FBI: Wife tried to frame husband for ricin letters
Written by DANNY ROBBINS,Associated Press NOMAAN MERCHANT,Associated Press
TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — Shannon Richardson had been married to her husband less than two years when she went to authorities and told them her suspicions: He was the one who had mailed ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg threatening violence against gun-control advocates.
How did secret phone program help foil NYC plot?
Written by KIMBERLY DOZIER,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's broad programs to collect U.S. phone records and Internet traffic helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subways, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.
Andrea's rain spawns flood warnings on East Coast
Written by JAKE PEARSON,Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Soaking rains that spawned numerous flood warnings pushed some streams and creeks over their banks throughout the Northeast, yet the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season sped up the Eastern Seaboard without causing major damage.
Insider attack kills 3 Americans in Afghanistan
Written by KAY JOHNSON,Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials said.
US regains wealth from recession, but not equally
Written by BERNARD CONDON,AP Business Writers CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER,AP Business Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) — America as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the Great Recession and then some, thanks to higher stock and home prices.
US declassifies phone program details after uproar
Written by DONNA CASSATA,Associated Press JOSH LEDERMAN,Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to tamp down a public uproar spurred by the disclosure of two secret surveillance programs, the nation's top intelligence official is declassifying key details about one of the programs while insisting the efforts to collect America's phone records and the U.S. internet use of foreign nationals overseas were legal, limited in scope and necessary to detect terrorist threats.
Cause of deadly Philly collapse sought; suit filed
Written by KATHY MATHESON,Associated Press MARYCLAIRE DALE,Associated Press MICHAEL RUBINKAM,Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The search for victims of a building collapse that killed six people wound down Thursday, and the first civil lawsuit was filed amid mounting questions about whether the demolition company that was tearing down the structure caused the tragedy by cutting corners.
Stock market has best day in nearly 3 weeks
Written by MATTHEW CRAFT,AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — An afternoon rally on Wall Street gave the stock market its best day in nearly three weeks Thursday.