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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 11:00am

(AP) — Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is back as the U.S. men's national team coach and ready for another run at Olympic gold.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:58am

(AP) — A top European Central Bank official is calling for quick creation of an agency with powers to restructure and wind down busted banks, in an apparent pushback against Germany's insistence that such fundamental changes should take time.

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(AP) — A newly discovered novel by the late Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck is to be released this fall.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:58am

(AP) — Wrestling's governing body has "reacted well" and made the necessary changes to give the sport a chance of saving its place in the Olympics, IOC President Jacques Rogge said.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:56am

(AP) — Writer Chinua Achebe is being remembered in Nigeria as a fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure.

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(AP) — Nick Carter isn't only writing songs — he's written a book.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:51am

(AP) — Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians — descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago — and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:44am

(AP) — In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:44am

(AP) — Two men accused of butchering a British soldier had been investigated previously by security services, a British official said Thursday, as investigators searched several locations and tried to determine whether the men were part of a wider plot to instill terror on the streets of London.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:43am

(AP) — Stocks fell in early trading, extending a sell-off that began Wednesday afternoon, after Chinese manufacturing unexpectedly contracted and on concern that the Federal Reserve may ease back on its stimulus program.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:41am

(AP) — Average rates on fixed mortgage rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:40am

(AP) — A band of thunderstorms battered the Oklahoma City area Thursday, slowing cleanup operations in the suburb where a tornado killed 24 people and destroyed thousands of homes this week.

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(AP) — Lea Michele has stories to share about the many auditions she has passed.

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(AP) — Reading, writing, 'rithmetic — and PE?

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:27am

(AP) — An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:25am

(AP) — La Scala's manager says the 2013-14 season will have three fewer operas than usual due to the economic crisis.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:23am

(AP) — Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:21am

(AP) — The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:21am

(AP) — An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

Posted on May 23, 2013 at 10:19am

(AP) — U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War.