in N.Y., Washington, D.C.

Eileen Sullivan, Kimberly Dozier The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 11:53am

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials said Thursday they were investigating a credible but unconfirmed threat that al-Qaida was planning to use a car bomb to target bridges or tunnels in New York City or Washington to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the first tip of an “active plot” around that date.

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White House unveils streamlined business rules

Christi Parsons Chicago Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 7:24am

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is unveiling a slate of regulatory changes it says will cut government red tape and save businesses more than $10 billion over the next five years — and, the White House hopes, bolster its effort to promote job and economic growth.

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(Steve Helber/The Associated Press) Debris covers the floor of the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the earthquake's epicenter, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The most powerful earthquake to strike the East Coast in 67 years shook buildings and rattled nerves from South Carolina to Maine.

Puzzled East Coasters: An earthquake? No way

Bob Lewis, Vicki Smith The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 6:52am

MINERAL, Va. — For a few minutes from Georgia to Maine, the question rang out: What was that? The answer — a rare East Coast earthquake, magnitude 5.8 — was far down on the list for most not used to the earth shaking beneath them.

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