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    PRUDEN: Obama's indifference to incompetence regarding Benghazi

    There's an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It's in the DNA.

  • Amanda Berry (right) is reunited with her sister Beth Serrano in a Cleveland hospital Monday after she was reported missing a decade ago. (Berry Family handout via Associated Press)

    HAGELIN: Amanda Berry shows the power of a mother's love

    Amanda Berry gave birth to a daughter, Jocelyn, during her hidden years. More than a few people have speculated that having a daughter may have given Amanda Berry the strength and courage to attempt to escape. We may never really know. But Amanda's love for, and pride in, her daughter are moving.

  • Manchester United's manager Sir Alex Ferguson, bottom centre, grasps the English Premier League Trophy as he celebrates with his team after his last home game in charge of the club, their English Premier League soccer match against Swansea, at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Sunday May 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

    Manchester United sends Alex Ferguson out a winner at Old Trafford

    It was the end of an era at Manchester United on Sunday as Ferguson coached his final home match for a club he has led for nearly 27 years. And he had a 38th piece of major silverware to celebrate.

  • Voice of Charlie Brown sentenced for threatening ex-girlfriend

    What a blockhead. The man behind the voice of Charlie Brown in the special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," was sentenced Wednesday in a San Diego courtroom on charges of stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend and her plastic surgeon.

  • ** FILE ** TSA agents check passenger identification at a security gate on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    Terror watch list grows to 875,000

    The number of names in a secret U.S. database of suspected terrorists has swollen to 875,000 from 540,000 only five years ago, in part because of rule changes introduced after al Qaeda's failed underwear bomb plot in 2009.

  • Michael Jackson back in spotlight as civil trial begins

    Michael Jackson's words and music rang through a courtroom once again on Monday — this time at the start of wrongful death trial — as a lawyer tried to show jurors the pop singer's loving relationship with his mother and children.

  • (L to R) Larry Bryggman as Lyman Wyeth, Helen Carey as Polly Wyeth, Emily Donahoe as Brooke Wyeth, Scott Drummond as Trip Wyeth and Martha Hackett as Silda Grauman in Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theaters production of Other Desert Cities April 26-May 26, 2013. Photo by Scott Suchman.

    Get Out: The week's pocket picks in DC

    Wine: Cruise to St. Michaels Wine Fest Theater: 'Other Desert Cities' Concert: Washington Jewish Music Festival Gala: A Night Out with the Millennium Network Theater: Gilgamesh

  • ** FILE ** Investigators work at the site of an explosion near a cafe in the town of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, southern Russia, on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2011. An explosive-laden car exploded near the White Nights cafe in the town of Khasavyurt in Dagestan, killing and wounding several persons. The town borders Chechnya, where two conflicts with the federal government in Moscow fueled the rise of Islamic militancy in the Northern Caucasus region. (AP Photo/Ruslan Alibekov, NewsTeam)

    Chechnya terror groups and ties to Al Qaeda

    On Oct. 23, 2002, members of the battalion, along with two other Chechen groups seized more than 800 hostages at Moscow's Dubrovka Theater in a dramatic debut for the previously unknown group.

  • Postal Service worried by 'unsustainable path'

    As the agency teeters on the brink of insolvency, leaders of the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday once again took their pleas for help to Capitol Hill.

  • This image from a Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security joint bulletin issued to law enforcement and obtained by The Associated Press, shows the remains of a pressure cooker that the FBI says was part of one of the bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)

    Authorities find pressure cooker lid, part of bombs used in Boston, officials say

    The deadly bombs that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday were fashioned from large pressure cookers packed with nails and ball bearings and hidden in black bags on the ground, said FBI investigators and a U.S. official briefed on the investigation.

  • Medical workers aid injured people at the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. Two explosions shattered the euphoria of the Boston Marathon finish line on Monday, sending authorities out on the course to carry off the injured while the stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site of the blasts. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, David L Ryan)

    Ex-bin Laden hunter says Boston bombing shows signs of sophistication, training

    Monday's bomb attack on the Boston Marathon showed a "level of sophistication or training" in the construction and placement of the weapons that could complicate the identification of the culprits, said a former FBI agent who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

  • Sen. Joe Manchin III (right), West Virginia Democrat, accompanied by Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, announces on Wednesday, April 10, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington that they have reached a bipartisan deal on expanding background checks to more gun buyers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Gun-rights leader: 'We snookered the other side' on Toomey-Manchin

    A prominent gun-rights advocate claims his group's staff was in the room during the drafting of the recently unveiled proposal to expand gun-purchase background checks and said that "we snookered the other side — they haven't figured it out yet."

  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Forgive record 'scars'

    The once-brilliant American workforce is permanently scarring itself out of work. Recent headlines suggest 90 million Americans are either out of a job or have given up looking for work altogether. This dismal figure is approximately 28.7 percent of the current U.S. population of 313,900,000.

  • President Obama

    PRUDEN: A useful pipeline spill in Arkansas

    It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and a pipeline leaking on somebody else's front yard can be a godsend, too. The environmentalists who were waging a losing war against the proposed Keystone pipeline woke up to the news of a small pipeline leak in Arkansas and thought it was Christmas morning.

  • ** FILE ** Painted Easter eggs are available in a supermarket in Antwerp, Belgium. Demand for eggs reaches its peak around Easter. The industry has been hit hard by the European Union's mandatory use of animal-friendly cages for hens since the beginning of the year. (Associated Press)

    Alabama school lifts ban on 'Easter'

    An Alabama school district has lifted a ban it had previously on any religious references, including the words "Easter" and "Christmas."

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