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  • Rose Ragona, a 51-year-old operations supervisor at O’Hare, was diagnosed with breast cancer and recently had a mastectomy where surgeons saved much of her skin and started reconstruction during the same surgery. “To wake up and just see your breasts there helped me immensely,” she said.

    Women have new options for breast cancer surgery May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more options, faster treatment, smaller scars, fewer long-term side effects and better cosmetic results.

     
  • Actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure.

    How and why of Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie announced on Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene that significantly raised her risk of breast cancer. Here's a crash course in the procedure Jolie had and why.

     
  • Actress Angelina Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday's New York Times where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. She says she's kept the process private but is writing about it now with hopes she can help other women.

    Angelina Jolie says she had double mastectomy May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. "My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," Jolie writes in a New York Times Op-Ed piece. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."

     
  • Dr. Kermit Gosnell is escorted to a waiting police van upon leaving the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Monday after being convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies delivered alive and then killed.

    Convicted abortion doctor gets life in prison May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies born alive at his grimy clinic was spared a possible death sentence Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors. Dr. Kermit Gosnell gave up his right to appeal and in return will spend life in prison. Gosnell, 72, was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's abortion debate.

     
  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington Tuesday. Holder said he’s ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny.

    Justice to investigate IRS targeting of tea party May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea party groups for extra scrutiny over whether they qualified for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Tuesday.

     
  • Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced Tuesday he won’t seek a second term as leader of the financially troubled city, which recently became the largest in the country placed under state oversight.

    Bing won’t seek re-election as Detroit mayor May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced Tuesday he won't seek a second term as leader of the financially troubled city, which recently became the largest in the country placed under state oversight.

     

  • Police: Man, 19, sought in New Orleans parade shootings May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    New Orleans police and federal authorities were searching early Tuesday for a young man who is suspected of opening fire at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, wounding 19.

     

  • Senators argue over immigration bill ID mandates May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Senators weighing a landmark immigration bill defeated an effort by Republicans Tuesday to require biometric identification — such as fingerprinting — to track who is entering and leaving the country.

     
  • As his government is slashing welfare benefits and hiking takes for the working class to overcome a huge deficit, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finding himself under fire again for his lavish lifestyle.

    Israeli leader under fire for costly lifestyle May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Israel's prime minister is under fire for a costly lifestyle at taxpayers' expense, just as his government is slashing welfare benefits and raising taxes to cope with a huge budget deficit.

     
  • Darlin Lexima shows a scar covering his collar bone which he says was inflicted by a police beating as he stands outside his home at Camp Acra in the Delmas district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Lexima, 21, was arrested by police early April 15 when he was walking home from a disco club, as residents at his camp were protesting a raid by motorcyclists who set fire to their homes.

    Eviction fears haunt Haiti camp after arson, death May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Attorney Reynold Georges showed up on a recent afternoon up at a Haitian refugee camp of some 30,000 people to say they were squatting on his land and had to leave, witnesses said. In the few weeks since the mid-April confrontation, their plight has become a symbol for what many say is the growing use of threats and sometimes outright violence to clear out sprawling displaced person camps, where some 320,000 Haitians still live after the 2010 earthquake.

     
  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie talks to Britain’s Prince Harry while visiting the area hit by Superstorm Sandy, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Prince Harry began a tour of New Jersey’s storm-damaged coastline, inspecting dune construction, walking past destroyed homes and shaking hands with police and other emergency workers. New Jersey sustained about $37 billion worth of damage from the storm. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, Pool)

    Prince Harry tours storm-damaged NJ shore May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Britain's Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism and philanthropy.

     
  • O.J. Simpson stands up to leave the courtroom after the first day of an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court, Monday, May 13, 2013 in Las Vegas. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine to 33-year sentence in state prison as a result of his.

    OJ back in Vegas court as lawyers mount new trial bidMay 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    O.J. Simpson is back in a Las Vegas courtroom for day two of a hearing dissecting his former lawyer’s work in his 2008 robbery-kidnapping conviction. Simpson’s lawyers asked the judge on Tuesday to let the shackled former football star and actor have one hand free so he can take notes and sip water while a Nevada judge hears evidence that the 65-year-old deserves a new trial. The judge agreed.

     
  • National Transportation Safety Board Chair Deborah Hersman, seen here at a news conference on Feb. 7, said recently “Alcohol-impaired deaths are not accidents, they are crimes. They can and should be prevented. The tools exist. What is needed is the will.”

    Tougher drunken driving threshold weighed May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries.

     
  • A wind turbine farm owned by PacifiCorp stands near Glenrock, Wyo., Monday, May 6, 2013. Wind farms owned by the company, with clusters of turbines as tall as 30-story buildings and spinning rotors the size of jetliners, have killed at least 20 eagles in the state, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.

    Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind. But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted - even though every death is a criminal violation.

     
  • The family of slain 8-year-old girl Leila Fowler. Leila’s father, Barney Fowler, center, stands with Leila’s mother Crystal Walters, right, at his shoulder. Fowler says he believes 12-year-old son, who was arrested in the stabbing death of his 8-year-old sister, is innocent until he is shown evidence that proves otherwise.

    Dad wants evidence in girl’s stabbing May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    The father of a 12-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his 8-year-old sister said he'll believe his son is innocent until he sees evidence that proves otherwise. Barney Fowler told The Associated Press the family is backing the boy, who was arrested Saturday after a crime that terrified this Central California foothill community. "Until they have the proper evidence to show it's my son, we're standing behind him," Fowler said.

     
  • U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a stern warning Tuesday to Syria’s government, saying that new help will be given to opposition forces should President Bashar Assad’s regime decide to back out of upcoming negotiations aimed at ending Syria’s two-year war.

    Kerry expects Syrians to attend transition talks May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued a stern warning Tuesday to Syria's government, saying that new help will be given to opposition forces should President Bashar Assad's regime decide to back out of upcoming negotiations aimed at ending Syria's two-year war. Kerry said he has every expectation that both sides in the conflict, which has left more than 70,000 dead, will participate in an international conference to negotiate a peaceful transition in Syria.

     
  • The IRS apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was “inappropriate” targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see whether they were violating their tax-exempt status. In some cases, the IRS acknowledged, agents inappropriately asked for lists of donors. The agency blamed low-level employees in a Cincinnati office, saying no high-level officials were aware.

    IRS chief: Agency lacked sensitivity in screenings May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking tax-exempt status, but he said those mistakes won't be repeated. In his first public comment on the case, Steven Miller said there was "a shortcut taken in our processes" for determining which groups needed special screening.

     
  • A monument to Russian revolutionary workers with the U.S. flag and the U.S. Embassy in the background seen in downtown Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Russia’s security services said Tuesday that they detained a U.S. diplomat they claim is a CIA agent after they caught him red-handed trying to recruit a Russian agent.

    U.S. diplomat ordered to leave Russia in spy case May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    A U.S. diplomat was ordered Tuesday to leave the country after the Kremlin's security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent, and they displayed tradecraft tools that seemed straight from a cheap spy thriller: wigs, packets of cash, a knife, map and compass, and a letter promising millions for "long-term cooperation."

     

  • Fond du Lac professor helps study Marine suicides May 14, 2013 12:00 AM
    A Fond du Lac professor will help study the rising suicide rate among U.S. Marines. Janet McCord is an associate professor of thanatology in Marian University's School of Nursing and Health Professions. She has been trained by the American Association of Suicidology to study the psychological aspect of suicide.

     

  • Bloodless bank heist impressed cybercrime experts May 13, 2013 12:00 AM
    A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack. "It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday.

     
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