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McCarthy, the current Majority Leader, had been the favorite ahead of Thursday's closed-door vote by House Republicans.

The suicide bomb hit a major marketplace in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad.

NPR's Jon Hamilton, who is reporting on the story for our Newscast unit, says the apology comes in response to an independent report commissioned by the APA itself.

The Obama administration said it needed to cut funding for the towers — mostly in small communities — because of $637 million in budget cuts mandated by law.

Kenya's Rita Jeptoo won the women's race. It's her second victory at Boston. Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa won on the men's side. It's his first victory at Boston.

For 20 straight seasons now, the University of Connecticut Huskies have gotten at least as far as the Sweet 16. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt and UCLA were bounced out by lower-seeded teams.

As the clock ticks, a resolution to stop steep spending cuts and tax increases seems far away. Republicans and Democrats seemed to be sticking to their guns.

"Powerless," "clueless," "dismaying." Those are just some of the words being used as Indians rant about the massive outages that have hit the nation this week.

For the second month in a row, the Republican challenger and his party brought in more than the president and his fellow Democrats.

While the current president has gone golfing much more often than his predecessor, he lags far behind two other former occupants of the White House.